The place the Yazidi call home has been seeded with tens of thousands of mines.
Even those Israelis who are secretly against the military assault on Gaza are cautious about voicing their opposition openly.
Our obsession with fiction such as "True Detective" suggests something remarkably adjacent to traditional theological concerns, writes Giles Fraser.
Once a luxury claimed by the idle rich, languor is now the ultimate personal failing.
The latest Kandahar massacre has illustrated how soldier’s have hardened and how their natural ‘shoot-to-miss’ instinct have been stifled.
Far from being wishy-washy, Christians are right to be wary of any justification for violence.
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/ 15 February 2011
Who said this? "We are a Christian culture, we come from a Christian culture, and not to know the King James Bible is to be, in some way barbarian.
The headlines were grabbed by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s attack on United States foreign policy. But the deeper point, widely missed, was his attack on Western modernity in general. "There is something about Western modernity which really does eat away at the soul," he said in an interview with the Muslim magazine, <i>Emel</i>, late last year.
The college head thinks 95% of us are going to burn in hell. His new deputy believes it’s wrong for women to teach men. Insiders are complaining about an "openly homophobic" atmosphere. A third of the academic staff have resigned. Others are unwilling to speak openly because they fear disciplinary action.
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/ 23 January 2003
Beneath the question of whether a nutty sect has actually cloned a baby, lies the more interesting question of why it actually wants to. "The goal is to give humans eternal life through cloning," say the Raelians. You make a clone copy of me and then "download’" my personality into the clone.