Women will be allowed to become bishops in the Church of England, following a vote at the General Synod meeting in York gave final approval to legislation to introduce the change.
A UKIP councillor has written a homophobic letter to a local newspaper in Henley on Thames blaming the recent storms and flooding in the UK on the legalisation of gay marriage.
After 12 years under the guidance of Mayor and business mogul Michael Bloomberg, the biggest city in the United States is itself a tale of two cities. On the one hand, New York is more gentrified and safer than ever as previous no-go areas in Brooklyn and Harlem have been transformed into playgrounds for students and young professionals. On the other hand, skyrocketing housing prices and the 2008 financial meltdown has sent more of the city’s poor to the streets than ever before.
Uganda’s Parliament has passed a bill to punish acts of homosexuality with jail terms up to life in prison.
The Church of England’s ruling general synod has voted in support of proposals to allow the ordination of women bishops as soon as next year.