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The sight of a grown woman lying on the floor, her wrist pinned down by the foot of someone who was supposed to be caring for her was one of the more shocking images that emerged from Winterbourne View, the private hospital which was home to 44 people with learning disabilities until its closure in May 2011. While it seems that attitudes are changing for the better with rega...
Everyone loves a bargain, as those restaurant chains which offer you special "all you can eat" deals for a fixed price know all too well. In Pakistan a pizza company had been doing a roaring trade during the Muslim month of fasting. Families who were ravenous after a day of not eating would pile into the restaurants for the evening meal of Iftar to eat pizza after ...
With Parliament in recess, we don't hear much from our political masters. 在国会休会期间，政治精英们没有发表太多言论， MP's, as well as many business leaders, are on holiday. 议员和商界领导正在度假。 I hope they have a good holiday. 祝他们假期愉快， I hope that they'll not be like the 70% of smartphone users, 也祝他们不要像70%的智能手机用户一样 who was reported y...
Two weeks ago a young Christian girl, Rimsha Masih was detained in Pakistan near the capital Islamabad. 两周前，一名年轻的基督教女孩里姆沙·马希赫在巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰马巴德附近被捕。 The girl who is in her early teens and is said to have learning difficulties 据说这名少女患有学习障碍， was taken into custody after angry mobs alleged the she had burnt or desecrated pages inscr...
It's not easy to knuckle down to the responsibilities of a working week and a wounded world after the excitements of the Olympic experience which has taken us all by surprise. There's a rather strange story in the Christian gospels which might be of help to us. It tells how Jesus goes up a mountain with his closest friends, Peter, James and John to be with God. There...
When I'm sitting in the Multi-faith Centre at the Athlete's Village I can look around at the diverse representation of humanity I am with. We are men and women, younger and older from almost every continent. Some are very fit world class athletes and others of us, me included, are slightly over-weight middle-aged has-beens. Some believe in God as one distinct person,...
"Tomorrow, the verdict is expected in the highly controversial trial of three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, "明天，将判决极具争议的朋克乐队暴动猫的三名成员， who have been jailed for staging what they described as a political performance in the main cathedral in Moscow, 她们被监禁，因为在莫斯科主教堂，她们上演了一场有政治倾向的表演， dedicated to Christ the ...
Two US companies announced earlier this week that they have shelved the testing of a particular drug. It had been the best hope for a treatment for Alzheimer's. Many years work and more than a billion pounds of investment have come to naught, to the disappointment of the researchers involved and the doubtless greater disappointment of those in the very early stages of de...