Dozens of gay and lesbian couples entered into civil unions in New Hampshire in the early moments of New Year's Day as a new state law legalized the partnerships after midnight.
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Scientists in California say they have produced embryos that are clones of two men, a potential step toward developing scientifically valuable stem cells.
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Human-cow embryos have been created in a world first at Newcastle University in England, hailed by the scientific community, but labelled "monstrous" by opponents.
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Embryos containing human and animal material have been created in Britain for the first time, a month before the House of Commons votes on new laws to regulate the research.
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Yesterday's report on neonatal survival rates, along with resounding evidence produced by the world's leading foetal pain expert, Professor Anand, that a foetus feels pain from quite an early stage - certainly at 20 weeks - makes the recent science and technology committee report redundant. It also serves to highlight the selective way in which the evidence was presented.
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A scientist has achieved a world first... by cloning himself.
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British regulators granted two licenses on Thursday to conduct controversial experiments using hybrid human-animal embryos, paving the way for further stem cell research into diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
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The number of abortions being performed in America has dropped to 1.2 million a year -- the lowest level since 1976, according to a new report.
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A director who shares the ideas of Iran's hardline president has produced what he says is the first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ, in a bid to show the "common ground" between Muslims and Christians.
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Two men who authorities said dabbled in satanism have been arrested in connection with a recent rash of arson and vandalism at rural churches.
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Nepal Airlines officials thought outside the tool box and decided to sacrifice two goats in front of the plane to appease the Hindu sky deity.
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Uruguay's congress has approved a bill which would allow civil unions for both gay and unmarried straight couples.
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A 20-year-old pro-life activist is among the key players behind the personhood movement, a multistate, no-compromise strategy aimed at outlawing abortion by declaring unborn children to be "persons" under the law.
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A 14-year-old New Zealand girl nearly lost her eyesight when her eyes were gouged by relatives in a Maori exorcism ceremony in which her cousin died, a report said Monday.
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Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University yesterday that he did not want to resign as president of the scandal-plagued evangelical school, but that he did so because God insisted.
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There's no mention of him in the Bible but the plot of a fantasy film set in India gives Jesus Christ a twin brother -- and an evil one at that.
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Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers has decided to go straight to the top in an effort to stop natural disasters from befalling the world.
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The Boston-based legal advocacy group that led the fight for gay marriage in Massachusetts is pushing to expand same-sex couples' rights.
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In what some are calling groundbreaking research, a new four-year study concludes it is possible for homosexuals to change their physical attractions and become heterosexual through the help of Christian ministries.
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Last Friday on a pleasantly brisk night in the desert, Jack Fertig laid his prayer mat on the parched ground, faced toward Mecca, and gave praise to Allah.
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