Stem cells taken from a patient’s own heart have, for the first time, been used to repair damaged heart tissue, researchers claim.

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Cardiac cells ‘heal heart damage’

A form of cloning has been used to create personalised embryonic stem cells in humans, say researchers.

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Human ‘cloning’ makes stem cells

The Mexican army has seized a number of home-made tanks that have been used by cartels to protect drug trafficking routes.

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VIDEO: Drug runner’s home-made tanks seized

Japan’s nuclear-safety agency decided Tuesday morning to increase the crisis level at the country’s troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant from 5 to 7, the highest disaster ranking recognized internationally. The scary seven has only been used once in…

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Japan Raises Nuke Crisis Level

Mobile phones have been used to capture footage of an opposition rally in the Iranian capital Tehran, called in solidarity with the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

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VIDEO: Amateur footage of Tehran protests

A relative of a peer standing trial over his expenses tells the court he was shocked to learn his address had been used on claim forms.

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Nephew shocked at peer’s expenses

In Gaza donkeys have been used as an essential form of transport for decades, but they are facing competition from cheap vehicles smuggled into the territory.

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Tuktuk challenge to Gaza donkeys

An industrial pay dispute by an acting union may result in Warner Bros relocating the filming of The Hobbit from New Zealand, where the landscape has been used in the Lord of the Rings movies, to England.

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Why Hobbit filming may move to UK

China is trying to prevent a report which says Chinese bullets have been used against peacekeepers in Darfur from being published, diplomats say.

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China ‘opposes UN Darfur report’

Gene therapy has been used to correct an inherited blood disorder in what doctors say is a major step forward in treatment.

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Gene therapy ‘success’ revealed

More than £350m set aside for school buildings has not been used, a government spending watchdog says.

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£350m of school budget ‘unspent’