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McCain and Obama take science test | Print |  Email
Both candidates have answered the key questions on contentious issues put to them by America's scientists. Who gets top marks?   Guardian
 
Pope defends WWII pontiff's role | Print |  Email
Pope Benedict XVI has defended the actions of predecessor Pius XII during World War II, saying the pontiff spared no effort to try to save Jews.   BBC News
 
Chimpanzees used for medical testing 'show signs of torture' | Print |  Email
Chimpanzees subjected to medical experiments suffer similar psychiatric symptoms to those shown by tortured humans, according to a recent study.   The Independent.
 
Royal Society's Michael Reiss resigns over creationism row | Print |  Email
he Royal Society’s embattled director of education resigned last night, days after causing uproar among scientists by appearing to endorse the teaching of creationism.   The Times.
 
Revealed: UK’s first official sharia courts | Print |  Email
ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases, writes Abul Taher .   The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence. 
 
Government delivers a new clutch of children to the evangelists | Print |  Email
As the new school year starts, many more children will have been enrolled into 'faith schools'. This is because the Government has ensured that there are increasing numbers of such schools. Indeed, The Times Educational Supplement revealed that it has been permitting the transfer of community schools into the hands of the Church at an increasing rate, often without the necessary tendering procedures that it created in the first place.
 
The Pope's Purpose in France | Print |  Email
Though some 75 % of French citizens are baptized, regular mass attendance is edging below 10%. Even Church weddings have dropped, from 147,000 in 1990 to 89,000 in 2006. Indeed, the most notable new religious energy in the country is increasingly coming from a growing Muslim community, reports Jeff Israely in Time Magazine
 
Scotland's role in the search for the origins of the universe | Print |  Email
THE TECHNOLOGY used in the search for the "God particle", which got under way in Switzerland last week, should have radical implications for how cancer is treated in Scotland, according to one of the top scientists involved in the project, writes Edd McCracken in The Sunday Herald
 
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