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A small company in London, UK, claims to have developed a technique that overturns scientific dogma and could revolutionise medicine. It says it can turn ordinary blood into cells capable of regenerating damaged or diseased tissues. This could transform the treatment of everything from heart disease to Parkinson's.

On Friday, Nebraska's highest court ruled that a man whose ex-wife may have lied to him about being the father of their child cannot sue the woman for fraud and emotional distress. Why not? IN ANY other realm of the law this would be a classic case of fraud. Robert Day had already been divorced from his wife for six years when he realized he was out of town when she conceived. A DNA test proved with 100 percent certainty that Adam wasn't his. Well Robert Day alleged that mom lied about her due date to fool him. He had...

The controversial Italian doctor who wants to clone a human being has told the BBC he thinks a woman will be pregnant with the first human clone this year. "I think in three or four months there is the first pregnancy," Severino Antinori told BBC Radio 4's Frontiers programme. Asked whether he would have cloned a human by September 2002, Dr Antinori said: "I hope and I believe." The cloning of human beings for reproductive purposes is banned in most countries and viewed as dangerous and undesirable by most scientists and doctors. Imperfect technique Dr Antinori was suspended from a ...

50,000 ethnic Albanians have fled Macedonia in the country's four-month old conflict, with more than 20,000 people internally displaced, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Friday. The vast majority of the refugees -- 46,500 -- have fled to Kosovo, with 3,500 seeking refuge in southern Serbia, agency spokeswoman Astrid van Genderen Stort said. In recent days, refugees had been arriving from the Macedonian capital Skopje and its outskirts, which ethnic Albanian rebels have threatened to attack in their conflict with Macedonian forces. Since the conflict began in February, the number of internally displaced persons within Macedonia has risen to 23,500, ...

Serbian police have accused Slobodan Milosevic of covering up the murder of thousands of civilians in Kosovo, in a first step towards ensuring that the former Yugoslav president will finally be held accountable for war crimes committed by his forces. Yesterday, police revealed graphic details of how Mr Milosevic ordered police chiefs to suppress evidence of war crimes against the majority Albanians in Kosovo, including systematically disposing of the bodies of murdered Albanians. The order was given at a secret meeting in Belgrade in March 1999, apparently just after Nato air strikes began. The Serbian Interior Ministry said that the ...

A joint patrol of American and Russian troops opened fire on ethnic Albanian rebels in southern Kosovo, wounding one of them. The patrol responded when it was shot at by the Albanians near the village of Vela Glava, a US Army spokesman said.

SECURITY forces in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia stepped up an offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels yesterday in fighting that inflicted heavy civilian casualties as guerrillas used women and children as human shields, diplomatic and military sources said. At least five civilians were killed and several others, including children, were seriously wounded in the offensive against National Liberation Army (NLA) fighters. It began on Thursday after ten Slav soldiers and police were killed by rebels in two separate ambushes close to Kosovo, said the International Committee of the Red Cross and Albanian guerrilla sources, quoted by Belgrade’s independent B-92 ...

SERBIAN sources said last night that they had begun a counter-offensive to liberate 20 officers besieged in their police station by Kosovo Liberation Army fighters. The army said it was using heavy armour and 1,000 "anti-terrorist" troops, but it remained unclear if the action had done more than intensify the fighting and reinforce some Serb positions on the third straight day of heavy fighting. Serb sources said eight KLA men were captured. Senior KLA commanders said that they aimed to liberate all of the Serbian province of Kosovo after taking the strategic southwestern town of Orahovac, with a population of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell certified on Monday that Yugoslavia has been cooperating with the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands, thus ensuring no interruption in U.S. aid to the Belgrade government. The announcement came a day after the arrest of former President Slobodan Milosevic, but officials said his detention was not a condition for continuing the administration's $100 million aid program for Yugoslavia. About half of that aid has not been spent and would have been subject to a cutoff if Powell had refused to certify. The certification also means continuation of U.S. support for ...

Is contamination caused by depleted uranium dust the explanation for so-called Gulf War syndrome and cancer clusters in Iraq? A book published this week in France examines the evidence. Lara Marlowe reports. Is depleted uranium, the waste product of the nuclear industry used to make tank-piercing weapons, responsible for Gulf War syndrome and Balkans syndrome? The US Department of Defence and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation both still deny it. But in July 1990 - the month before Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait - a report submitted to the US army by Science Applications International Corporation compared the merits of tungsten ...

