鈥淲e do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of the savage principle of the survival of the fittest.鈥�
South African president Thabo Mbeki opening the World Summit in Johannesburg (26 August)
鈥淭he evidence shows that the Japanese troops used bacteriological weapons.鈥�
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Judge Koji Iwata of the Tokyo District Court admits germ warfare killed many in China 鈥� but ruled that the survivors had no right to compensation (Japan Today, 27 August)
鈥淚t would be possible to carry your own child in the same womb, donated by [your] mother, as you developed in.鈥�
Mats Br盲nnstr枚m of Gothenburg University, who has just carried out the first womb transplant in mice and plans to try it in humans (Society of Endocrinology press release, 21 August)
鈥淚鈥檇 stake my life that there won鈥檛 be a living thylacine in 10 years.鈥�
Janette Norman of Australia鈥檚 Museum Victoria dismisses attempts by a team in Sydney to bring back the extinct Tasmanian tiger by cloning a preserved specimen (AFP news, 22 August)
鈥淭here does have to be some kind of a public message that stealing is stealing is stealing.鈥�
John Malcolm of the US Department of Justice warns that people who copy files over the Internet may soon face prosecution (Cnet.com, 20 August)
鈥淭his doesn鈥檛 happen very often in Northallerton.鈥�
Siobhan Cowton, 14, on being struck on the foot by a meteorite outside her home in a North Yorkshire town (The Daily Mail, London, 27 August)