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instead an asteroid did wipe out the dinosaurs. This is the BBC in London, first the news in detail.

BBC News. I am Roy Lamar.

Regulators in Britain have given a go-ahead in principle to the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research purposes. Scientists hope it can advance the quest for treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Britain is one of the first countries to legalize the creation of such hybrid embryos for research. The director of Stem Cell Biology at King's College in London, Dr. Stephen Minger said he welcomed the decision. "Putting human cells into animals is nothing new. There are thousands of people walking the streets of London who have pig heart valves. You know, so this mixing of human and animal cells is nothing new. What we're proposing to do is, though, very controversial, I can understand that. But I think it's less controversial than using human eggs in the thousands for, you know, for really research which is in its infancy. "

The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes says he fears many more people could be displaced by fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo before the situation improves. More than 220,000 people have already fled their homes amid fighting involving government forces, rebels and renegade soldiers in the North Kivu area. After arriving in eastern Congo, Mr. Holmes outlined his concerns. “There is a serious problem in North Kivu and the fighting may well get worse. North Kivu is one small province on the very, very large country and the fighting is in two territories of, of that province, so that's not very completely out of proportion to give the impression that Congo is in flames. At the same time, I don’t want to minimize the significance of a continuing fighting in the eastern, the, the underlying problems which are there.

A congressional ethics committee in Brazil has voted to remove the Senate President Renan Calheiros over allegations of corruption. The committee had been investigating Mr. Calheiros, a key ally of President Lula da Silva since doubts were raised as to how he could afford generous child support contributions. He said he earned extra money from farming, but supposed his customers denied ever doing business with him.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has told reporters that he was shocked and humbled by his visit to the Al Salaam camp in Darfur, which is home to about 50,000 internal displaced people. Mr. Ban called for international support for people who’d been made homeless. "I now really urge international community to help them return to their home and lands, give them a sense of security, bring peace as soon as possible. My commitment and resolve have been much strengthened and become firmer."

At least 11 people have been killed and more than 200 are still missing in Nicaragua after Hurricane Felix struck Central America on Tuesday. Thousands of people have been affected and are living in shelters, especially in the Miskitos' region on the border with Honduras.

This is BBC World News.

A Federal judge in the United States has temporarily blocked the extradition to France of the former Panamanian military ruler Manuel Noriega, ahead of a new appeal by his defense team. General Noriega is due to be sent to France where he was sentenced to 10 years for money laundering.


Rescuers in the American state of Nevada say that they had no good leads in the search for the missing pilot and adventurer Steve Fossett. He has not been heard from since he took off in a single-engine plane on Monday. And Nevada Civil Air Patrol spokeswoman Major Cynthia Ryan said that 13 planes were looking for Mr. Fossett. "This man has a wonderful history of being able to walk out on his own, and boy, I'll tell you, if anyone has to be lost out there, this guy has the skills to survive."

The US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says the arrests of three terror suspects in Germany are a reminder of al-Qaeda's intent to wage war on the West. The German authorities said earlier the men were trained at camps run by groups linked to al-Qaeda in Pakistan. Steve Rosenberg reports.

It's alleged that the men, two Germans and one Turkish citizen were members of an Islamic extremist group with links to al-Qaeda were in the final stages of preparing to blow up a series of targets inside Germany, including US military facilities as well as civilian locations. Police recovered more than 700 kilograms of liquid chemicals, enough to create a massive bomb. Government sources have told the BBC they believed at least seven more members of the terror cell are still at large.

The world famous Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti is reported to be in a very serious condition after his health suddenly deteriorated. Mr. Pavarotti, who is 71, had surgery for pancreatic cancer a year ago and underwent more than two weeks of hospital tests last month.

BBC World News.