Under the measure, a single point of contact – such as a teacher or health visitor – would have been assigned to look out for the welfare of children. But the Supreme Court ruled in its current form it could breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects privacy and family rights.

Colin Hart, director of the Christian Institute, said: "We are very happy with today's ruling, which vindicates what we and others have been saying for years." The court even invoked the spectre of totalitarian regimes in its criticism of the plans. "This is a devastating blow for the Scottish Government which sought to brush off all criticism of its named person scheme as 'scaremongering'."

The prospect of Germany leaving the EU has been dubbed a Gexit, which stands for German exit, and Dexit, which stands for Deutschland exit. Far-right figures in Alternative for Germany (AfD) have promised to call their own vote if they get into power in Germany’s general election in autumn next year.

After the Brexit victory in June, AfD chairman Bjorn Hocke said: "I know the German people want to be free of EU slavery.” The European policy spokesman for the party said: “Next year the AfD will enter the German parliament and Dexit will be top on our agenda.” The Left Party leader Sahra Wagenknech has also called for Germany to hold its own referenda on key EU decisions such as trade deals.

“I believe that it’s right to give the people the chance to vote on important issues like the planned free trade TTIP deal, or other European agreements,” she told Die Welt newspaper.

It’s all part of subliminally delivering to millions of television viewers indelible images of Clinton and the Democratic Party. Political strategists have been employing such tactics since conventions became televised spectacles after World War II.

Republicans last week had the same goal as Democrats this week: They want to trigger impressions of their party and their candidates as serious, loving mothers, fathers, soldiers and statesmen and stateswomen. For GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump the silhouetted smoke-filled entrance on Monday, after his wife Melania spoke, suggested the emergence of a strong leader and star.

“You’re combining aesthetics and psychology, and adding some spectacle,” said Tobe Berkovitz, an associate professor of advertising at Boston University and veteran political media consultant. “Nothing is left to coincidence,” added Kenn Venit, a Hamden, Connecticut-based media consultant. “Conventions are staged the same way as a Broadway show.”

The killing of an 85-year-old priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday added to security fears surrounding Francis' five-day visit for the World Youth Day celebrations, which were already high due to a string of violent attacks in France and Germany. Polish officials say they have deployed tens of thousands of security officials to cover the event.

Francis spoke to reporters on the papal plane en route from Rome to Poland. Asked about the slaying of the priest, Francis replied: "It's war, we don't have to be afraid to say this." After greeting reporters on his papal plane he returned to the topic to clarify that when he speaks of war, he is speaking of "a war of interests, for money, resources, dominion of peoples."

"I am not speaking of a war of religions. Religions don't want war. The others want war," Francis said. Francis spoke of the need for international efforts to resolve the wars forcing so many people to leave their homelands.

The top financial journalist launched his scathing attack on the "The European German Union" as he presented his regular slot on Italy’s economic talk show La Gabbia. He said: "I’m going to reveal to you something no-one will want you to know, because this monster that I now call ‘The European German Union’ was the creation of highly influential people you’ve never heard of. At the end of this very brief report of mine, you will all understand why we find ourselves in one of the worst catastrophes to hit democracy ever in history."

Italy, the third biggest economy in the eurozone, currently finds itself on the brink of political and financial chaos. But Italian prime minster Matteo Renzi's bailout plans to pump billions of euros into his country's troubled banking system has been met with scepticism from Brussels bureaucrats.

Barnard spoke directly to the nation’s leader alleging separate rules for Italy compared to Germany and Chancellor Angela Merkel. He said: "You went to meet Mrs Merkel to ask for a minor public funded bail-out of Italian banks and you got a sharp NO. But did anyone tell you that Germany from 2009 onwards bailed out its failing banks with public money?

"Banks, that is, with holes in their balance sheets visible from the Moon. Germany bailed them out to the tune of 704 billion euros. It was all paid for by European taxpayers’ money, public funds that is. It was done through the EU Commission of Mr Barroso and by Mr Mario Draghi at the ECB. Didn’t you know that Mr Renzi? Couldn’t you have barked this right into Ms Merkel’s face?" Barnard issued a strong message to his viewers, urging the Italian nation to join in saying no to Brussels. The commentator ended by saying: "Haven’t we had enough of this scam? Haven’t we had enough? Italexit NOW!"

The Cyberspace Administration of China imposed the ban on several major news portals, including Sohu.com Inc and NetEase Inc, Chinese media reported in identically worded articles citing an unidentified official from the agency’s Beijing office. The companies have “seriously violated” internet regulations by carrying plenty of news content obtained through original reporting, causing “huge negative effects,” according to a report that appeared in The Paper on Sunday.

The agency instructed the operators of mobile and online news services to dismantle “current-affairs news” operations on Friday, after earlier calling a halt to such activity at Tencent, according to people familiar with the situation. Like its peers, Asia’s largest internet company had developed a news operation and grown its team. Henceforth, they and other services can only carry reports provided by government-controlled print or online media, the people said, asking not to be identified because the issue is politically sensitive.

