The lawyers for the Occupy Wall Street protesters are challenging the
eviction
. They've filed an injunction with the court, saying essentially that the mayor and the city needed a court order in order to evict the protesters from the park and they didn't get one. And there is a hearing on this as to whether the eviction is in fact legal. In the meantime, the protesters are still
milling about
. It's not clear what's going to happen next, but definitely the activists are around in the streets of Manhattan and vowing to
keep up
their protests.
An American biotechnology company says it's been forced to stop trials using
embryonic
stem cells in humans owing to the high costs. The trials, the first of their kind in the world, involve the treatment of patients with spinal injuries. Matt McGrath reports.
Just over a year ago, Geron Corporation announced that they had enrolled their first patients in a clinical trial of embryonic stem cells to treat spinal injuries. It was hoped that the cells, which have the potential to develop into any type of body tissue, would repair damaged
spines
and one day allow patients to walk again. But the company say that while the treatment has been well tolerated by patients and had no serious adverse events, the large financial burden involved has forced them to axe the trial, lay off staff and halt development of their stem cell programmes.
A Liberian court has cleared the way for three radio stations to reopen in spite of finding them guilty of spreading hate messages and inciting violence. The stations were closed last week because of their coverage of clashes between the opposition and the police on the eve of the presidential election run-off.