A court in Iran staged a trial this month for Ghoncheh Ghavami, the British Iranian activist who was arrested for attending a volleyball game, but she still awaits the final verdict.

Stephen Hawking came out as atheist recently while speaking in an interview with a Spanish newspaper.

In an attempt to check religious extremism in public schools, British Education Secretary said schools that teach Biblical Creationism would be refused government funding.

A Christian school in Louth, Lincolnshire, has denied claims of its curriculum being fundamentalist as well as its teaching of Christian radicalism.

Catholic school governors have condemned the National Governors Association for promoting the abolition of mandatory Christian assemblies in community schools.