In
Egypt, on the day of the government crackdown against protesters in Cairo, 52
churches across the country were attacked; some were burned to the ground.
Police
are warning drivers about a new insurance scam where fraudsters flash their
headlights at cars waiting to pull out across their path, but instead of
allowing the other car time to make their manoeuvre, they simply continue
driving, cause a crash, and then deny flashing their lights in court.
The
Irish government has told a Catholic hospital that it must provide abortions in
order to comply with a new law permitting abortions in some cases.
At
the World Athletics Championships, Mo Farah of Great Britain won a “double
double” – he is now the Olympic and World champion in both the 5,000 and 10,000
metres. However, his achievement was bettered by Jamaica’s Usain Bolt who
achieved a “double triple”, winning the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay at both
events. A Jamaican woman with a double double-barrelled name, Shelley-Ann
Fraser-Pryce, also won three sprint gold medals to add to her one from the
Olympics.
The
Church of England has sent letters to residents of land where the Church has
ancient rights, stating that the Church intends to register the mineral rights
beneath their property. This is believed to be connected to fracking.
A woman
pensioner and her son have been arrested in Sussex on suspicion of encouraging
suicide, by planning to take the woman’s husband to an assisted suicide centre
in Switzerland.
A bakery in Oregon is being
investigated by state officials because it declined to make a wedding cake for
a lesbian couple. The Christian owners have received death threats, hate mail
and have lost half of their customers since the incident in January.
A recently released report shows
that not only East German athletes were regularly given performance-enhancing
steroids and hormones in the 1970s and 1980s; West German athletes too were
treated at sports centres that received federal funding to experiment with such
drugs. The West Germans even doped under-age athletes.
Stonewall Scotland has been given
lottery funding to distribute a DVD celebrating same-sex marriage to every
primary school in Scotland.
A pro-life group operating outside
an abortion clinic in Brighton have come into conflict with a large charismatic
church there, who agree with the group’s aims but not their methods (showing
graphic pictures of aborted bodies), and who point to the crisis pregnancy
centre that the church runs as an alternative. The group argues that it’s
important to warn women about what they are doing, not just to offer
counselling. The group is currently displaying its banners outside the church,
on the grounds that one of the women they recently met outside the clinic was a
Christian; she decided not to go ahead with her abortion.
And
finally, the leader of Australia’s
Liberal party this week uttered an unfortunate malapropism when he
stated that no political leader can be a “suppository
of wisdom”. Wags have circulated photographs of him captioned “Know your enema”
and “Squeezing out a policy”, while others have commented that they are relieved
to know how he plans to plug holes in the budget.
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