A new Working Time Directive has been approved by MEPs, but European bishops have criticized the fact that it does not offer protection to workers from working on Sundays.
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December 22nd, 2008
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December 22nd, 2008
A former UN medical director questioned by police after accompanying a 75-year-old woman to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland will not face prosecution for assisting in her suicide, The Independent has learnt.
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December 22nd, 2008
How religious scientists explain their beliefs.
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December 22nd, 2008
The government has launched a consultation into proposals for a new monitoring scheme to protect patients who have made a 'living will' or no longer have the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves.
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December 22nd, 2008
A recent survey carried out on Nurses.co.uk showed that only 20.9% of UK nurses think that assisted suicide should be legalised here.
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December 22nd, 2008
Children as young as 11 are being handed free condoms and emergency contraceptives in school?without their parents' knowledge, it emerged yesterday.
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December 21st, 2008
Overweight and obese women have as much chance of having a baby through fertility treatment as normal weight women, a Scottish study suggests.
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December 21st, 2008
Ministers are coming under growing pressure from Labour MPs to disestablish the Church of England.
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December 21st, 2008
People are anxious. They are anxious about their jobs and whether they will be able to keep a roof over their heads. They worry about their savings and their pensions.
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December 21st, 2008
Emergency state loans given to the poorest people in the UK could cease to be interest free, under changes being considered by ministers.