Faith schools dominate a league table of top primaries despite making up only a third of them nationally, it emerged yesterday.
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December 3rd, 2009
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December 3rd, 2009
Our trip to the toy shop on Saturday inspired more gasps of wonder than normal from my two-year-old son, when he clapped eyes on a traditional wooden Nativity scene in the midst of heaving shelves of Christmas goodies.
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December 3rd, 2009
Opponents of gay marriage celebrated a decisive vote in the New York State Senate, where a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage was defeated 38 to 24 on Wednesday.
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December 3rd, 2009
The Roman Catholic Church still regards homosexuality as an ?insult to God? and homosexuals and transsexuals will never go to Heaven, a leading cardinal said on Wednesday, prompting a rebuke from the Vatican.
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December 3rd, 2009
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Wednesday approved the first experiments on human embryonic stem cells under the Obama administration?s new research policy.
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December 3rd, 2009
Young women are increasingly requiring treatment for cocaine addiction after developing a drug habit in their teens or early twenties, figures suggest.
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December 3rd, 2009
Following a controversial Swiss referendum to ban mosques with minarets, Christian Democratic state interior ministers in Germany on Thursday recommended Muslims show restraint when building houses of worship.
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December 3rd, 2009
The Secretary of State for Communities is visiting London's East End this-afternoon on the first anniversary of the Government's campaign to tackle extremist violence and radicalism among Muslim youth.
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December 3rd, 2009
'What?s liberating about Islam is that one is spared from having to think.' This, essentially, is how a woman explained to me the change that had taken place in her life since her conversion to Islam. Since then, I?ve thought about her many times, especially because at that time I didn?t know very much about Islam. Now I?ve learned more, have gotten to know many more Muslims, and just begun to worry about her lack of thought.
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December 3rd, 2009
Irish abortion laws and sovereignty stand in the dock next week when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) hears a challenge to Ireland's constitutional protection of life 'from conception'.