Steve Sweetman took up palaeontology just eight years ago, but already he has discovered 48 new prehistoric species while scouring the coast of the Isle of Wight. Patrick Barkham joins him on the hunt

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A court in Brittany heard yesterday how four members of a fanatical Black Metal anti-Christian sect went on alcohol fuelled rampages smashing ancient granite crosses in cemeteries and torching a 16th century chapel classified as an ancient monument.

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The US Supreme Court has ruled that a Utah town should not be forced to erect a monument to a sect which mummifies pets.

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Betty Tylden, who died on February 3 aged 91, was an eminent family psychiatrist often called as an expert witness in child abuse cases and well known for her work with adult survivors of child abuse and people traumatised by religious cults that use mind-control techniques.

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This wasn’t really a budget speech, or even a State of the Union. It was a call to rebuild a country—from its infrastructure, to its economy, to its values.

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Comic Song

British soldiers are engaged in “a surreal mini civil war” with growing numbers of home-grown jihadists who have travelled to Afghanistan to support the Taliban, senior Army officers have told The Independent.

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The U.S. is rapidly moving past the ideological stage of the debate about a green energy future—the question now is how fast we can get it done in the real, as opposed to the abstract, policy world.

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A New Tradition for Obama’s Presidential Events: Opening With a Prayer

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Richard Williams the British bishop whose denial of key facts of the Holocaust provoked a crisis in the Catholic Church has been expelled from Argentina.

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IN THESE difficult times it is fortunate to have cause to celebrate some remarkable achievements of the human intellect.

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A government decree allowing Lebanese to remove their religion from their ID cards has been welcomed by rights groups, writes the BBC’s Natalia Antelava.

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A poll commissioned by BBC News has revealed that the majority of respondents want UK laws to reflect religious values.

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There’s been a rising chorus of alarm from church leaders at what they regard as the “aggressive secularism” marginalising Christianity, the religion whose precepts - such as “do as you would be done by”, and upholding the sanctity of human life - once underpinned British laws.

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Justices will decide whether the monument can stand in a national preserve to honor fallen soldiers. It will be the Roberts court’s first chance to rule on separation of church and state.

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Justices will decide whether the monument can stand in a national preserve to honor fallen soldiers. It will be the Roberts court’s first chance to rule on separation of church and state.

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Sectarian, conservative leadership is driving confused young Muslims into the arms of radicals.

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Evolution, Global Warming, Doomsday and the Afterlife

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In an interview for God and the Scientists, to be broadcast tonight in Channel 4’s series on Christianity, Richard Dawkins declares: “Darwin removed the main argument for God’s existence.”

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British Muslims are providing the Taliban with electronic devices to make roadside bombs used against troops in Afghanistan The Telegraph can disclose.

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