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| 'Home-brew' morphine from brewer's yeast now possible - study | | | By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home-brewing could soon take on a more dangerous twist: Scientists have engineered brewer's yeast to synthesize opioids such as codeine and morphine from a common sugar, an international team reported on Monday. "It is going to be possible to 'home-brew' opiates in the near future," Christopher Voight of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the research, told reporters. The process described in Nature Chemical Biology is inefficient, requiring 300 liters of genetically engineered yeast to produce a single 30 milligram dose of morphine. For centuries, morphine and other opioids have been the go-to drugs for pain relief. |
| Chastened Church leaders take back seat in Irish gay marriage vote | |  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Its word was once law in Ireland on everything from contraception to divorce. Now, shorn of much of its influence, the Catholic Church has limited campaigning on Friday's gay marriage referendum to sermons to its remaining flock. Little over two decades after it legalised homosexuality, Ireland will become the first country to approve same-sex marriage via a popular vote, if polls that predict a victory by as much as two-to-one prove accurate. The issue has dominated the media for weeks but the Church has been largely absent, its influence ravaged by revelations of child abuse by priests and members of religious orders, after decades of gradual decline. Although the main political parties are campaigning for a 'Yes' vote, the head of the Irish Catholic Church said it "would be wrong (to think) that somehow this is a Church-state battle." "We would see ourselves as important contributors and we will primarily exercise that voice to our own people, in our own churches," Archbishop Eamon Martin told state broadcaster RTE.
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| Ukraine says it will prosecute captured Russian soldiers for terrorist acts | |  By Richard Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine on Monday accused two captured Russian servicemen of having killed Ukrainian troops in fighting in its east and said they would be prosecuted for "terrorist acts". Russia denies active military involvement. In a video posted online by the Ukrainian interior ministry, one of the prisoners gave his name as Alexander Alexandrov. He said he had been on a spying mission in Ukraine as part of a 14-member special forces group from the central Russian town of Togliatti.
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| Revenge attacks feared after deadly Texas biker gang shootout | |  By Lisa Maria Garza WACO, Texas (Reuters) - Police worried about retaliation attacks after 170 people were charged on Monday in connection with Sunday's shootout between motorcycle gangs that left nine dead and 18 wounded at a Waco, Texas, restaurant turned into a blood-soaked shambles. Bikers from at least five rival gangs attacked each other with guns, knives, brass knuckles, clubs and motorcycle chains at a Twin Peaks Sports Bar and Grill in the central Texas city. "I will tell you that we have had threats against law enforcement officers throughout the night," Waco Police Sergeant Patrick Swanton told a news briefing, adding that hospital staff have also been threatened and bikers were reported to be traveling to the city following the shooting.
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| U.S. appeals court rules for Google in anti-Islamic film case | |  A U.S. appeals court on Monday ruled in favor of Google Inc over a woman's attempt to remove an anti-Islamic film from YouTube, saying that an injunction that had prohibited the company from broadcasting it should be dissolved.
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| Aruna Shanbaug dies four decades after being sodomised and left in a coma | | | By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 66-year-old nurse, who was sexually assaulted and left in a vegetative state for more than 40 years, died on Monday, in a case that sparked national debate over the legalisation of euthanasia. In November 1973, Aruna Shanbaug was attacked by a ward attendant at the King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital in Mumbai as the 26-year-old nurse was finishing her night-shift. Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, who was later convicted and jailed, sodomised and strangled her with a dog chain - cutting off the oxygen supply to her brain and leaving her in a coma. "She (Shanbaug) passed away at 8.30 a.m. She had been diagnosed with pneumonia and had been on ventilator for the past few days," said Medical Superintendent Pravin Bangar at KEM hospital, where her colleagues had cared for Shanbaug for the past 42 years. |
| Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners | | | Saudi Arabia is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading. No special qualifications are needed for the jobs whose main role is "executing a judgement of death" but also involve performing amputations on those convicted of lesser offences, the advert, posted on the civil service jobs portal, said. A man beheaded on Sunday was the 85th person this year whose execution was recorded by the official Saudi Press Agency, compared to 88 in the whole of 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). |
| "Devil" nurse found guilty of murdering, poisoning patients at British hospital | | | Victorino Chua, 49, contaminated healthcare products that were later administered to patients on the acute treatment wards on which he worked at Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in July 2011. He was caught after a massive police investigation, which took officers to Chua's native Philippines, where they found he had left one hospital after being caught stealing. "Hidden in plain sight and using unsuspecting colleagues to carry out his sinister plan, Victorino Chua deliberately poisoned and murdered those who were under his care and those who were at their most vulnerable and most in need of help," said Det. |
| Belgium convicts seven women for supporting Islamic State | | | A Belgian court on Monday handed out prison sentences to seven women for supporting Islamic State and radicalising young women to go to Syria to join its ranks and marry fighters of the militant organisation. Four of the seven women - five Belgians, one Dutch and one Moroccan - were not in court to hear their convictions and were believed to be in Syria with female battalions of Islamic State, the Antwerp-based court said. In their absence, they were given five-year prison sentences for their activities with those battalions, including patrolling and guarding entrances to towns and cities in Syria. The women present in court were guilty of facilitating the departure of Islamic State recruits and collecting money for organisations aiming to radicalise young girls. |
| French police cleared over deaths in 2005 riots case | |  A French court on Monday acquitted two police officers over the death of two youths in a Paris suburb in 2005, in a case that had triggered the country's worst riots in decades. The police officers were sent to trial over whether they had failed to provide help to 15-year old Bouna Traore and 17-year old Zyed Benna when they hid from police in an electric transformer. Some 10,000 cars and 300 buildings were set on fire after the two teenagers died in three weeks of riots that had attracted world-wide attention and prompted the government to declare a state of emergency.
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