Nobel prize-winning scientist suspended

Prominent New York scientific institution the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory suspended Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Dr James Watson yesterday over racially insensitive comments he was quoted as making in a newspaper interview.

Last weekend the Sunday Times newspaper printed an interview in which Watson was quoted as saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really".