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Schools report shows need to end religious discrimination, says coalition |
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Accord's member bodies, who include the Christian think-tank Ekklesia, the teaching union ATL and the British Humanist Association say that in this respect a number of schools and other educational bodies, including religious foundation ones, seem to have been acting with lack of ethical rigour and against the public interest, reports Ekklesia |
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YouTube For Islamic Extremists |
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
AqsaTube looks similar to its more conventional counterpart and works along the same lines but its content is very different.
There are no performing pets or dancing tourists. Instead, for instance, it features videos from Hamas' military wing, the Al Qassem Brigades, reports reports Dominic Waghorn, Middle East correspondent of Sky News |
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Archbishop chalks up new academy |
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
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Dr John Sentamu officially opened the Archbishop Sentamu Academy in East Hull saying his dream had become a reality as he toured the Hopewell Road site. It is one of six Church of England academies to open in the UK this term. A further 14 have been agreed with another 40 under discussion, according to BBC News |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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Trailer for 'Religulous', the new comedy documentary by Larry Charles, the director of Borat. "Coming to a screen near you this fall" if you're in the USA, or some time later than that if you're in the UK. Click here to view |
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Zimbabwe riot police use violence to quell fresh protests |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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Four students were injured when they tried to deliver a petition to Parliament in Harare protesting at the failure of most of the country’s universities to open at the start of the new academic year. Three, including the president of the Zimbabwe National Students Union, were arrested. It was the first such heavy-handed action by police since President Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai signed a power-sharing agreement on September 15, reports The Times |
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New pain relief that is eight times stronger than morphine |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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The revolutionary technique involves an injection that can combat serious discomfort for more than three days - 14 times as long as morphine. The substance, which can be injected, appears to have few side effects and works by neutralising the chemical in the body that causes the brain to feel pain, reports Richard Alleyne Science Correspondent |
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Witches could get posthumous pardon for execution |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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More than 400 people were put to death in England for alleged witchcraft, and over 2,000 were executed in Scotland, before the 1735 Witchcraft Act put an end to the trials, campaigners said. Their bid to obtain justice for the victims follows an official pardon granted earlier this year by the Swiss Government to Anna Goeldi, beheaded in 1782 and regarded as the last person executed as a witch in Europe, according to The Daily Telegraph |
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The threats to our liberty just keep on coming |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
The forthcoming Communications Data Bill threatens to create a "super-database" which will store a host of information relating to the British population, ranging from our phone records, to emails sent, to the websites we have accessed. What confidence can we have that officials will be able protect this vast store of sensitive data from criminal infiltration, asks an editorial in The Independent
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