For decades, passport applicants have been required to provide details of their mother and father.
In the News
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October 3rd, 2011
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October 3rd, 2011The furore over the killing of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer for allegedly licentious behaviour is merely the latest and most extreme example of an appallingly divisive issue
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October 3rd, 2011A mob of several thousand Muslims from the village of Elmarinab in Edfu, Aswan province, demolished and torched St George's church, which was being renovated.
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October 3rd, 2011Yes, that’s right. Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York (and quite possibly the successor to the See of Canterbury), who loves and serves the Lord so much that he baptises Christians in public; who cares so deeply about truth and justice that he refuses to wear his dog collar again until Robert Mugabe is deposed, is, according to the ultra-normative LibDem Evan Harris, both ‘abnormal’ and a ‘fundie’.
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October 3rd, 2011The most popular contraceptive for women in eastern and southern Africa, a hormone shot given every three months, appears to double the risk the women will become infected with H.I.V., according to a large study published Monday. And when it is used by H.I.V.-positive women, their male partners are twice as likely to become infected than if the women had used no contraception.
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October 3rd, 2011Marriages are under a myriad of pressures. It has always been so, but never more so than today. Although divorce rates are falling this is primarily because fewer couples are getting married in the first place. So any additional sources of instability should be examined closely and challenged whenever possible. One particularly troubling case is that of Global Personals. They are a very successful online dating company who:
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October 3rd, 2011There was an uproar in New Zealand recently about sex education when a father told the NZ Herald he had pulled his son out of sex education because the teacher had told his class that anal and oral sex were alternatives to intercourse and that it was okay to play with a girl's private parts as long as she consented. The boy was only 12. His class was also told to lie on the floor and imagine that the whole word way gay. Other parents came up with their own horror stories.
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October 3rd, 2011Tax breaks for married couples must be implemented before the next election as David Cameron promised, Iain Duncan Smith will insist today.
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October 2nd, 2011Like thousands of mothers around the country, Kerry Holmes choked back the tears last month when saying goodbye to her four-year-old son on his first day at primary school. But 26-year-old Kerry had more reason than most to feel overwhelmed with pride and emotion.
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October 2nd, 2011AN author is believed to have killed himself with a “euthanasia kit” bought on the internet.