SCIENTISTS have made strides in lab research in personalised stem cells, reviving interest in a goal clouded by fraud and ethical storms.

Authorities in South Korea have arrested a suspected North Korean agent for allegedly plotting to assassinate a high-profile defector who died of heart failure earlier this month, a prosecutor said today.

REAL Estate Opportunities (REO) – the international property development firm controlled by Treasury Holdings – has moved closer to a total restructuring of its debt linked with its purchase of the Battersea Power Station site in London.

Two North Korean spies have admitted they tried to assassinate the regime’s most high-profile defector, a man who once mentored leader Kim Jong Il.

A SOUTH KOREAN court convicted disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk in connection with his stem-cell research.

IT’S not an image he will like, but Google — the world’s most popular internet search engine — could be displaying a “doodle” showing “an anxious” Brain Cowen and forlorn Celtic Tiger this St Patrick’s Day.

South Korea will send a team of nuclear experts to North Korea this week to survey Pyongyang’s unused fuel rods, the Foreign Ministry said today.

AN American woman blinked back tears of joy yesterday as she cuddled five puppies cloned from her beloved dead pit bull terrier.

A South Korean team led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk is claiming it has created 17 clones of an endangered dog breed popular in China.

The country that created the world’s first cloned dog plans to produce batches to sniff out drugs and explosives.

Ireland’s Graeme McDowell was well placed after a four-under-par opening round in the Ballantine’s Championship at the Pinx Golf Club.

Scientists have for the first time cloned embryos from an adult monkey, paving the way for major advances in human therapeutic cloning and stem cell research.

A top South Korean university confirmed today that a team of researchers at the school had cloned two wolves, ending weeks of investigation over the team’s alleged manipulation of data to inflate its accomplishment.

SOUTH Korean scientists who created the world’s first cloned dog said yesterday they have cloned two females of an endangered species of wolf.

A FORMER collaborator of disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk claimed yesterday he succeeded in cloning a female dog after last year’s breakthrough of creating the world’s first cloned dog, which was male.

An ex-colleague of disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk said today he had succeeded in cloning a bitch after last year’s breakthrough of creating the world’s first cloned dog.

An Irish company has purchased London’s Battersea Power Station and surrounding lands for €595m, it was confirmed today.

Irish property investment and development company Real Estate Opportunities Ltd (REO) has exchanged contracts to purchase Battersea Power Station and its surrounding lands in London from the Hwang family for £400m (€592m).

A FORMER South Korean university professor who was fired for allegedly falsifying stem cell research data filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking reinstatement, a court official and his lawyer said.

Tony-winning Chinese-American playwright David Henry Hwang is planning to stage a musical based on the life of late martial arts star Bruce Lee, a newspaper reported today.

DISGRACED Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk went on trial yesterday on charges of fraud and embezzlement in a scandal over faked stem cell research that undermined global hopes of dramatic new treatments for incurable diseases.

South Korean prosecutors today indicted disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk for alleged fraud, embezzlement and bioethics violations in a scandal over faked stem cell research that shook the world scientific community.

BRITAIN’S fertility watchdog yesterday postponed a decision on whether to allow women to donate eggs for cloning research until it had gathered opinion from experts and members of the public.

Disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk was today fired as professor of Seoul National University in South Korea over his stem cell fraud.

South Korean prosecutors found no evidence that scientist Hwang Woo-suk created cloned stem cells that matched patients as he claimed, corroborating a university probe that deemed the claims bogus, an official said today.

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun is expected to accept the resignation of an aide over the scandal surrounding disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk.

Disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk asked forgiveness from fellow South Koreans today for his fraudulent publications on human stem cell research, but blamed the scandal on junior researchers who he said deceived him.

South Korea’s disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk faked his landmark 2004 claim to have cloned human embryonic stem cells, but did create the world’s first cloned dog, Seoul National University said today.

A SOUTH KOREAN investigation panel looking into the works of a disgraced scientist said yesterday it could not yet reach a conclusion on whether his team produced the world’s first cloned dog.

A SUPERSTAR scientist who led the world in stem cell and therapeutic cloning research faces ruin and disgrace after being accused of fabricating results.

While South Korea’s most famous scientist was resigning today in scandal after his university said key research was faked, one of his greatest purported breakthroughs was cavorting in the snow.

Researcher Hwang Woo-suk apologised today and resigned from a South Korean university after the school said he fabricated results in stem-cell research that had raised hopes of new cures for hard-to-treat diseases.

A former colleague of embattled South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk said today he has asked his university to widen its investigation into the stem cell researcher’s work, and to review earlier purported breakthroughs.

South Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk stood by his purported breakthroughs in stem cell technology today despite accusations he falsified key evidence.

A doctor who provided human eggs for research by cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk claimed today that the South Korean scientist admitted most of the stem cells he produced and documented in a journal article were faked, according to news reports.

THE academic world has been shaken over the admission of ethical lapses by the world’s leading cloning scientist.

South Korean cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk publicly apologised today for ethics lapses, admitting two female scientists in his lab donated their own eggs for research.

FRANKENSTEIN science or the dawn of a world where deadly diseases can be cured, the creation of the first embryonic stem cells genetically tailored to match a group of patients has taken the debate to a dizzying new level.

A SOUTH Korean woman paralysed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood.

South Korean police were today seeking permission from a court to press charges against a 53-year-old man who stabbed 10 kindergarten children during a 30 minute rampage.

The World Cup is not yet over, but already South Korea’s history-making side is breaking up.

Ballack’s moment of despair came on 71 minutes when he was cautioned for a foul outside the area on Lee.

Michael Ballack put aside his disappointment at being suspended for the World Cup Final by scoring the goal which took Germany there.