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Almost one in three clergy and lay members of the Church of England’s ruling body have signed a letter to bishops urging them to unequivocally welcome lesbian and gay Christians into the church.
Bishops are meeting on Monday to discuss what the church should do following two years of internal debate about sexuality, an issue that has caused deep divisions and threats of splits.
Children should be taught Buddhist meditation techniques and yoga in schools to help them "unplug from their online world", a minister has said.
Edward Timpson, an education minister, said that schools across the country should start teaching "mindfulness" as a "normal part of the school day".
The meditative practice, which has its roots in Buddhism, encourages people to focus on the present, rather than on the anxieties of the past or future.
Security experts are struggling to stop the spread of extremist messages on the internet despite taking down 1,000 videos a week, the Home Secretary has admitted.
Amber Rudd said she was in talks with social media websites about setting up a new industry standard board to agree the rules setting out when sites should be taken down.
Humans should be "very careful" about developing intimate relationships with robots, experts have warned.
The Human Choice and Computers Conference, held on Wednesday, will study the question of technology and intimacy and examine whether humans could ever fall in love with a robot.
Women are choosing to freeze their eggs to gain time to find the right partner rather than to pursue their careers, new research suggests.
Based on interviews with 31 heterosexual women who had frozen their eggs for non-medical reasons, researchers discovered that the greatest motivation was because the women said they had not found the right man to father their child.
A gold-medal-winning Paralympian says she is considering euthanasia after competing in the 2016 Rio Games, which started Wednesday with the opening ceremonies.
Marieke Vervoort, a Belgian wheelchair sprinter who suffers from an incurable degenerative spinal malady, told France 2 she is constantly in pain and requires around-the-clock treatment.
The formal links between the Church of England and prisons are strongly embedded in legislation and constitutional practice, despite changing patterns of religious practice in society. Despite this, Peter Phillips argues, the isolation of many prison chaplains from the mainstream of the church has prevented the Church of England from raising ethical and practical prison concerns in the public forum.
Michael Gove's flagship prison reform plan could be under threat after the Justice Secretary Liz Truss refused to commit to new legislation.
Appearing before the Justice select committee Ms Truss, the new Minister, appeared to row back from the Prison Reform Bill promised by the Government and supported by David Cameron during the Queen's speech.
The Dublin crisis pregnancy agency exposed in an undercover investigation by The Times should be prosecuted for giving women bad advice, Simon Harris has said.
In a strong intervention, the health minister said that he believed the Women’s Centre at 9 Berkeley Street in Dublin 7 had broken the law when it told an undercover reporter that abortion causes breast cancer and turns women into child abusers.
Instead of seeing the clear blue water of the swimming pool, this swimmer sees only sheer blackness, with a small blue circle in the middle. This is how McClain Hermes describes what she sees in the pool.
However, this does not deter this 15-year-old girl from Dacula, Georgia from showing her God-given talent in swimming. She is currently in Rio de Janeiro representing the United States in the 2016 Paralympic Games where she will compete in the 100 breaststroke, 400 freestyle and 100 backstroke events.