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  • Heading footballs ‘affects memory’: study

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    Heading a football can significantly affect a player's brain function and memory up to a day, a study by researchers at Scotland's Stirling University has said. “We found there was in fact increased inhibition in the brain immediately after heading and that performance on memory tests was reduced significantly,” Dr Magdalena Ietswaart, a cognitive neuroscientist…

  • Arbitration scheme obstacle to EU-Canada trade deal

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    The French-speaking region of Wallonia may be the final hold-out against a planned EU-Canada free trade deal, but its view that a system to protect foreign companies threatens democracy is shared by many protesters across Europe. Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) was once a term known only to international trade experts, but became the rallying cry…