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British teachers avoiding teaching about the Holocaust and the Crusades to avoid offending Muslim students, study says.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=445979&in_page_id=1770&ICO=NEWS&ICL=TOPART

[Edit: the above was apparently inflated by conservatives.]

Pope endorses theistic evolution.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=447930&in_page_id=1811

Benedict argued that evolution had a rationality that the theory of purely random selection could not explain.

"The process itself is rational despite the mistakes and confusion as it goes through a narrow corridor choosing a few positive mutations and using low probability," he said.

"This...inevitably leads to a question that goes beyond science...where did this rationality come from?"

Answering his own question, he said it came from the "creative reason" of God.

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