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When we condemn the behaviour of a politician, celebrity, or friend, we often end up appealing to our moral intuitions. "It just feels wrong!" we say. But where do these intuitive judgments come from? Are they reliable moral guides?

Recently, some unusual research has raised questions about the role of intuitive responses in ethical reasoning. Joshua Greene, a philosophy graduate now work...

IF you are healthy, everything works. Sexual health relates to unity, a partnership with no coercion, said Dr Mohd Ismail Tamby, an andrologist or specialist in sexual and reproductive health medicine, at a Bio-Life health seminar in Kuala Lumpur recently.

Dr Ismail was also there to reveal the positive results in sexual health he had recorded, over a six-week period, after evaluating the...

The demarcation between true testimonials and drama was blurred. The advertisers knew exactly what they were doing when they masterminded the false information.

In another case, a well-known crosstalk performer was paid 2 million yuan ($259,000) to appear in a national advertising campaign promoting a weight-loss tea. This beverage was proved to be ineffective with ingredients not as adve...

Sitting and eating quietly on his father's lap, the 18-month-old was oblivious to the infection in his veins.

But his father, a burly farmer, knew only too well. It was the same one that killed his wife four months ago, leaving him alone with four children. The man started to cry.

"When my wife died, I thought, well, it is from God, but at least I have him," he said. "Then I learne...

Victims of human trafficking will have a safe place to stay in Southwest Florida.

Anna Rodriguez, founder and CEO of The Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking, said the group received a commitment last week from an anonymous donor for more than $1 million.

The money will be used to build four shelters across the state to house victims of trafficking. The first shelter will be ...

JEFFERSON CITY - In typical Tony Campolo style, the Baptist preacher who is swapping his title of "evangelical" for "Red-Letter Christian" was unabashed and comical Monday night at Carson-Newman College.

"Evangelical," he told at least 300 people at First Baptist Church on campus, has become synonymous with the gay-bashing, _anti-environmentalist political right.

Jesus was not fixat...

SEOUL - Hostility between old foes North Korea and Japan overshadowed multilateral talks in China on dismantling the North's nuclear programme on Tuesday as the two traded barbs and the United States urged tolerance.

North Korea accused Japan of trying to scuttle the six-party talks and said it did not want energy aid from Japan as a part of a deal to end Pyongyang's nuclear weapons pro...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Hostility between old foes North Korea and Japan overshadowed multilateral talks in China on dismantling the North's nuclear programme on Tuesday as the two traded barbs and the United States urged tolerance.

North Korea accused Japan of trying to scuttle the six-party talks and said it did not want energy aid from Japan as a part of a deal to end Pyongyang's nuclear w...

Chinese premier Wen Jiabao's visit to Japan has been shortened in response to Tokyo's saying there was no proof that women who worked in wartime brothels were coerced, Yonhap news agency said on Sunday.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sparked outrage overseas when he said earlier this month there was no evidence that Japan's government or army had forcibly brought women, many of the...