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After the credit crunch, the oil crunch: watchdog warns over falling supplies | Print |  Email

The International Energy Agency is to call today for an energy revolution and a "major de-carbonisation" of global fuel sources as the world confronts tighter oil supplies caused by shrinking investment. The unprecedented wake-up call comes as the European commission says in a report due out tomorrow that while oilfields decline, the balance of supply and demand will become "increasingly tight, possibly critically so", writes David Gow in Brussels for The Guardian 

 
 
Hannah's choice | Print |  Email
Hannah Jones has refused the heart transplant that could save her life. But is a 13-year-old too young to make that decision? Or is she the only person who can? An interview with Patrick Barkham in The Guardian
 
Burma activists sentenced to 65 years each in draconian crackdown | Print |  Email
More than a dozen people arrested during the protests last year against the ruling junta were handed harsh prison terms yesterday. “Altogether 23 activists were sentenced today at Insein prison. They were sentenced to 65 years each,” a family member of one jailed activist said. Story by Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Correspondent of The Times
 
When a gay couple decided to adopt a baby boy, it was the start of a steep learning curve | Print |  Email
Adopting as a gay couple has been possible since 2005. When we first approached Tower Hamlets, our local council in East London, about adopting, they were at pains to point out that we would be treated like any other couple. The days of expecting gay adopters to take children who are “harder to place” (as the social worker vocabulary delicately puts it) were over. Another London borough I contacted had refused to consider us, apparently because its books were closed to white adopters. Whether that was true, or was because we are gay, is impossible to prove, writes Phil Reay-Smith in The Times.
 
The racism of our adoption rules | Print |  Email
Almost half a century ago, a friend of mine was the subject of what was then seen as a risky experiment. A black baby, she was adopted by a white couple. They lived in a remote rural area and, my friend now relates, "I thought I was the only black person in the whole of England". She also encountered racism even from those who were trying to offer praise. "It's amazing what you are achieving almost straight out of the jungle," one teacher informed her, writes Dominic Lawson in The Independent
 
Black, white or neither? The mixed race dilemma | Print |  Email
Barack Obama has identified himself as a ‘mutt'. We, too, should acknowledge our fastest-growing ethnic minority, writes David Aaronovitch in The Times
 
Bus Ad Questions Readers' Faith in God | Print |  Email
The American Humanist Association, located in Washington, will announce its "Godless Holiday Campaign" on Tuesday with ads on Metro buses and in newspapers. The slogan for the campaign is "Why Believe In a God? Just Be Good for Goodness Sakes." The campaign coincides with bus ads by the British Humanist Association. The British ad reads, "There's Probably No God. Now Stop Worrying and Enjoy Your Life." Story on ABC's News10 web site
 
Teenager insists on her right to die with dignity | Print |  Email
A terminally ill teenager has won a legal battle against a hospital's attempt to force her to have a life-saving heart transplant against her will.Hannah Jones, 13, decided against the surgery, saying she wanted to die with dignity surrounded by family and friends. But her local hospital, Hereford hospital, instigated high court proceedings to remove her, temporarily, from her parents custody to allow the transplant, writes Paul Lewis in The Guardian
 
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