Britain’s jails facing ‘growing problem’ of forced conversion to Islam, officers warn The Prison Officers Union has said that Muslim gangs are growing in power in Britain’s jails, leading to…
With new guidelines unlikely to liberalise strict Northern Irish abortion laws, the cases of two women highlight the pain and suffering inflicted by entrenched ethical positions, says Anna Vesterinen
Campaigners demonstrate that faith schools are failing to reflect the demographics of their areas, with potentially damaging consequences for community cohesion
Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray Anthropologists working in Georgia have unearthed a skull dating from the Pleistocene period, and believe it may indicate that…
US Congress approves debt deal The US Congress has passed a bill to reopen the government and raise the federal debt limit, with hours to spare before the nation risked…
It may come as a surprise to those opposed to "soul-destroying" violent video games to find that some of the most violent ones are far from diabolical.
Extreme weather can be the ‘most important cause of poverty’ New research suggests that extreme weather events will keep people poor in many parts of the world. The researchers say…
Monday's court decision to ban a Catholic magazine from using the word 'Allah' is just the latest development in Malaysia's quest to spare its Muslim citizens from offence.
The Environment Secretary is wrong to call opponents of Golden Rice "wicked", because it closes down a very necessary debate, writes Nathan Oxley
Key Iran nuclear talks begin in Geneva World powers have begun their first nuclear negotiations with Iran since Hassan Rouhani became the country’s president in August. Mr Rouhani has said…
Pakistanis have reason to mistrust the actions of governments, but this risks obscuring a very real need to fight for education and against extremism, writes Samira Shackle
Christian newspaper must not use the word “Allah”, rules court in Malaysia Three Muslim judges in Malaysia’s appeals court ruled that the word is specific to Muslims and may not…
National Secular Society warns about growing incursion of evangelical Christians into state schools.
Tate Britain’s history of physical attacks on art in this country begins in the sixteenth century with the Reformation. There is nothing, for instance, about what happened to all the…
Iran arrests “network of homosexuals and satanists” The news website of the revolutionary guards in Kermanshah province, home to the country’s Kurd ethnic minority, reported on Thursday that their elite…