Motlanthe to become new SA president
South Africa: The ruling ANC said today its deputy leader Kgalema Motlanthe is to be president.
The ANC's Jessie Duarte said: "He will be the president until the next election."
Australia: Officials are expected to grant a patent to a South Korean scientist for his disputed work on cloning human embryos.
Hwang Woo-suk's "breakthroughs" in cloning stem cells were deemed fraudulent in 2005 when a key paper was found to have fake data.
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