Are there no Good Samaritans in China? When a two-year-old child wandered into traffic and was hit by a van, 18 passers-by carefully stepped around the bleeding little girl named Xiao Yueyue. Some of the passers-by looked the toddler over in apparent curiosity as they strolled by, but did not pause to help. A second vehicle…

Hundreds of pregnant mothers in Britain have been given faulty information that prompted them to approve post-miscarriage procedures, in effect aborting healthy babies. “Around a third of the 500,000 miscarriages a year in the UK are confirmed via ultrasound scans of the fetus and the sac that envelops it in the womb,” reports Fiona MacRae…

The Mexico City assembly is considering issuing two-year renewable marriage licenses, allowing couples to separate when the term expires rather than have to go through divorces. “Leftists in the city’s assembly – who have already riled conservatives by legalizing gay marriage – proposed a reform to the civil code this week that would allow couples…

Young Coptic Christians stood in silent tribute Sunday night at Cairo’s Abbasseya Cathedral, mourning the violent deaths of 27 and wounding of hundreds in what is increasingly being referred to as the Maspero Massacre — as Egyptian army units opened fire on a peaceful protest march last week. Meanwhile, the official line is emerging that the victims themselves —…

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