Who needs sex to make babies? Pretty soon, humans won’t
Source: The Guardian By Henry Greely Within decades, technology will give would-be parents choices that sound like the stuff of science fiction. What ‘easy PGD’ won’t give you though, is a […]
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Polish prime minister favours total ban on abortion
Source: The Gaurdian By Alex Duval Smith The Polish prime minister, Beata Szydło, said she backs moves towards a total ban on abortion, in a sign the nationalist government may be […]
Widening reach of blasphemy law, Egypt targets poet for Facebook post on sheep
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan CAIRO — At a literary gathering in Cairo, the poem Fatma Naoot chose to read could not have been more relevant. It was […]
Turkish Cultural Center to open in Lanham amid tensions over Islam
Source: The Washington Post By Hamil R. Harris There were about 15 of them there at the beginning. Turkish American engineers who in the early 1990s worked at NASA’s Goddard […]
Army will let Sikh officer keep turban, beard on active duty
Source: RNS By Cathy Lynn Grossman A is senior national reporter for RNS (RNS) A decorated veteran Sikh officer is the first to win an approval from the U.S. Army to […]
Meet the Iraqi Refugees Who Are Going Back to Iraq
Source: Time ByRebecca Collard/Erbil, Iraq For the Doski family, the arrival to northern Iraq’s Erbil International Airport last week was bittersweet. Fayez Al Doski waited with his wife and two children as immigration officers went over the one-way travel documents issued to them by the Iraqi embassy in Germany. Like […]
Step away from the car, feeble human
Source: BBC By Matthew Phenix The driverless race car is coming. That’s a car that drives around a track. Very fast. Without a driver. Competing against other fast cars. Also […]
A Terror Attack, Then Far Right Moves In
Source: The New York Times By BEN C. SOLOMON, TAIGE JENSEN, STEFANIA ROUSSELLE and LESLYE DAVIS MARSEILLE, France — In the United States and Europe, mainstream political parties find themselves besieged. Two-party systems that were once stable are under new pressure, fracturing and creating openings for populists on the extremes, […]
ISIS Turns Saudis Against the Kingdom, and Families Against Their Own
Source: The New York Times By BEN HUBBARD BURAIDA, Saudi Arabia — The men were not hardened militants. One was a pharmacist, another a heating and cooling technician. One was […]
A Syrian Refugee’s Message to the European Union
Source: The New York Times By LAILA Laila is a licensed hairdresser. She asked that her surname be withheld because she fears telling her story could endanger her family in […]
Prior to Lahore bombing, Pakistanis were critical of Taliban and other extremist groups
Source: Pew Research Center BY JACOB POUSHTER A senior researcher focusing on global attitudes at Pew Research Center. The bombing that took place on Easter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan, was a devastating reminder that the scourge of terrorism is not confined to the recent headlines from the Middle East and […]
How ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror Under Europe’s Gaze
Source: The New York Times By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Reporting was contributed by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt from Washington, Laure Fourquet and Aurelien Breeden from Paris, Katrin Bennhold from […]
China official says Dalai Lama ‘making a fool’ of Buddhism
Source: Reuters Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is “making a fool” of Tibetan Buddhism with suggestions he may not reincarnate, or reincarnate as something inappropriate, and the faithful […]
Donald Trump’s Abortion Logic Is Totally 100% Right
Source: Time By Jill Filipovic A lawyer and writer The success of Donald Trump stems from one major factor: the perception that he tells it like it is because he’s beholden […]
Obama at last prayer breakfast: ‘We heal hatred with love’
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks production editor and a national reporter for RNS WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama hosted his last Easter Prayer Breakfast with Christian leaders, pausing to reflect on […]
Trump’s Tragic Flaw May Finally Send Him Down In Flames
Source: Huffington Post WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has defied the laws of political physics from the moment he rode down that gold-toned elevator in his own Manhattan tower to announce […]
A meal that spans two continents
Source: BBC By Julie Bensman 30 March 2016 No matter what language you speak or where you come from, sharing a meal with friends is the best way to spend […]
Trump abortion row: Republican front-runner changes stance
Source: BBC US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has withdrawn a call for women who have abortions to be punished, only hours after suggesting it. He had proposed “some form of punishment” for women who have abortions if they were made illegal. But after strong criticism, Mr Trump repeated the Republican […]
‘Drastic’ Antarctic melt could double global sea-level rise
Source: BBC By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent Global sea levels could rise by more than double the current best estimate, according to a new analysis of climate change in Antarctica. […]
Build 2016: Microsoft proposes helper bot boom
Source: BBC By Chris Baraniuk Technology reporter Microsoft has unveiled a new system of bots that can represent businesses and interact with users via Skype. Social bots are automated programs […]