BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — A Belfast judge has ruled that Northern Ireland's government should ease restrictions on abortion because the prevailing law denies women the right to end pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
High Court Justice Mark Horner said politicians should pass a law permitting abortions involving fatal fetal abnormalities and sexual crimes. He said outlawing such terminations violated European human rights statues.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Maritime historians, climate scientists and ordinary citizens are coming together on a project to study the logbooks of 19th-century whaling ships to better understand modern-day climate change and Arctic weather patterns.
Whaling ships kept meticulous daily logbooks of weather conditions during their often yearslong voyages searching the globe for whales, valued for their light-giving oil, said Michael Dyer, senior maritime historian at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, which is supplying much of the data.
