According to the findings of a new survey, most Americans are open to other forms of religion. A majority of them said that religion forms an important part of their life while others believed the way to salvation can assume different forms. The U. S. Religious Landscape Survey was carried out by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and revealed a spirit of tolerance among majority of Americans.

A gay patient from central Philippines is set to file formal charges against doctors and nurses of a hospital who posted over the Internet video-sharing site YouTube, a video of a medical procedure where doctors removed a perfume canister from his rectum. Worst, the video also showed the doctors and nurses, "cheering and shouting with excitement" as the canister was removed, which further ridiculed and embarrassed the victim, who remains unidentified.

A 39-year-old homosexual threatened to sue medical staffs at a government hospital in the south of Manila, capital city,over a YouTube video clip of his rectal surgery, officials said Thursday. The YouTube video clip showed the medical staff laughing while removing the blue canister stuck from the patient's rectum during sexual intercourse, at the Vicente Sotto Medical Memorial Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City, south of the Philippines on January 3.

A recently conducted survey revealed that British citizens are becoming more liberal when it comes to sexual activity, with most finding nothing wrong with having premarital sex. With 3,000 respondents, the annually taken British Social Attitudes survey revealed that 70 percent of its randomly-chosen respondents think that there is nothing particularly wrong with engaging in sexual encounters with partners before marriage. The number indicated a significant difference from the 48 percent recorded back in 1984.

The Londonderry Crown Court has sentenced a man to a two-year imprisonment for beating up his mother, hurting her in the face and body, in their residence. The court said Gerald McKinney, 25, had committed a cowardly and savage attack, BBC news reported.