JOHANNESBURG - Striking miners killed one man by setting him on fire while another was shot and seriously wounded in renewed labour unrest in South Africa that saw police firing tear gas and rubber bullets. The violence near an Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) mine has escalated since the company dismissed 12,000 striking miners last Friday. Police said at least one person "is fighting for his life" in the hospital after being shot. It was unclear if the victim was a miner or whether the bullet had been fired by police. Another person died after being set alight by striking workers. AP
SANAA - A masked gunman has assassinated a Yemeni security official at the US embassy in a drive-by shooting. Yemeni officials said the killing in the capital bore the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda attack, but it was too early to determine if the group was behind it. Anti-American violence in the Middle East has risen over the past month, most of it triggered by an anti-Islamic video made privately in the United States. The latest attack in Yemen, however, may be more tied to domestic tensions. The assassination resembles other attacks targeting Yemeni intelligence, military and security officials in retaliation for a military offensive by Yemen's US-backed government against al-Qaeda's branch in the country. AP
LONDON - Keith Campbell, a prominent biologist who worked on cloning Dolly the sheep, has died at 58. The University of Nottingham said Campbell, who worked on animal improvement and cloning since 1999, died last Friday. The cause of death was not known. Campbell began researching animal cloning at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in 1991. His work led to the birth in 1997 of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. The sheep's creation became a scientific sensation and sparked debates about the ethics of cloning. Dolly died in 2003. AP
