Britons attack US cloning ban bid
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Britain's Royal Society is backing a campaign to stop the US securing a world ban on all forms of human cloning.
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Britain has condemned Russia's refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoi over the Litvinenko murder.
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LONDON - Britain&#39;s leading scientific institution said yesterday it is calling for support from other countries to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty to ban human cloning.
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Unless you work for UK.gov Analysis The UK government granted us ownership of our own DNA yesterday with the launch of the new Human Tissue Act.â¦
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The US defence secretary is under attack over machine-signed letters to the families of US soldiers killed in action.
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The United States was set to bring its call for a total ban on human cloning back to the UN on Thursday as the world community again struggled for consensus on the divisive issue.
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Talks at the United Nations  appear to have failed to avert a new U.N. confrontation over a  U.S.-led drive to ban all cloning of human embryos including  for stem cell research, diplomats said on Thursday.
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A leading Vatican official on Friday condemned a US company's announcement that it had created cloned human embryos from adult skin cells.
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&quot;It is clear that if the UN bans all forms of human cloning, the UK, and other countries which currently permit carefully regulated therapeutic cloning, will not sign up to it.
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The UN General Assembly&#39;s legal committee begins a two-day debate today that will focus on the contentious issue. There is support among member states for a treaty banning human cloning, but divisions remain
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Britain granted its first license for human cloning Wednesday, joining South Korea on the leading edge of stem cell research, which is restricted by the Bush administration and which many scientists believe may lead to new treatments for a range of diseases.
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A campaign to raise awareness about software patents has found strong opposition to their introduction in the United Kingdom.
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A U.S.-led campaign to ban all  cloning of human embryos, including for stem-cell research, was  rejected by a divided United Nations on Friday as a General  Assembly committee opted for a nonbinding declaration against  human cloning.
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The Vatican, in its first speech ever to the U.N. General Assembly, called Wednesday for a total ban on human cloning and criticized the war in Iraq and unilateral responses to terrorism.
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The government is looking into calls to lift a ban on creating embryos from dying children to aid key research.
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Catholic lawmakers in Australia rebelled Wednesday against threats from the church of &quot;consequences&quot; if they vote in favour of overturning a ban on therapeutic cloning.
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Business & money: Mounting US crackdown on foreign companies doing business with Iran provoke opposition in Europe.