US Democrats meeting this week in a virtual convention are enthusiastic about the nomination of California senator Kamala Harris for the vice presidency.

Do you use resources to keep alive a six-year-old girl, whose long term prospects are not good, or do you use resources to extend the life of a 90-year-old patient?

Do you use resources to keep alive a six-year-old girl, whose long term prospects are not good, or do you use resources to extend the life of a 90-year-old patient?

Roger Kiska is legal counsel for Christian Concern, which is representing a devout British Muslim couple, both of whom are medical doctors, who were forcibly removed from their dying daughter's bedside. The hospital wanted to remove the daughter's life support, against the will, especially of the father, who is a respiratory expert.

Roger Kiska is legal counsel for Christian Concern, which is representing a devout British Muslim couple, both of whom are medical doctors, who were forcibly removed from their dying daughter's bedside. The hospital wanted to remove the daughter's life support, against the will, especially of the father, who is a respiratory expert.

If there’s a nation that’s struggling for life at the moment, it’s Lebanon. It’s been under strain for almost a decade. Can the religious and sectarian arrangements, where power is divided between religious groups survive the latest turmoil?

If there’s a nation that’s struggling for life at the moment, it’s Lebanon. It’s been under strain for almost a decade. Can the religious and sectarian arrangements, where power is divided between religious groups survive the latest turmoil?

Medical science has crashed through many boundaries – even taboos. But is it on the threshold of making something so fundamental as motherhood unnecessary?

Medical science has crashed through many boundaries – even taboos. But is it on the threshold of making something so fundamental as motherhood unnecessary?

Dr Kwadwo Adusei-Asante on why Muslim and Christian leaders in Mali are trying to calm a political stand-off in the west African nation?