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Should cloned animals be used for food?

Agriculture - Dolly the sheep was the first and most famous animal clone, created back in 1996. Since then, cows, pigs, goats, horses, mice, cats and dogs have also been cloned. So should these animals be used for commercial purposes? Not according to Parliament's Agriculture Committee. In June, they called for an EU ban on the cloning of animals for food. Next week MEPs will question the Commission about the issue during the first September plenary. 

Member States endorse Commission proposal to reduce standby electricity consumption

During yesterday's meeting of the Ecodesign Regulatory Committee, EU Member States endorsed the Commission's proposal for a regulation reducing standby energy consumption of household and office products. The regulation lays down energy efficiency requirements for all products sold in Europe, thus cutting the EU's standby electricity consumption by almost 75% by 2020.

Vaccine shots leave mark on Rio Grande Valley residents

Texas Army National Guard Spc. Stephanie Cardenas, an Emergency Medical Technician for Joint Forces Headquarters of San Antonio, gives a vaccination shot to four-year-old Jeremiah Burkett while he is comforted by his mother. The boy will be ready for pre-kindergarten this fall, at least as far as immunizations go, thanks to the free vaccinations offered in Brownsville during Operation Lone Star. (Texas National Guard photo by Spc. Derek Del Rosario, 100th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

BAGHDAD: POWER PLANT ATTACKED, THOUSANDS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY

Federal High Court Sentences Genocide Convict to Death

RAMADI, US BOMBINGS CAUSE VICTIMS

CLEMENTINA CANTONI IS FREE - 2

Spotlight: Genesis spacecraft returns to Earth Sept. 2004

Saint Valentine (or Valentinus)

U.S. soldiers kill five Iraqi civilians protesting against occupation

Fresh attacks by the resistance and anti-U.S. demonstrations

THE FANCONI ANAEMIA/BRCA PATHWAY

Fanconi anaemia (FA) is a rare genetic cancer-susceptibility syndrome that is characterized by congenital abnormalities, bone-marrow failure and cellular sensitivity to DNA crosslinking agents. Seven FA-associated genes have recently been cloned, and their products were found to interact with well-known DNA-damage-response proteins, including BRCA1, ATM and NBS1. The FA proteins could therefore be involved in the cell-cycle checkpoint and DNA-repair pathways. Recent studies implicate the FA proteins in the process of repairing chromosome defects that occur during homologous recombination, and disruption of the FA genes results in chromosome instability ”€ a common feature of many human cancers.

Mother accused of killing her 5 children goes on trial

HOUSTON, Texas -- Andrea Yates "did not appreciate the wrongfulness of her acts" when she drowned her children in a bathtub last year, a defense attorney said Monday during opening statements in her trial.