The financial strain of infertility treatment is set to be eased by the launch of an insurance policy covering the loss of babies conceived using in-vitro fertilisation (IVF).
Insurance intermediary LRMS is introducing the ground-breaking policy, subject to regulatory approval, within the next fortnight. “Companies will have to tighten up and make sure that they are [...]

Most damaging were the comments that he was just not “presidential material”.Mr Bush was also judged to have patronised New Hampshire voters last week when he tried to make his tax plan comprehensible. “When are you going to get back to China and Taiwan?” she shouted. To which he snapped back: “I’m getting to it,” [...]

We pick up criminals that are illegal in the country, and we do nothing. I don’t think that’s a solution.”A final solution, though, will not be forthcoming. European governments will be deeply disappointed with the policies that are to be unveiled in Vienna next week, because they will be no more extreme than their own.The [...]

And just weeks ago, the longstanding leader of the Communists, now relabelled Izquierda Unida (United Left), the dogmatic Julio Anguita, stepped down after a series of heart attacks in favour of Mr Frutos.The right warns that a Socialist-IU government would withdraw from the euro, escalate taxes and bankrupt the pensions system. Each, with its powerful [...]

The thrust of both works is the same: “All men are potential rapists”; but the subtler treatment and shifting perspective make Love Remains by far the more accomplished.Nicholas and Chloe fall passionately in love at university. His first novel, Hope, was a passionate polemic against pornography and the violence it engenders towards women. Part of [...]