Cloned baby ‘due in January’

THE world’s first ever cloned infant will be born in January 2003, according to controversial Italian fertility expert Severino Antinori.

The gynaecologist said the child was in the 33rd week of gestation and weighed an estimated 5.5 pounds, but he refused to say where the infant will be born.

Earlier this year, Antinori announced that human cloning programmes were under way in Russia and China, distant from the raging moral debate in the west.