Embryologist doubts sect created human clone
Embryologist Severino Antinori
ROME (AFP) - A controversial Italian embryologist Friday cast doubt on claims by a mystery US sect to have created the world's first cloned human baby.
"An announcement of this type has no scientific corroboration and risks creating confusion," Severino Antinori told the Italian press agency Ansa.
A French scientist, who is a member of a Raelien cult which believes that mankind was created by extra-terrestrials, claimed on Friday that the group had produced the first-ever cloned human being.
The baby girl was born on Thursday by caesarean section and the birth "went very well," Brigitte Boisselier, member of the Raelian cult, said in a telephone interview with AFP from Florida.
Hamas leader vows "Zionist" entity will fall
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin vowed during a rally staged to mark the 15th anniversary of the Islamic group he founded, that the state of Israel had less than a quarter century left to live
"The Zionist entity will be destroyed within the first quarter of this century. I ask you to be patient," he told a crowd of 30,000 supporters marching north of Gaza City.