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Australian biotech company Amrad has taken out a Europe-wide patent on a process which campaigners claim would allow animal-human hybrids. https://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,403160,00.html

In a heart-warming story from Italy, a mother in the Northern city of Pavia gave birth to a child with severe brain defects despite the urging of doctors to abort the baby. The baby boy lived for two hours after birth and was baptized Carlo Gabriele Maria Pio by the doctor. The city’s Bishop Giovanni Volta praised the Catholic parents of the boy as exemplary Christians. Village priest Luigi Ferrari assisted the parents, who already have two children, and thanked them “for giving the community an angel and a new go-between.