At that time, lack of food, algae blooms, water temperature were all being pondered as causes and, as Natural News reported, “The NOAA publicly announced that they considered radiation unlikely as the cause, but it wasn’t ruled out.” Now, in 2016, deaths across a number of species of sea life in the Pacific from Alaska to Mexico has increased. Fukushima radiation still flows across the waters. Yet mainstream media isn’t discussing this global disaster.

In 2014, The Journal of Environmental Radioactivity produced a paper entitled Fukushima derived radiocesium in subsistence-consumed northern fur seal and wild celery. They concluded “radionuclide quantities detected are small and no impact is expected…”

Arnie Gunderson, former nuclear industry executive, now with Fairewinds Energy Education disagrees: “10,000 baby sea lions dead on one California island… This is a crisis… Never seen anything like it… Very difficult to see so much death… Numbers skyrocketing at alarming rates.” The food chain runs from ocean depths to mountain tops and all points in between. We’re all being poisoned.

The Health Ranger reports, “There is GE contamination in almost everything. Even ‘non-GMO’ food products almost always contain trace levels of GMOs (often between .01% and 0.5%). A test for the mere presence of GMOs is not considered conclusive. What’s important is the level of GMOs in a particular food item. Some of the ‘natural’ items tested by the Cornucopia Institute showed GMO contamination levels between 28 and 100%…

“Numerous ‘natural’ products were indeed contaminated with high levels of GE ingredients, sometimes as high as 100%: Kashi GoLean, Mother’s Bumpers, Nutritious Living Hi-Lo, and General Mills Kix… Whole Foods’ 365 brand Corn Flakes contains ‘high levels’ of GMOs (more than 50% GE corn). Barbara’s Bakery Puffins cereal was also shown to contain more than 50% genetically engineered corn.”

After this report became public, Kashi and Whole foods began efforts to provide non-GMO products. And due to the new labeling law, General Mills, maker of Chex, Trix, Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Wheaties, et al, have to reveal which of their cereals are using genetically engineered ingredients. Unfortunately, General Mills still thinks GMOs are okay. Some progress has been made in our demand for clean food. Nature’s Path is a great food company. They’ve never used GMOs to begin with.

At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, an all-gender restroom has been stationed directly across from the press booth in a clear attempt to pander to the mindless liberal media. The bathroom is clearly just a repurposed women’s restroom with individual stalls, but that doesn’t stop the silly democrats from pretending that they’re full-fledged revolutionaries because they decided to slap a sign in front of an area where people go to relieve themselves. How groundbreaking…

Even more hilariously — in an attempt to be completely inclusive of all walks of life — there’s even a gluten-free zone in the arena. How this is even remotely necessary is a difficult thing to grasp, but that hasn’t prevented the DNC from pandering to those affected by gluten sensitivity — roughly 1% of the population. How many of that 1% could possibly be attending the Democratic National Convention? It seems less like an attempt to accommodate those with an actual problem and more like an attempt to appear more inclusive.

Unfortunately for them, many of us see through their gross schemes and false sense of moral superiority. We recognize that it’s all a scam. Now is the time to wake up the rest of the world.

After entering the town’s Norman church and taking several worshippers hostage, the two knifemen were heard to shout “Daesh” – the Arabic acronym for Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) – before slitting the throat of an 84-year-old Catholic priest, Father Jacques Hamel. By targeting this quiet French town, the killers, who were subsequently shot dead by French police marksmen, have shown that nowhere is safe from the malign designs of Islamist fanatics. Nor is the growing threat posed by ISIL militants confined to France.

As the seemingly relentless wave of terror attacks Europe has suffered in recent weeks demonstrates, ISIL extremists now appear capable of striking at will at any point on the continent that they choose. The political reverberations from this new wave of atrocities, which began with the Bastille Day attacks in Nice that claimed 84 lives, are certainly starting to be felt throughout Europe. And with elections due in Germany and France next year, they could have worrying implications for the continent’s future.

In Germany, the government’s failure to grasp the public’s mounting resentment towards Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open door policy in handling the migrant crisis has caused the remarkable rise of the Alternative for Germany party, which won almost 25 per cent of the vote in a state election in Saxony-Anhalt in March, almost beating Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats.

The prospect of Right-wing nationalists exercising real political power in France and Germany is one that even the most ardent Brexiteer will view with dismay. But the longer ISIL is able to maintain its terrorist offensive against Europe, then the more likely this becomes, especially if the fanatics continue to attack soft targets like the church selected in yesterday’s attack.

French president Francois Hollande said the country is now 'at war' with ISIS after the terror group claimed responsibility for the attack at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen. Meanwhile 'horrified' ex-Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said he feared "everything is being done to trigger a war of religions". Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a "merciless" response to the killing.

It comes after it was revealed that one of the killers, 19-year-old Adel K, was being monitored by electronic tag after twice attempting to join fanatics in Syria. His bail terms, however, allowed him to be unsupervised between 8.30am and 12.30pm. The attack happened between 9am and 11am.