A ban on assisted suicides the verdict means doctors will be allowed to counsel terminally ill patients are ending their lives and provide them with lethal drugs alone medical professionals will not be permitted to administer the drugs themselves. Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has appealed for calm after 3 days of sectarian riots that have rocked the capital delhi at least 20 people lost their lives during demonstrations for and against a new citizenship. Egypt has been holding a military funeral for former president Hosni Mubarak he ruled egypt autocratically for 30 years before being ousted in the arab spring protests of 2011 he died tuesday at the age of 91. This is the news from berlin for more followers on twitter or visit our website. Around the world people are living longer today than ever before graying aging societies with more time than ever to ponder death well today in a landmark ruling germanys highest court overturned a ban on assisted suicide saying that the freedoms guaranteed in the constitution extend to what could be the final decision that a person makes the decision to die im burnt off in berlin this is the day. You know that everybody should be able to its a lapse of being necessary to at least allow the possibility of suicide shifts to speak of political controversy i hope for the future that society will discuss this. And i hope there will be enough profit from society that people wont necessarily want to end their lives