At Manchester Crown Court yesterday Abid Hussain was convicted of assault and making threats to kill, received a suspended sentence of nine months.… Read the rest

A 16-year-old in the Dominican Republic has been denied chemotherapy for acute leukemia because the aggressive treatment could kill her fetus.… Read the rest

Secular circumcision has been declining in Britain in the decades since doctors ceased to extol its allegedly “hygienic” effects, much cherished by Victorians.… Read the rest

The pictures are of earthquake victims.… Read the rest

She has saved tens of thousands of lives in her hospital, while providing an education to hundreds of displaced children at the Waqaf-Dhiblawe school.… Read the rest

The claims are unsubstantiated, and they make no sense. Nice work, Mail on Sunday.… Read the rest

Don’t believe the hype, don’t believe in magic, be skeptical of claims for scientific support, and don’t waste money on expensive versions of products.… Read the rest

Cockburn pioneered the persona for which Hitchens became better known: the Oxford leftie litterateur/journalist who said what his bland Yank counterparts lacked the wit to utter on their own.… Read the rest

Beyond continuing a barbaric tradition – and one should never underestimate the appeal of doing what has always been done – FGM ensures that women remain the property of men.… Read the rest

Buddhist attacks on the Rohingya Muslims in Burma have picked up over the last few weeks following the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman in May.… Read the rest

Pakistan is one of only three remaining countries where polio is still endemic. The others are
Afghanistan and Nigeria.… Read the rest

“What I take to be the essence of liberalism is a belief that individual freedom and personal autonomy are the fundamental moral goods.” Nope.… Read the rest

In Libya, rape is seen as an assault on a family and a community’s honor, not just a crime against an individual.… Read the rest

Alex Gabriel finds a Noah’s Ark display. It has charts and explanations and everything, very sciencey.… Read the rest

Three women now charge they were brainwashed at a St. Louis-area psychiatric  facility into believing that they had repressed memories of childhood sexual  abuse.… Read the rest

And joins Nick Matzke in trying to explain it to creationists on Facebook.… Read the rest

A team at Oxford examined 431 claims in 104 sport product adverts and found a “worrying” lack of high-quality research, calling for better studies to help inform consumers.… Read the rest

A landmark hearing at the Supreme Court in London will consider who is responsible for compensating victims of child abuse by Catholic priests.… Read the rest

Liberals think informed choice is a basic right, therefore Fraser regards “the liberal mindset as a diminished form of the moral imagination.”… Read the rest

A newspaper accuses the companies of funding the journalist to denigrate critics of homeopathy, especially Edzard Ernst.… Read the rest