In one afternoon, the Vatican destroyed more than a decade of patient campaigning for condom use.… Read the rest

The ruthless cleric’s ‘teaching’ takes no account of women whose husbands are infected.… Read the rest

Denying the fact that condom use reduces the spread of AIDS makes the pope seem either ignorant or malicious.… Read the rest

Experts recommend latex instead.… Read the rest

Pakistan recently circulated a resolution ‘Combating Defamation of Religions’ to UN diplomats in Geneva.… Read the rest

A woman set fire to her child in attempt to incriminate her brother’s wife, who had escaped.… Read the rest

Freedom of speech is the most important freedom of all and should not be abridged without very powerful reasons.… Read the rest

Eyewitness evidence should be treated as trace evidence, subject to contamination, deterioration and corruption.… Read the rest

The geniuses bet more than double AIG’s value that defaults would not become problematic.… Read the rest

The bonuses are linked to performance; the performance wrecked the global economy; what bonus is owed?… Read the rest

So shut up about the rapes and beatings and forced marriage. Or else.… Read the rest

If they discussed it ‘they’d be seen as betraying their family and their community and culture.’… Read the rest

Bengali liberals view Jamaat-e-Islami as UK liberals view the BNP: the enemy of all their best principles.… Read the rest

Cramer was pummelled like a rope-a-dope over his profession’s failure to be an effective watchdog.… Read the rest

Includes a petition to President Karzai urging him to quash the sentence and release Kambakhsh.… Read the rest

‘Modern liberalism has strong totalitarian tendencies,’ says Catholic archbishop of Sydney.… Read the rest

He was hired to assault and intimidate a woman who ‘defaulted’ on the proper haredi way of life.… Read the rest

Prelate, writing in Vatican newspaper, urges respect for the Catholic doctors.… Read the rest

‘Every woman, Muslim or non-Muslim, would have to cover everything apart from her face and hands in public.’… Read the rest

A crackdown by the Pakistani government to prevent a national demonstration collapsed. … Read the rest