Babies made by cloning-type technique die prematurely.
Doctors have created the first pregnancies using a controversial technique related to cloning. The babies died before birth.
Other experts have condemned the procedure because the health risks are unknown. “You’d find it hard to find people that support it,” says reproductive-medicine researcher Chris Barratt of the University of [...]

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These mutant Tories are as doomed as Dr Frankenstein
By PETER HITCHENS, Mail on Sunday
November 02, 2003
squalid putsch and a series of dirty deals will not save the Tory Party. Nothing will save the Tory Party.
The efforts to do so are macabre and ugly, like the goings-on in Dr Frankenstein’s laboratory. [...]

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The sad home owning fetish that’s made fools of us all
by PETER HITCHENS, Mail on Sunday
October 26, 2003
he leaked plan to tax house sales at 40 per cent - which will eventually come true, just wait and see - doesn’t surprise me at all.
The great British home-owning fetish has always looked [...]

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If the Queen doesn’t save us, nothing will save her
By PETER HITCHENS, Mail on Sunday
October 19, 2003
nless the Queen blocks the new European Constitution, we might as well get rid of her now. I am sorry to put this so bluntly.
I have defended the Monarchy against all comers for years. This [...]

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Meddling Prescott will wipe England off the map
By PETER HITCHENS, Mail on Sunday
November 9, 2003
ohn Prescott’s sinister plan to cut England up into invented regions is a grave danger to what is left of our freedom.
Prescott plays cleverly on his resemblance to the comedian Les Dawson, but there is really nothing [...]

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Pam Mitchelhill’s ordeal is a warning about ID cards
By PETER HITCHENS, Mail on Sunday
November 16, 2003
ost people accept the idea of identity cards because they wrongly think that the authorities are on the same side as the rest of us.
Too few of us yet realise that this simply is not so [...]

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‘Anti-Semitic’ MP expelled

Hohmann will retain his seat in the Bundestag
Germany’s Christian Democrat (CDU) opposition has voted to expel from the parliamentary party an MP accused of making an anti-Semitic speech.
The CDU’s Martin Hohmann compared the actions of Jews in the 1917 Russian revolution with those of the Nazis.
Despite the expulsion vote of [...]

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The naturally occurring virus does not infect people
US scientists have produced a wholly artificial virus using a method they claim could lead to new lifeforms.
These synthetic organisms - on the scale of bacteria - could be engineered to produce clean energy or mop up pollution, the researchers say.
It is only the [...]

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Potato disease to cost £400,000

Middlewood Farm in Bwlch is the focus of the investigation

Disease outbreak shocks community
Farmer: ‘I’m the victim’
An outbreak of the world’s most damaging potato disease in mid Wales is going to cost the farm involved £400,000.
The battle to stop the ring rot spreading on Middlewood farm in [...]

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Thousands of women lost husbands, sons and brothers at Srebrenica
The president of Serbia-Montenegro has apologised to the people of Bosnia-Hercegovina for atrocities committed during the 1992-1995 war.
Svetozar Marovic issued the apology - the first by a Belgrade official - during a visit to the Bosnian capital.
“Individuals are guilty and they need [...]

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US fossil spins web of intrigue
By Helen Briggs
BBC News Online
The ancient cousins of modern spiders could have been spinning webs 55 million years before the reign of the dinosaurs, a scientist says.
What appear to be silk-spinning structures have been found on the body of an ancient arachnid fossil.
The 300-million-year-old creature, [...]

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Sports stars blamed for obesity

Beckham promotes Pepsi
David Beckham and other stars advertising sweets and fizzy drinks have been blamed by MPs for helping children to become obese.
The attack came from the chairman of the Commons health select committee, as it questioned advertisers on their impact on children.
Former England football captain Gary Lineker [...]

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Rugby World Cup results and fixtures
All kick-off times GMT.
Friday 10 October
Australia 24-8 Argentina (Pool A)

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Saturday 11 October
New Zealand 70-7 Italy (Pool D)

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Ireland 45-17 Romania (Pool A)
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France 61-18 Fiji (Pool B)
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South Africa 72-6 Uruguay (Pool C)
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Sunday 12 October
Wales 41-10 Canada (D)

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Scotland 32-11 [...]

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Rugby World Cup pools

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POOL A
Team Pld W D L F A Pts
Australia 4 4 0 0 273 33 18
Ireland 4 3 0 1 [...]

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EU scores steel victory over US

Steel tariffs have raised costs for US industry
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has confirmed that US tariffs on steel imports are illegal.
The WTO’s announcement is a victory for the European Union (EU), and puts fresh pressure on Washington to withdraw import duties on steel.
The WTO appellate body [...]

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Georgian protesters block troops

Protesters have been on the streets for days
Georgian protesters are increasing pressure on President Eduard Shevardnadze after a disputed election.
On Monday, they blocked a railway line, preventing the government from bringing fresh troops to the capital Tbilisi.
Other activists have threatened to go on hunger strike after parliamentary elections just [...]

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Security has been increased at likely targets such as Heathrow
London is at greater risk of a terrorist attack by Islamic extremists than any major city in the US or Western Europe, a study has found.
The Control Risks Group said the UK’s role in the Iraq war and big Muslim population meant there [...]

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Party set to eject Jewish row MP

Mr Hohmann initially refused to apologise
Germany’s conservative opposition has begun the process of expelling from the party an MP accused of making anti-Semitic remarks.
The Christian Democrat (CDU)parliamentary and regional parties on Monday each set in motion the ejection of representative Martin Hohmann.
“CDU members must know what [...]

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Will Britain convert to Islam?
By PETER HITCHENS, Mail on Sunday
November 02, 2003
ould Islam one day become the established church of Britain? Might English women adopt the headscarves and enveloping robes of their Asian sisters, as the call to prayer rises and falls across the slate roofs of rainswept industrial cities?
The idea [...]

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