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Will there be a new wave of Muslim state schools opening?
Is the best way to guard against radicalisation to make sure Muslim pupils are in religious state schools that are robustly regulated?
When the government unveiled its plans for schools in England, the headlines were taken by the controversy over grammars.
Sexting offences should usually be dealt with outside courts to spare young people a “full-on prosecution” and criminal record, the leader of the criminal bar has suggested.
Francis Fitzgibbon, QC, who has taken over as chairman of the 4,000-strong Criminal Bar Association, has said that there is an argument for removing cases where “young people are fooling about” from the trial process. They could be dealt with through “restorative justice”, where victims meet offenders — as long as victims consent.
Boys conceived by the most common type of IVF inherit their fathers’ fertility problems, the first study of its kind has found.
By the time they reached adulthood, men born with the help of the method had half the sperm count of men conceived naturally, researchers found. They were also four times as likely to have sperm counts below the normal range. The results suggest that genetic problems which contribute to men seeking fertility treatment are passed on. Researchers said these children could need to use IVF themselves.
Listen to the words of Hannah, who’s just eight, as she describes her parents’ divorce to a counsellor: ‘Sometimes, my parents talk on the phone and, sometimes, they text each other. At first, they are nice to each other but, by the end, they are shouting and fighting.
‘One parent takes us to the other one — we get dropped off at the corner shop. Mum doesn’t like Dad in her street and Mum isn’t allowed in Dad’s street.
‘I do speak on the phone with Dad when I’m not with him, but rarely, because Mum says she wants to save her credit, and Dad says he wants to save his credit as well.
Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury have publicly pledged to press on towards the full reunification of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches - while admitting they “do not yet see” a solution to differences over the female clergy and sexuality.
They insisted they were “undeterred” in their desire to heal the split between the two churches which emerged amid the convulsions of the Reformation, which began 500 years ago next year.
Asra Q. Nomani is a former Wall Street Journal reporter and a co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement. Masih Alinejad is a journalist and founder of My Stealthy Freedom, a campaign to oppose compulsory headscarves in Iran. Follow them on Twitter at @AsraNomani and @MasihPooyan.
Last week, FIDE, the international chess federation, quietly announced that Iran would host next year's Women’s World Chess Championship, which means contestants will have to cover their hair with scarves to comply with a “modesty” law fundamentalist clerics put in place after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
As British Grandmaster Nigel Short spread the news, expressing concern, the 2016 U.S. champion, Nazi Paikidze-Barnes, a Georgian American, made a morally courageous move: Paikidze said she would skip the competition rather than comply with a law that denies women and girls fundamental human rights.
European human rights chiefs have told the British press it must not report when terrorists are Muslim.
The recommendations came as part of a list of 23 meddling demands to Theresa May’s government on how to run the media in an alarming threat to freedom speech.
The report, drawn up by the Council of Europe's human rights watchdog, blamed the recent increase in hate crimes and racism in the UK on the 'worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians', although the research was done before the EU referendum campaign had even begun.
The number of British people defining themselves as “bisexual” has jumped by 45 per cent in just three years, according new official estimates.
For the first time, more young people in the UK describe themselves as bisexual than gay or lesbian combined, the figures from the Office for National Statistics show.
It is the latest evidence pointing to a shift in attitudes towards sexuality, with increasing numbers viewing their own position as somewhere on a spectrum rather than it being a black-or-white question.
Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Gowin has said proposals put before parliament for a near-total ban on abortion will not be implemented.
A citizens' bill backed by the Catholic Church aims to ban all abortions unless the mother's life is at risk.
State-run radio quoted Mr Gowin as saying that a nationwide protest on Monday against the proposals had given the government "food for thought".
Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has also distanced the government from the bill.
Legalising assisted dying in the UK is a question of when, not if - said panellists at a Conservative conference fringe event.
“This is the building liberal cause of the future,” declared Lord Finkelstein speaking at a fringe on assisted dying in the UK.