Debbie Purdy IN A dramatic landmark judgement issued late this afternoon, the House of Lords unanimously ruled in favour of Debbie Purdy’s appeal to have the law on assisted suicide clarified. The unanimous judgement, said MS sufferer Miss Purdy,...

INTERFERENCE by religious zealots earlier this month helped scupper Lord Falconer’s bid to exempt from investigation and prosecution those who help terminally ill people to travel abroad to seek assisted suicide in countries where such actions...

SUPERSTITION has raised its silly head in Thailand and India this week. From the BBC we learn that’s there’s been a bit of a hoo-ha at Thailand’s main international airport, where a plan has been unveiled to move 12 large statues of spirit...

STARTLING news from the Vatican today: The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding a conference on astrobiology, the study of life beyond Earth. According to the Telegraph, for centuries, theologians have argued over what the existence of life...

YEMEN-based Anwar al-Awlaki, who once served as an imam in America (he was born in New Mexico) has come out in full support of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan. Anwar al-Awlaki Writing on his blog yesterday, the loopy Muslim extremist said: Nidal Hassan...

MAJOR Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their necks. Nidal Malik Hasan According...

HOMO-hating Christian Carrie Prejean, who was stripped of her Miss California title, hurriedly dropped her $1-million law suit against pageant organisers Miss California USA after it was revealed that that she starred in a hard-core solo sex home...