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A new video has emerged showing British journalist and ISIS hostage John Cantlie.
The footage, which was released today through ISIS' 'official' news agency Amaq, shows him looking worryingly thin as he discusses coalition airstrikes on Mosul.
Cantlie, 45, who was kidnapped by ISIS in November 2012, is shown criticising the US-led coalition for bombing Mosul University in the ISIS-held city in Iraq.
A Tory-dominated committee of MPs has delivered a scathing critique of radical government proposals to reform children’s services, saying they fail to tackle the core problems faced by social workers and could make services worse.
The Commons education select committee said key parts of the Children and Social Work bill, currently being debated in the House of Lords, contained significant weaknesses and were potentially detrimental to the social work profession.
The government’s Prevent strategy aimed at combating homegrown terrorism is stifling freedom of expression within the classroom and risks being counterproductive, a human rights report warns.
Children as young as four are being wrongly identified as having been radicalised simply because of the way they pronounce words or because of clothes they wear, the study by Rights Watch UK alleges.
Questions about the integrity of the voting process in which Anglicans narrowly rejected a resolution to allow same-sex marriage emerged Tuesday, and led to a stunning reversal of the result.
Some members stood up to say their votes had not been recorded during voting late Monday, when passage of the resolution failed by a single vote.
"That is an issue of concern," said Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the church. "We cannot leave this synod with this kind of confusion."
A second Orthodox Jewish school in Stamford Hill has been criticised by Ofsted for failing to teach about same-sex relationships.
Beis Malka Girls’ School, an independent girls’ school with 482 pupils aged two to 16, has made improvements and “worked hard” to meet statutory requirements, the schools’ watchdog found following an emergency inspection in April.
On Tuesday (5th July) we told you that Salisbury is getting its first ever Pride Parade at the end of the month, and now Spire FM can exclusively reveal that this inaugural event has now got the backing of Salisbury Cathedral.
Organisers at the Salisbury LGBT+ group are clearly incredibly excited to be receiving support from the Salisbury Diocese and the Church of England.
Students are watching Isil videos showing beheadings in college as they break through firewalls while lecturers turn a blind eye, inspectors have warned.
The warning emerged as a new study showed close to half of colleges lack enough 'safeguards' to keep students safe online.
Teachers at a school in Germany have stormed out of a graduation ceremony after a Muslim student refused to shake hands with the female principal.
The student at the Kurt-Tucholsky School in Hamburg, whose name has not been disclosed, was initially approached by his class mistress at an end-of-year graduation ceremony for A students. She offered to shake his hand to congratulate him on successfully passing exams, but he refused, the Hamburg Morning Post reports, and offered his covered wrist instead.
'I'm a gay woman with strong northern working-class roots,' Angela Eagle told Robert Peston on Sunday. 'I think I’m the right person for this job at this time.' In case we didn’t get the point she followed it up this morning by boasting: 'I'm a northern working-class girl who understands modern life.'
Trust is one of the few commodities that you can't get more of by spending money and you can't regain it once it's been lost. When a relationship loses that fundamental belief in each other's reliability then there's almost nothing you can do to save it.