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Parents have reacted furiously after a Christian school removed a cross from its logo just two months after opening.
The religious symbol has been quietly taken off the badge of Oak CE Primary School in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, which only opened on May 3.
The school was created by Kirklees Council’s merger of Crosland Moor Junior, Dryclough Infants and Thornton Lodge nursery schools.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has backed inclusive sex education in schools – as rumours intensify she will run to be Prime Minister.
Nominations for the Conservative Party leadership contest close tomorrow, with an intense battle among top Tories aiming for the top spot – and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is now thought to be preparing to announce a bid.
India's supreme court has refused to hear a petition challenging a law criminalising gay sex, in a setback for activists battling in the country's courts to get the ban overturned.
A number of well-known lesbian, gay and bisexual Indians had argued that section 377 of India’s penal code, which prohibits "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal", undermined their fundamental rights by failing to protect their sexual preferences.
Christians in Russia won’t be allowed to email their friends an invitation to church or to evangelize in their own homes if Russia’s newest set of surveillance and anti-terrorism laws are enacted.
The proposed laws, considered the country’s most restrictive measures in post-Soviet history, place broad limitations on missionary work, including preaching, teaching, and engaging in any activity designed to recruit people into a religious group.
Incidents of anti-Muslim abuse and attacks in public areas rose by 326% in 2015, with women disproportionately targeted by mostly teenage perpetrators, according to a new report from the monitoring group Tell MAMA.
Turkey's prime minister has called a suicide blast at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul a "heinous planned attack" as the Foreign Office said it was "urgently seeking further information" about possible British casualties.
More than 36 people have been killed and a further 147 wounded in the attack which saw three suspected Islamic State (Isil) radicals arrive in a taxi and detonate explosives after they had opened fire.
Same-sex marriage has become a front-page issue in the final days of Australia's election campaign.
The ruling conservative Liberal Party has promised to hold a plebiscite on the issue if it returns to power at this weekend's election.
But questions remain over whether the party would abide by a result in favour of same-sex marriage.
A key member of the Scottish Government's child abuse inquiry has resigned, saying it is "doomed" by government interference.
Psychology professor Michael Lamb said there had been "repeated threats" to the independence of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
A Polish pro-life leader suggests that Amnesty International should change its name to “Abortion International” because of its actions against the unborn.
London-based Amnesty International (AI), founded in the 1960s to protect political prisoners, expressed its “concerns” regarding the proposed abortion ban in Poland. The group opposes the death penalty and torture and supports human rights but has a long track record of fighting for abortion all over the world.
Scientists have found two potential vaccine candidates that may help combat the Zika virus. A single shot of each vaccine was shown to completely protect mice against two strains of the mosquito-borne disease, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature. These shots still need to be tested on humans, but the researchers are hopeful that either could eventually prove to be a safe and effective Zika vaccine.