Lunch hour IVF available soon
Monday April 21 2008
A NEW approach to fertility treatment that could allow women to have a cheaper form of IVF in their lunch hour is being developed.
The Invocell device is designed to enable IVF to be performed without complex laboratory equipment and could make the procedure faster. The first appointment would take about 90 minutes and the second half an hour, according to BioXcell, the company that developed the device
Putin rumour newspaper closes
Moskovsky Korrespondent, the newspaper that first reported rumours of a marriage between Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva, a 24-year-old gymnast, has closed, shortly after the president told journalists it was unacceptable to pry into his private life.
The head of the paper's parent company, Artem Artemov, told journalists the paper was being "temporarily halted" due to its lack of profitability, and insisted there was no political subtext to the decision.
Clashes kill 81, say rights group
Clashes between insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops killed 81 people in Mogadishu in one day, a prominent local human rights group said yesterday.
"Eighty-one people were killed and 119 more were wounded in the violence in Mogadishu since Saturday," said Sudan Ali Ahmed, chairman of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Organisation.
Environment plea by Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama said yesterday the need for environmental responsibility dovetails with Buddhist teachings on valuing human life, whether that is one person or the world's entire population.
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader addressed crowds of more than 7,000 during a weekend of lectures at the University of Michigan. "Taking care of our planet, environment, is something like taking care of our own home", he said
Rice backs militia crackdown
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice backed Iraq's crackdown on militias in a visit yesterday to Baghdad, where the worst fighting in weeks killed 23 after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr threatened all-out war.
Rockets blasted the Green Zone compound where Rice met Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other officials and praised their month-old campaign against Sadr's followers.
