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MPs seek to tighten abortion law

Results are read out the last time MPs voted on abortion law, during the passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in 2008 (PA photo)

Labour and Tory MPs are tabling amendments to a new health bill that they say will dramatically reduce the number of abortions in Britain

Man with paralysed leg walks 1,000 miles after visit to Lourdes

Handicapped pilgrims pictured in front of the Basilica of the Rosary in Lourdes (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Bishop recognises healing as ‘remarkable’ but says further study is needed before it can be declared a miracle

Pope sends top cardinal to Ivory Coast amid fears of civil war

Refugees carry their possessions on their heads in Ivory Coast as they flee from escalating violence    AP Photo/Marco Chown Oved

Pope Benedict XVI pleads for peace in the country and says he has sent Cardinal Turkson as an envoy

Pope calls for suspension of fighting in Libya

A rebel fighter guards a checkpoint on a road in Libya (CNS photo/Finbarr O'Reilly, Reuters)

Archbishop Mennini, Apostolic Nuncio to Britain, is to represent the Vatican at an international conference on Libya tomorrow

Ukrainian Catholic Church elects 40-year-old as leader

Archbishop Shevchuk is installed at the Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection of Christ in Kiev (CNS photo/Kon stantin Chernichkin, Reuters)

Archbishop Shevchuk, 40, is chosen to lead the largest of the Eastern churches in full communion with Rome