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The Scottish government should restrict new hate crime laws to behaviour or material that is threatening, rather than abusive, write Dr Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie.
A trial of 14 suspects in connection with three days of terrorist attacks in Paris in January 2015, including on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, has heard how a gunman picked off four men at a kosher supermarket in the city.
A Christian school assistant sacked for posting on Facebook about plans to teach LGBT relationships in primary schools claims she was trying to "defend Biblical truth", a tribunal has heard.
An engineer who helped develop Sir James Dyson's electric car has won a religious discrimination and unfair dismissal claim against the company after her manager told her "I don't like Muslims".
Amy Coney Barrett, a favourite of the religious right, has emerged as the favourite to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court. Abortion rights groups have expressed concern that if appointed, Barrett could help overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalised abortion nationwide.
Israel has entered a second national coronavirus lockdown. Parts of secular Israel feel that Benjamin Netanyahu is allowing businesses to perish while going to extreme lengths to allow religious gatherings.
As ministers reportedly consider changing Scotland's hate crime bill to address free expression concerns, Stephen Evans says their insistence to date that the bill won't undermine legitimate debate has been unconvincing.
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Note: Yesterday's media briefing suggested a proposed assisted dying bill had been tabled in Northern Ireland. It was instead tabled in the Republic of Ireland.
