TOKYO - JAPANESE hospitals are running a clinical trial on the world's first custom-made bones which would fit neatly into patients' skulls and eventually give way to real bones.

If successful, the Japanese method could open the way for doctors to create new bones within hours of an accident so long as the patient has electronic data on file.

SASKATOON (Saskatchewan) - A LEADING researcher says one of the largest meteors to streak over Canada in the last decade broke up into pieces that may have landed in central Saskatchewan.

Planetary lecturer Alan Hildebrand from the University of Calgary said the meteor that lit up the skies earlier this week could likely be seen up to 700km away into the northern United States.

MOSCOW - GREATER investment in combatting Aids is failing to slow its spread in Russia, the director of the Russian federal Aids centre Vadim Pokrovsky said on Friday.