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The corporate warriors who make a killing in Afghanistan | Print |  Email
Sunday, 25 July 2010
According to the humanitarian agency Oxfam, more than $40 billion has been spent on Afghanistan since 2002, with about half going towards training and equipping the army and police. Much of this has been undertaken by PSCs, and this before the megabucks made from site, VIP and convoy security, operational co-ordination, intelligence analysis and hostage negotiation, to name just a few of the roles advertised these days on websites like privatemilitary.org or privateforces.com, reports The Sunday Herald
 
London buses to carry female ordination advert during pope's visit | Print |  Email
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Catholic group's initiative will see the slogan 'Pope Benedict Ordain Women Now' appear on 10 buses throughout September, reports Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent of The Guardian
 
Church denounces gay priests after magazine revelations | Print |  Email
Sunday, 25 July 2010
An Italian Catholic diocese has denounced homosexual priests for their "double life" and said they should not be in the priesthood. The Diocese of Rome was responding to a magazine article on three homosexual priests that gave details of alleged sexual encounters and trips to clubs, reports BBC News
 
Fresh call for gay marriages to be legalised | Print |  Email
Thursday, 22 July 2010
It might be marriage in all but name – but now campaigners want to end that final inequality in gay partnerships, reports Rebecca McQuillan in The Herald
 
Humanist ceremonies soar in popularity | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Wedding co-ordinators across leading hotel group Macdonald Hotels & Resorts have seen inquiries rise, with one in 10 couples opting for a Humanist wedding as a more personal alternative to a civil ceremony, reports The Press & Journal
 
How to beat depression – without drugs | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Social connectedness is important to Ilardi. In The Depression Cure, he argues that the brain mistakenly interprets the pain of depression as an infection. Thinking that isolation is needed, it sends messages to the sufferer to "crawl into a hole and wait for it all to go away". This can be disastrous because what depressed people really need is the opposite: more human contact, reports The Guardian
 
Just one in ten police free to fight crime | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Just one in ten police officers is free to tackle crime at any given time because the vast majority are either off work or tied up on other duties, a watchdog report has disclosed, reports The Telegraph
 
Bar chairman backs calls to reconsider drug laws | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Nicholas Green QC, chairman of the UK Bar Council, has come closer than any previous incumbent of the post to calling for the decriminalisation of personal use of drugs including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, reports The Independent

 
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