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Toads in a hole due to deadly fungus
Britain's toad population could face extinction in some areas within 10 years due to an infectious fungal disease, scientists said on Wednesday.
Tories take aim at Victorian jail buildings
Overcrowded Victorian inner-city jails are under threat from prison reformers on all sides of the political spectrum who want to demolish and rebuild them.
Officials meet to discuss McCann evidence
British and Portuguese forensic scientists are to meet to discuss DNA evidence in the Madeleine McCann investigation, police said on Wednesday.
Trouble looms for a third of mortgages
Up to one in three or 5.5 million mortgage holders in Britain could face serious financial difficulties as a result of the U.S. subprime crisis and the tougher lending climate it has created, a study showed.
Rape trial changes planned to boost convictions
The government will unveil new guidelines for rape trials on Wednesday, such as telling juries that victims react in different ways, in a bid to increase low conviction rapes, the BBC reported.
Brown faces MPs over illegal funding scandal
Gordon Brown faces a grilling in parliament on Wednesday over the funding row that has engulfed the Labour party, the latest in a series of setbacks to rock his government.
'Christian Avril' goes international again
Teenage Christian rock star Krystal Meyers will be going on an international tour again this year by taking her live shows to Hong Kong and Guatemala.
Atheists flock to secular Sunday school
Christian kids are typically sent to Sunday school for lessons on the Bible and morals. For non-believers, there's atheist Sunday school.
Churches in Bahrain threatened with eviction
Churches in Bahrain could be facing eviction in Manama after the Bahrain Government gave them two weeks notice to provide documents proving that they were given permission to operate in the country.
Anti-Christian persecution hits new high in India
At least four cases of Christian persecution in India were reported in the average week this year, according to statistics recently revealed by the president of the All India Catholic Union and others actively monitoring the situation.
Christian Aid to call for bold Aids strategy
Christian Aid will be participating in an event in Parliament Square on 29 November ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December.
Christian lawyers, Stop the Traffik to highlight contemporary slavery
Christian lawyers and Stop the Traffik will team up next week for a seminar to tackle contemporary slavery in the UK.
Tearfund film footage supports Archbishop's broadcast in Aids fight
Tearfund launched on Tuesday its latest Aids appeal pack, which features film footage of a family of children orphaned by Aids in Uganda also used in a broadcast by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Bush says Annapolis path will be difficult
With a handshake, leaders of the United States, Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Tuesday to immediately launch peace talks with the goal of reaching a final accord by the end of 2008.
Iran says ex-nuclear official guilty of propaganda
Former Iranian nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian has been found guilty of "propaganda against the system" but acquitted of an espionage charge that could have carried the death penalty, a judiciary official said on Tuesday.
Atom bomb an ace as Pakistan's Sharif woos Punjab
There is little doubt who engineer Zafar Butt will vote for at Pakistan's upcoming general election. You need look no further than the mushroom cloud mounted on his motorbike.