A US-BASED fertility doctor claimed to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women.

IT WAS always going to be close but it took two hours and 34 minutes and two periods of overtime for Ireland to achieve a five point victory over Cyprus in a European championship semi-final round tie at The Mardyke Arena in Cork last night.

Scientists and doctors argued publicly today over whether cloning is a sound science or an error-prone process that could produce abnormal embryos.