Move over John Hammond, the dinosaur-obsessed billionaire portrayed by Richard Attenborough in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film adaptation of Jurassic Park. Two Arab businessmen are planning to create a real-life Jurassic Park in Dubai, with more than 100 animatronic dinosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus rex.

It is the ultimate conundrum for vegetarians who think that meat is murder: a revolution in processed food that will see fresh meat grown from animal cells without a single cow, sheep or pig being killed. Using a new technique, lumps of meat would be cultured in laboratories rather than carved from livestock reared on a farm.

A son-in-law of the disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan — who sold nuclear secrets to Iran and North Korea — has been arrested in Islamabad for allegedly attacking two British diplomats, it emerged on Friday. A gang of about five young men viciously assaulted the British couple, officials said.

Iraq’s leaders were racing to complete a draft Constitution on Friday night just two days before the deadline — but the political drama bypassed most Iraqis, who were concentrating on the daily quest for electricity, clean water, jobs and security. Demonstrators in Baghdad demanded improvements in basic services.

More than 12 000 pages of often harrowing oral histories and 15 hours of radio transmissions from firefighters and other emergency workers who rushed to the World Trade Centre on September 11 were released by the City of New York on Friday. The histories were compiled in the months after the tragedy.

Giant sunflowers lean against the modest office where Shad Begum, a feisty 27-year-old social worker, is plotting to win a seat in this month’s Pakistani local elections. But hers is no ordinary campaign. In this quiet northern valley, tradition and threats have forced Shad into an electoral profile so low it is almost invisible.