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Earlier in July, athletes from all over the world travelled to Italy to take part in the Trisome Games, an event unlike any other.
Every competitor had Down's Syndrome.
It was the first international sports event of its kind and was organised by the Sports Union for Athletes with Down's Syndrome (SU-DS).
Twelve riot police cars have arrived to crack down on the sit-down protest in Paris’s 15th district, as dozens demonstrate against the demolition of the local Church of Sainte Rita. Many took to social networks to vent over the situation.
The church has been mined and the demolition is ready to begin, but the protesters - some of them local councilors - refuse to leave. Videos of police dragging protesters emerged online.
The High Court has told the NHS in England it can fund a drug that can prevent HIV - after health bosses argued it was not their responsibility.
NHS England previously said councils should provide the pre-exposure prophylaxis (Prep) drug as they are in charge of preventative health.
The Archbishop of Dublin has signalled that he wants to permanently remove all clerical students from the seminary system following anonymous allegations of gay sex and misconduct at St Patrick’s College in Maynooth.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin criticised the full-time training process yesterday and said that students studying for the priesthood were better off “outside the closed, strange world of seminaries”.
Same-sex marriage will soon be endorsed in Northern Ireland as public support overwhelms opposition to it, the openly gay leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said.
Ruth Davidson was speaking in Belfast on Tuesday at the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pride week.
Scotland’s Deputy First Minister John Swinney has warned local authorities that state guardians can only offer optional advice, after last week’s Supreme Court judgment on the Named Person scheme.
A statement released at the weekend urges local authorities and health boards to “take care to reiterate the voluntary nature of any advice, information, support or help offered by the ‘named person’”.
A MUSLIM school accused of stocking books advocating violence against women and undermining British values is locked in a legal battle to prevent publication of a damning report.
An Ofsted inspection judged the unnamed school to be “inadequate” - the lowest rank available - and criticised it for segregating boys and girls.
A member of the House of Lords has written to Enda Kenny warning him against reforming the law on abortion, saying that it would harm the rights of disabled people.
Kevin Shinkwin, a Conservative peer, wrote to the taoiseach on June 22, asking him to stop a bill which would legalise abortion in cases where the foetus had no medical chance of surviving. It aimed to allow abortion only in cases when an anomaly was fatal, and not when the foetus was diagnosed with a disability.
While she was home secretary, Theresa May set up an independent inquiry into the operation of Islamic law in the UK as administered by Sharia courts or councils. One witness due to appear before the inquiry was Professor Elham Manea of Zurich university. She is a widely respected expert on Sharia, a Muslim and a campaigner for women’s rights. A few days ago, however, she decided not to give evidence after all.
Brought to London by the Brussels-based European Foundation for Democracy, she said she believed the inquiry would whitewash Sharia. Instead of investigating whether Sharia courts undermined justice and human rights, the inquiry’s terms of reference suggested a prior objective to expand the reach of Islamic law in Muslim communities with a few cosmetic tweaks.
Heterosexual couples can form civil partnerships as an alternative to traditional marriage in the British Isles for the first time after a change in the law on the Isle of Man.
New legislation which has just come into force on the Island - a crown dependency separate from but closely tied to the UK - will create new pressure in mainland Britain for straight couples to be allowed to form legally recognised partnerships.