Italian doctor says first human clone will be born by Christmas

CONTROVERSIAL Italian doctor Severino Antinori claimed yesterday, that the world's first human created

He told the French newspaper Liberation that 50 couples unable to conceive because of male infertility had volunteered for his cloning programme.

"I transferred 18 embryos created by cloning, and I obtained one pregnancy," he said. "The foetus has a good morphology (shape)."