Germany scraps ban on assisted suicide; church groups protest

Germany’s top court scraps ban on assisted suicide, sparking dismay from church groups German lawmakers rule people have ‘the right to self-determined death’  The decision was made during a Federal Court session in Karlsruhe  Church leaders expressed their dismay at the landmark ruling which is ‘guaranteed in all stages of a person’s existence’ By Stephen Delahunty … Read more

Students at top university LSE vote to ban BEEF from its campus in bid to tackle climate change 

Students at the London School of Economics have voted to ban all beef products from the Holborn campus.  The vote was proposed by LSE’s Peta representative Phoebe Woodruff, who now wants all meat banned from the university.   The college, which is the fourth-ranked university in Britain, has almost 12,000 students, however, the proposal to ban … Read more

Coronavirus outbreak ‘could lead to ban on large gatherings’

Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Over 2,700 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 80,000 have been infected. But experts predict the true number of people with the disease could be as high as … Read more