The chemical engineer escaped on a moonless night, fleeing from ISIS-held territory. As he crossed the front line, ISIS sentries shot at him. When he reached the other side, Iraqi soldiers also fired in his direction again—before allowing him to cross to safety.
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June 10th, 2016
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June 9th, 2016
A radical and risky stem cell therapy has been shown to halt and even reverse some of the symptoms of those worst affected by multiple sclerosis, a disease that in many people has proved untreatable.
Doctors in Canada conducted an experimental stem cell transplant with 24 patients who were expected to be confined to a wheelchair within 10 years. After receiving the treatment most of the patients regained control of their lives, becoming able to walk, play sport and drive.
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June 9th, 2016
Britain must stop forcing children to attend Christian school assemblies because it undermines their human rights, a United Nations committee has said in a controversial new report.
The authors called on ministers to repeal a law demanding a daily act of Christian worship at schools because it may contradict a child's "freedom of thought, conscience and religion".
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June 9th, 2016
Inadequate investigations are regularly being carried out into the circumstances surrounding the births of stillborn babies, children who die at less than a week old and those who suffer brain injuries during labour, according to government-funded research.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) found that reviews into such cases often excluded parents – in a quarter of cases they did not even know an investigation was taking place – and impartial experts.
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June 9th, 2016
The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment Thursday that would have required a Superior Court judge to approve requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide from individuals who are not near death.
Conservative Senator Claude Carignan’s proposed amendment was defeated 37 to 32, with four Senators abstaining, after four hours of debate.
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June 9th, 2016
A London imam has sued the BBC for libel over a broadcast which he says meant he was a member of a "rogue's gallery of extremists".
Shakeel Begg, chief imam at Lewisham Islamic Centre, has complained about a short segment of an interview on the Sunday Politics show in November 2013 featuring presenter Andrew Neil and Farooq Murad, then head of the Muslim Council of Britain.
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June 9th, 2016
Sex robots could become a staple of the bedroom within ten years as the devices become more lifelike and affordable, a leading computer scientist has warned.
Artificial Intelligence expert Noel Sharkey said teenagers risk losing their virginity to sophisticated humanoid robots unless the sector is properly regulated.
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June 9th, 2016
A new IVF-based technique 'is likely to lead to normal pregnancies and reduce the risk that babies born will have mitochondrial disease', according to researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Disease at Newcastle University.
Published on Wednesday 8 June 2016 in the journal Nature, scientists report the first in-depth analysis of human embryos created using a new ‘three-parent’ technique devised to reduce the risk of mothers passing on mitochondrial disease to their children.
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June 9th, 2016
Hindu extremists in India have beaten up and tortured 29 Christians who refused to deny their faith in Christ and convert to Hinduism.
They also destroyed several Christian homes and forced occupants to flee their village of Katholi, reported The Daily Express, which has been running a series on persecution of Christians around the world.
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June 9th, 2016
It seems like the homosexual lifestyle, clearly prohibited among Christians, has permeated American society.
The number of Americans who experimented with homosexual activities have doubled over the past 24 years, the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey (GSS) revealed.
Based on this poll, only 4.25 percent of Americans engaged in gay activities back in 1973. By 2014, this number alarmingly skyrocketed to 8.5 percent of the 28,000 survey respondents who openly shared their sexual experiences.