Lawsuit claims engravings at the entrance of the Capitol building in Washington would violate the constitution.
In the News
-
July 15th, 2009
-
July 15th, 2009
A drug dealer is appealing against her deportation on the grounds it will violate her human rights as a lesbian. The Jamaican argues she will be persecuted for her homosexuality if she is returned to her home country at the end of her sentence.
-
July 15th, 2009
Couples who shack up before tying the knot are more likely to get divorced than their counterparts who don't move in together until marriage, a new study suggests.
-
July 14th, 2009
There used to be things we never had to think about. It never crossed anyone's mind that marriage could be either wanted or accomplished by anyone except a man and a woman, and it isn't very long since divorce was very rare indeed, and everyone assumed that marriage was for life.
-
July 14th, 2009
Iran has reacted with outrage over the stabbing death of an Egyptian woman in a German courthouse, calling it a sign of racism against Muslims, yet has said little about China's crackdown on Uighur Muslims - a silence some leading Iranian clerics have criticized.
-
July 13th, 2009
The ethnically mixed Iraqi city of Mosul imposed a curfew on vehicles in Christian neighborhoods Monday, responding to a spate of bomb attacks targeting churches in Baghdad, police said.
-
July 13th, 2009
A drive to encourage more men in England to become primary school teachers will be launched later.
-
July 13th, 2009
Has there ever been a more preposterous figure than the Equalities Minister Harriet Harman? Scarcely a week goes by when she does not dream up another monumentally irrelevant yet intrusive or oppressive wheeze to make life in Britain that much more unjust and insufferable.
-
July 13th, 2009
The Church of England needs more bishops not fewer, its governing body heard.
-
July 13th, 2009
A Bristol nightclub where a teenager was shot dead has been turned into a church.