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New evidence that fMRI experiments are valid measure of neuron activity
Among the more than a quarter of a million published functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies are assays that have purported to locate our mental experiences of religion , love and even the future in the brain. Recently, researchers even investigated the reliability of the scans to find out whether they should hold up in court as evidence of past memories. But increasingly, scientists and onlookers alike have been wondering whether these flashes in the brain have been telling us what we thought they were--or whether the images were little more than biological chaff . [More]
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Video of American drowned saving son shocks Italy
ROME (Reuters) - An amateur video of an American woman who died saving her son when they were hit by a freak wave shocked Italy on Sunday. The mobile phone footage shows the woman, identified by local police as 49-year-old Anne Sharrie Duncan, standing with her son and a friend on a pier in the southern Italian resort of Positano when they are hit by the wave late on Saturday.
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Shuttle Atlantis reaches space station on last trip
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station Sunday to deliver a new Russian module and spare parts needed to keep the outpost operational after two final shuttle visits this year.
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WHO study has no clear answer on phones and cancer
LONDON (Reuters) - Experts who studied almost 13,000 cell phone users over 10 years, hoping to find out whether the mobile devices cause brain tumors, said on Sunday their research gave no clear answer.
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Yemen Qaeda threatens attacks on U.S. over cleric: website
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's regional wing in Yemen has threatened the United States with more attacks should any harm come to a U.S.-born radical cleric wanted dead or alive by Washington, according to an audio tape posted online on Sunday.
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Pope tells crowd, priests must resist temptation
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, facing the worst crisis of his five-year-old papacy because of a widening sexual abuse scandal, told a crowd of nearly 200,000 Sunday that priests must guard against worldly temptation.
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Turkish PM to Tehran in bid to seal nuclear swap
TEHRAN/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan flew to Tehran on Sunday seeking to seal a deal with Iran on a nuclear fuel swap that could help end a stand-off with the West over its atomic programme.
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U.N. head Ban to attend Afghanistan conference
KABUL (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend a conference to be held in Kabul in July to bolster international support for President Hamid Karzai's plans to reintegrate Taliban combatants.
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New ash cloud disrupts UK, Ireland air travel
DUBLIN (Reuters) - A new cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland triggered fresh disruptions in European air travel on Sunday, as Britain and Ireland shut down major airports and a no-fly zone was imposed across southern parts of UK airspace.
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Al Qaeda's Iraq network replaces slain leaders
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate has appointed new leaders to replace senior commanders killed by U.S. and Iraqi forces, after naming a "war minister" who threatened bloody days for the country's majority Shi'ites.
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France denies deal with Iran over released teacher
PARIS (Reuters) - France denied on Sunday cutting a deal with Iran to secure the release of a French teaching assistant, who was charged with spying after last year's anti-government protests and detained in Tehran for 10 months.
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Europe needs quantum leap in budget oversight: Trichet
BERLIN/ZAGREB (Reuters) - Europe's central bankers said on Saturday their governments had at best bought time with a $1 trillion rescue, and called for radical action to curb budget deficits and harsh punishments for those who strayed.
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U.S. Episcopal Church consecrates lesbian bishop
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Episcopal diocese of Los Angeles ordained an openly lesbian bishop on Saturday, a move likely to stoke further tensions between liberals and conservatives in the deeply divided global Anglican Communion.
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Thailand toughens stand against spiraling protests
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand took a tough stand against anti-government protesters on Sunday, rejecting demands for U.N.-supervised talks and calling on their leaders to surrender on the fourth day of deadly clashes with troops.
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North Korea boats draw warning shots from South
GYEONGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Two North Korean vessels crossed into the South's waters off the peninsula's tense west coast before returning when South Korea fired warning shots, military officers said on Sunday.
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BP marks first success in containing oil spill
HOUSTON/GALLIANO, Louisiana (Reuters) - Energy giant BP marked a limited success at containing the oil that is gushing unabated into the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday and said it may be able to stop the flow permanently in about a week.
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Key Mexican ruling party politician feared dead
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A major figure in Mexican President Felipe Calderon's conservative party was missing and feared dead on Saturday after his abandoned car was found with signs of violence, the attorney general's office said.
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Chile charges, frees Pakistani in U.S. embassy case
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Pakistani man arrested at the U.S. Embassy in Chile after triggering an explosive detector was charged on Saturday with illegal possession of explosives, but was freed pending a probe.
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Cathay plane escorted to Vancouver after "bomb hoax"
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A Cathay Pacific airliner from Hong Kong was escorted by military fighter jets to its destination in Vancouver, Canada, after what the airline called a "bomb hoax," but no bomb was found, police said on Saturday.
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Belfast flights to be halted because of ash cloud
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said flights to and from Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland would be halted from 0600 GMT to 1200 GMT on Sunday because of an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano. The National Air Traffic Service's statement marked an extension of a previous no-fly decree issued on Saturday night that excluded Belfast.
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