Hurdle to build artificial life knocked down Biologist and entrepreneur Craig Venter has announced the creation of a synthetic chromosome, knocking down one of the final hurdles to building the worlds first artificial life form.
Italian PM resigns Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned following 20 rocky months in office after the centre-left leader lost a vote of confidence in the Senate.
LTTE base raided, 50 dead In stepped-up fighting, Sri Lankan security forces gunned down at least 43 Tamil Tigers and lost seven soldiers in the islands restive north, where the Air Force jets on Friday raided an LTTE transport base in the rebel-dominated Kilinochchi area.
Pak tests N-capable missile Pakistan on Friday test-fired a 700 km-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile which could hit targets inside India.
32 pro-Taliban ultras killed At least 30 pro-Taliban militants and two soldiers were killed in fresh fighting that erupted on Friday in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan.
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