Just days after a
UK Government commission decided that aborting babies because they were
disabled was discriminatory and urged that the practice be banned, the Director
of Public Prosecutions has decided not to prosecute two doctors who broke the
existing law by aborting babies because they were girls. The DPP said that
prosecution was “not in the public interest” and that the General Medical
Council could deal with the cases, but the GMC has no criminal powers.
Following the UK
Parliament’s vote not to intervene militarily in Syria, Prime Minister David
Cameron has accused opponents of “failing
to take a stand against the gassing of children” and said they must “live with
the way they have voted”. Meanwhile, the Pope has called for Christians
worldwide to a day of prayer and fasting for Syria on Saturday September 7.
Samsung have
released for sale their new Galaxy Gear smartwatch. It communicates with a nearby
mobile phone, so that owners can look at their wrists instead of having to take
their phone out of their pocket; it also tells the time. Perhaps more usefully,
the BBC have updated their iPlayer app for Android so that BBC programmes can
be downloaded and watched offline later.
Ariel Castro, the
man who held three women as sex slaves for a decade in his home in Cleveland,
Ohio, has been found dead in his prison cell in an apparent suicide. He had
served just four months of his sentence of life plus 1000 years.
For the second time
this year, a prominent Muslim sportsman has objected to the sponsor of his team’s
shirt for religious reasons. Fawaz Ahmed, a naturalised Australian cricketer,
has been given permission by the governing body and the sponsor (a brewery) to
wear a shirt without the brewer’s logo.
A lesbian couple claim a Church of England vicar
refused to baptise their baby after they both insisted on being registered as
the mother. The vicar allegedly said the church baptism register would not
allow it, and he suggested one be registered as the mother while the other be
put down as the godmother instead. “I'm baptised Church of England” said one
woman ,”and my partner is a Catholic. We want him to be brought up the same as
we were.”
Andy Murray has continued
his post-Wimbledon slump by losing the quarter final of the US Open to
Stanislas Wawrinka. Murray completed the match without achieving any break
points.
And finally, a stork was briefly arrested in Egypt
when its migration tag was mistaken for a spying device. The idea of using
animals for spying is not as far-fetched as it sounds; during the Cold War, the
CIA launched Operation Acoustic Kitty in which a cat, implanted with listening
devices, was released near the Soviet embassy. Unfortunately, the cat was run
over by a car after just one day.
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