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - A Kosovo court on Thursday found a Serb man guilty of genocide in a verdict believed to be the first conviction on that charge in the province. The court in the northern town of Mitrovica sentenced Miroslav Vuckovic, 52, to 14 years in prison. A panel of four Kosovo Albanian judges and one international judge deliberated for 12 hours before delivering the verdict in the evening. Vuckovic who has pleaded not guilty, was accused of belonging to a Serb paramilitary group which terrorized ethnic Albanians in northern Kosovo during NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. ...

Chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte says her tribunal could open an investigation into Nato's use of weapons containing depleted uranium. Uranium-tipped ammunition has been blamed for cases of cancer among peacekeeping soldiers, Nato troops and civilians. Speaking to the Italian press, Mrs del Ponte said she had unsuccessfully examined similar allegations during the bombing of Kosovo, but new facts had now emerged. She gave no details, saying she would await the results of scientific studies being carried out by the European Union and several of its member countries. Seven Italians, five Belgians, two Dutch nationals, two Spaniards, ...

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC could be brought to justice within a month on charges of fraud, corruption and war crimes, Serbia’s newly elected prime minister said yesterday after sweeping the former dictator and his cronies from power in last weekend’s parliamentary elections. “We have even now enough evidence in the newspapers about his (Milosevic’s) abuse of power,” Zoran Djindjic told the BBC. “I think it will start in January and he will face justice in Serbia. People wouldn’t accept to give him amnesty for what he has done.” In an ominous move for Milosevic, Mr Djindjic also hinted that the warlord who ...

Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic must face trial "as soon as possible" for the conflicts he helped spark in the Balkans, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic told AFP Wednesday. But the trial -- which should be preceded by a South African-style truth commission -- should be in Serbia and not in a UN court, he said. Milosevic "has to pay for what he did or inspired or organised as far as people in Bosnia and Croatia and all over Serbia are concerned," said Svilanovic, a leader of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS). "I will push ... toward a prosecution ...

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE ROCKFORD INSTITUTE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT KOSTUNICA ON AMERICAN-YUGOSLAV RELATIONS: TIME FOR "A FRESH START" AFTER "A VERY DIFFICULT DECADE" The impending change of administration provides the United States and Yugoslavia with an opportunity to make a fresh start, "after a very difficult decade," and regardless of who gets into the White House, Yugoslavia's president said today in a message to a conference in Washington. In a video-taped address to The Rockford Institute's conference on American policy in the Balkans, President Vojislav Kostunica said that "some of the wounds of that decade will take ...

Neglected or oppressed by Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia's Muslim community -- concentrated in the poor central region of Sandjak -- is pinning its hopes on Belgrade's new administration to grant it autonomy. The skyline of Novi Pazar, the grey and dusty capital of this mountainous zone situated both in Serbia and Montenegro, bristles with the minarets of the town's 35 mosques, a testament to the region's Islamic legacy here. In the center of the town of 80,000, the only Muslim religious secondary school in Yugoslavia -- except for in the breakaway province of Kosovo -- takes in some 200 pupils, boys ...

Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's landmark acknowledgement of atrocities committed under the regime of ousted leader Slobodan Milosevic got a cautious welcome in Serbia on Wednesday. The pro-reform leader, who took office in the wake of September 24 elections, declared on American television Tuesday that he was "ready ... to accept the guilt for all the people who have been killed." His supporters welcomed the president's statement in a CBS "60 Minutes" interview that he would take responsibility "as a Serb" for "many of these crimes" perpetrated in the course of three Balkan wars. Dusan Janjic, of the Belgrade-based Ethnic Relations ...

Here are some articles concerning the Serbs' feelings towards Milosevic in 1996. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/bosnia/december96/serbia2_12-2.html http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/december96/serbia_12-12a.html http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/bosnia/december96/serbia_12-2.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/extra/browse/html/serbed_121096.html

For the first time, Yugoslavian television has shown footage of Serb war crimes committed in the Balkans over the last decade. Observers say such a broadcast of news clips detailing Serb-committed atrocities in Bosnia and Kosovo would have been unthinkable during the Milosevic era. However, the United States has appeared to soften its demand that Mr Milosevic, who was swept from power by a popular uprising, be extradited immediately to the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. On Sunday US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright refused to link economic aid to Mr Milosevic's extradition, saying the new President, Vojislav ...

Here's the link to the Snopes website. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/clinton.htm