Most would agree that the issue of Palestine and Israel is one that should be discussed in all schools, particularly in Britain, which has played no small part in one of the most grave injustices in history.

Last week, CAGE — an advocacy group for those affected by the 'War on Terror' — leaked a number of training documents that revealed teaching staff are being encouraged to consider Muslim students who display an interest in Palestinian issues as vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism. "Where the public sector is being required to play a role as part of the security state, it is important that there is full transparency and accountability." — CAGE

We have previously reported on the creeping use of counter-terrorism policies in the U.K. being used to clamp down on civil liberties by way of the PREVENT programme, which is operated across the U.K. through the government's Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent, commonly referred to as WRAP. Recently leaked training materials include workshop plans, video clips, and software programmes that are being used to train public sector workers in spotting signs of radicalisation. The resources list Palestine alongside Syria and the growth of the Islamic State group as issues that need careful monitoring by those involved in safeguarding.

The revered literary critic, author and essayist - most famous for 1980 novel The Name of the Rose - had been suffering from cancer

The celebrated Italian intellectual Umberto Eco, who shot to fame with his 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, has been remembered as a master of Italian culture after his death at the age of 84.

Eco died on Friday night after suffering from cancer, prompting tributes to pour in for the esteemed writer.

He was "an extraordinary example of a European intellectual, combining unique intelligence of the past with a limitless capacity to anticipate the future", said Italy's prime minister, Matteo Renzi. "It's an enormous loss for culture, which will miss his writing and voice, his sharp and lively thought, and his humanity," Renzi told the Ansa news agency.

For more than half a century, the unsolved killing of a young schoolteacher and beauty queen who was last seen at church haunted the Texas city of McAllen.

But now, nearly 56 years after the bludgeoned body of 25-year-old Irene Garza was pulled from an irrigation canal, police have arrested the man long suspected in her slaying: the former priest who apparently heard her final confession.

Using a walker, a frail-looking John Bernard Feit, now 83, appeared in court Wednesday in Phoenix after being arrested a day earlier at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, on a murder charge. He was jailed on $750,000 cash bail while he awaits transfer back to Texas.

"This whole thing makes no sense to me because the crime in question took place in 1960," Feit said, adding that he plans to fight extradition to Texas.

A Florida teen was arrested on suspicion of practicing medicine without a license after he allegedly performed a physical exam on an undercover agent on Tuesday.

Malachi Love-Robinson is shown in a booking photo released by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Feb. 16, 2016.

Malachi Love-Robinson, 18, was taken into custody after the undercover operation, during which he gave medical advice, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office announced.

Authorities had received a complaint earlier in the month about Love-Robinson, who had been cited by the state health department for practicing medicine without a license in October 2015.

The importance of protecting animals from cruelty inflicted by people, who seem to disregard the fact that animals are sentient beings similar to humans, has been validated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), which has now added animal cruelty to its list of Class A felonies. As of the beginning of 2016, the FBI started logging cases of animal abuse in their Incident-Based Reporting System where it keeps records of other felonies, such as homicide and arson.

A big motivating factor behind the effort to track animal abusers is the link between animal cruelty and every type of violent and non-violent crime.

"Regardless of whether people care about how animals are treated, people — like legislators and judges — care about humans, and they can't deny the data." ~ Natasha Dolezal, director of the animal law program in the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon

In September, on a rainy Saturday night, Georgia state trooper Anthony Scott was flexing his above the law privilege and driving at dangerously high speeds for no reason.

Scott was not on his way to a call, nor did he have any official reason for driving fast, when he slammed into a Nissan Sentra carrying four kids. Kylie Hope Lindsey, 17, and Isabella Alise Chinchilla, 16, who were in the back seat of the Nissan, were killed.

Dillon Lewis Wall, 18, who was driving, and front-seat passenger Benjamin Alan Finken, 17, were critically injured and taken to Grady Memorial Hospital.

Five months later, and Dillon is still recovering from a brain injury, paralysis, hearing loss and multiple broken teeth from the crash. However, according to Dillon, it's his heart that hurts the most as this young man was crazy about Kylie.

'We need someone who will work to substantially lower drug prices, implement rules to safely import brand-name drugs from Canada and hold companies accountable who defraud our government.'

Senator Bernie Sanders put a hold on President Barack Obama's nominee to take over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday, joining with two other senators who have also objected to Dr. Robert M. Califf's nomination, citing his ties to corporate drug manufacturers.

One of the most infuriating aspects of the Flint water crisis is that residents are not only still being charged for their poisoned water, but they're being charged higher rates than almost anywhere in the country.

Residents continue to pay $864 a year for water that is making them sick, more than double what most Americans pay for water service. Flint's water service charges total 7 percent of the average household income, compared to the United Nations recommendation of 3 percent.

"They've been using that money improperly for years to fund the general operations of the city," said Valdemar L. Washington, who's been fighting the excessive increases in court since 2012. "The city's sewer fund had a balance of $36 million in 2006 but was running a $23-million deficit by 2012."

Meanwhile, less than two hundred miles away, multi-billion dollar corporation Nestle has been pumping millions of gallons out of Lake Michigan for free. In fact, they receive 13 million dollars in tax breaks to do so.

Despite making over 15 billion dollars in profits in 2014, Michigan government officials don't charge Nestle per gallon of water, instead taking only a small permitting fee, as Democracy Now explained:


So not only do low income Flint residents technically pay more for Michigan water than Nestle, but now they're also forced to buy bottled water from Nestle to stay alive. Flint residents are in the deplorable position of being forced to buy Michigan water from two different parties.

The Nestle bottling plant itself is a hated institution in Mecosta County. As if getting water for free wasn't enough, the corporation greedily pumped at a rate of 400 gallons a minute, destroying the local environment. Grassroots organization Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) sued Nestle, who bitterly fought the local group for years.

"We wanted to protect our water, and the water was ours, not theirs," said Peggy Case, President of MCWC. "This lasted for—like I said before, this lasted for eight years. And in that time, with lawyer fees and, you know, all the fees that come with going to court, we spent over $1 million."

And how did a local activist organization scrounge up the money to fight a corporate giant?

"We scrambled for every penny we could get," Case said. "We did 50/50 raffles among us, or anybody else we could get into it. We did yard sales. We wrote grants. We had bake sales."

In a stunning victory, MCWC succeeded in forcing Nestle to reduce their withdrawals from 400 to 200 gallons a minute. But Nestle continues to receive free water and preferential treatment.

And Flint residents continue to be overcharged for water that is not only killing them, but bankrupting them as well.

A poignant song and video inspired by the tragic drowning of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi has been released by an Australian musician who "felt overwhelmed by a profound protective instinct for him and people like him".

Photographs of the three-year-old's lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach last year became a heartbreaking symbol of the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. The toddler's family sought to escape the violence in Syria and make a home in Canada.

Residents in a Sunnyvale neighborhood say a secretive Apple facility is changing the face of their neighborhood, for the worse.

"At three in the morning, they have deliveries. It's very dark, very secretive. We don't know what's going on, but almost every night there is noise that wakes the dogs up," Joann Porter said.

Neighbors on Bartlett Avenue near the facility said security guards tail them when they walk their dogs. "You have security guards following you in their cars," Porter said.