From an article of the same title BBCNews.com:

Scientists have condemned a leading Catholic cardinal's calls for those who carry out embryonic stem cell research to be excommunicated.

Vatican-based Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo told a Catholic magazine such research was "the same as abortion".

He said excommunication should apply to "all women, doctors and researchers who eliminate embryos"...

But Dr Stephen Minger, leading stem cell expert at Kings College London, said: "Having been raised a Catholic, I found this stance really outrageous.

"Are they going to excommunicate IVF doctors, nurses and embryologists who routinely put millions of embryos down the sink every year throughout the world?

"It is more ethical to use embryos that are going to be destroyed anyway for the general benefit of mankind than simply putting them down the sink."

From YouTube, here's George Bush singing U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday:

From a Reuters article of the same title on MSNBC.com:

Israeli doctors have turned to a novel method to boost success rates of fertility treatments —clowning around.

Although funny men with red noses and big feet are popular on children's wards in hospitals they are rarely, if ever, seen entertaining women trying to get pregnant.

But after introducing clown therapy to patients having in-vitro fertilization, doctors at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Zerifin, Israel, said the conception rate rose from 20 to 35 percent.