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

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

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

The pictures are of earthquake victims.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

And joins Nick Matzke in trying to explain it to creationists on Facebook.

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.

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

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

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