They found a 13% lower risk of rejection - where the body recognises the new heart as "foreign" and attacks it - in matched transplants over the first year.

BBC: Surgery

One result, Christopher said, is that the Gore team is choosing not to seek the rejection of absentee ballots in Seminole County, where questions have been raised about the role of a Republican official in filing ballot requests.

CNN: latimes.com: Anxious Christopher sounds conciliatory notes

But he said his team had found a backlog of 14, 000 cases where the UKBA failed to deal with requests to reconsider decisions after an initial rejection.

BBC: UKBA backlogs: Inspectors find thousands of new cases

Mr. ANTHONY ROMERO (Executive Director, ACLU): At a time when the Bush administration has tried to argue for even broader law enforcement powers and this idea of a unilateral president, where you have these inherent powers accrue to him because of the war on terror, it's a very strong rejection of that argument.

NPR: Bush's Wiretaps Ruled Unconstitutional