Health

Stop Your Castrations

The Wowster on moves to force Germany to stop castrations Germany's policy of offering castration to sex offenders as part of rehabilitation has ran into problems with the Council of Europe. The Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has asked Germany to stop castrations, describing the practice as degrading and recommends immediate action to outlaw it. German law permits people at risk ...

Living With Danger

The Wowster on two journalists who payed the ultimate price for living with danger Without them the world would be less informed. Now two of the journalists living with danger to get their reports out there are dead. Marie Colvin of the ...

Call for new ‘presumed dead’ law

Call for new 'presumed dead' law The government should change the law to make it easier for families of missing people presumed dead to deal with their affairs, the Commons Justice Select Committee says. Click here for full story Strauss Khan 'suspect' in ...

Binge Drinking Solutions (possibly)

The Wowster on 10 solutions to stop binge drinking It's that time of year again. How to stop binge drinking before it wipes out the UK population. Ten ideas have emerged as follows: Subtly make drinks weaker...somewhat whacky and unlikely to work... A minimum ...

Strauss Khan ‘suspect’ in prostitution ring

Strauss Khan 'suspect' in prostitution ring Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being questioned by French police as a suspect in a prostitution ring inquiry Click here for full story Ed Balls calls for tax cuts Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls has called for ...

Rupert Murdoch to tackle journalist arrests

Rupert Murdoch to tackle journalist arrests Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of News Corporation, has arrived in London to take charge of the latest crisis involving one of his newspapers. Click here for full story UN adopts resolution on Syria The UN General Assembly ...