Two terminally ill Scots are being vetted for a journey to Swiss clinics for an assisted suicide.
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December 14th, 2008
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December 13th, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury is to address a gathering of young drinkers in a Cardiff city centre bar.
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December 13th, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI spoke out against artificial fertilisation, designer babies, embryonic stemcell research, human cloning and drugs which block pregnancy from taking hold.
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December 13th, 2008
A new staging of the Brothers Grimm classic, featuring children's corpses hanging in an abattoir-like larder, is to be shown on Christmas Day.
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December 13th, 2008
This week UNICEF warned of the dangers to British children in driving mothers back to work. Who will defend the family?
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December 13th, 2008
A Government consultation has been launched into the regulation of Islamic finance in the UK.
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December 12th, 2008
The government hopes the joint Treasury-Financial Services Authority consultation on proposals for a legal framework for the regulation of alternative finance investment bonds, including sukuk, will support the growth of Islamic finance in the UK and to increase its position as a leading global centre in this market.
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December 12th, 2008
Luxembourg's parliament yesterday moved to curtail the powers of the country's monarch, Grand Duke Henri, after he refused to sign a euthanasia bill into law.
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December 12th, 2008
The Vatican has updated its opposition to embryonic stem-cell research, in-vitro fertilisation and human cloning in a sweeping new document.
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December 12th, 2008
An Essex school choir has been banned from singing Christmas carols at a festive celebration because organisers wanted to "remove any religious content", it has been claimed.