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ANSA: Petrolio:NY,chiude in rialzo a 95,48 dlr
ANSA: Banche, accordo all'Ecofin su fallimenti
ANSA: Petrolio: in rialzo a 96 dollari
ANSA: Oro: in rialzo a 1.244 dollari
Aljazeera: South Africa awaits Obama on Africa tour
Financial Times: Vatican cleric arrested in €20m probe
Aljazeera: 'Impossible to win Tour without doping'
Aljazeera: EU to open membership talks with Serbia
Financial Times: BlackBerry’s turnround falters
Financial Times: Cameron decries EU budget ‘ambushes’
Huffington Post: Anderson Cooper Plus Cher Plus Andy Cohen Equals OMG (VIDEO)
Huffington Post: An Open Letter To The Worst Wax Museum In America | VICE United States
Huffington Post: Vanessa Hudgens Steps Out In Spandex Yoga Pants After Pilates Class (PHOTO)
Huffington Post: Is A Foot Orgasm Real? First Known Case Reported By Woman In The Netherlands
Financial Times: Microsoft adds Time Warner TV to Xbox 360
Aljazeera: French tycoon Tapie charged with fraud

ANSA: Petrolio:NY,chiude in rialzo a 95,48 dlr

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:38 AM PDT

Quotazioni salgono dello 0,17%

ANSA: Banche, accordo all'Ecofin su fallimenti

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 05:22 PM PDT

Dopo riunione fiume ministri trovano compromesso

ANSA: Petrolio: in rialzo a 96 dollari

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:12 PM PDT

Brent sale a 102,40 dollari

ANSA: Oro: in rialzo a 1.244 dollari

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:20 PM PDT

Dopo le nuove perdite di ieri

Aljazeera: South Africa awaits Obama on Africa tour

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 04:51 AM PDT

US president's trip to South Africa is likely to be overshadowed by former president Nelson Mandela's ailing health.

Financial Times: Vatican cleric arrested in €20m probe

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 05:05 AM PDT

Former member of Italy's secret service and a financial broker were also arrested as part of an investigation into a plot to smuggle money into Italy

Aljazeera: 'Impossible to win Tour without doping'

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 05:26 AM PDT

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong says it was impossible in his era to win cycling's showcase race without doping.

Aljazeera: EU to open membership talks with Serbia

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 06:02 AM PDT

European leaders agree on opening accession talks with Serbia by January, as bloc continues to enlarge to the east.

Financial Times: BlackBerry’s turnround falters

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 07:25 AM PDT

The Canadian smartphone maker's shares fall sharply in early trading after the group fails to report a profit in the first quarter

Financial Times: Cameron decries EU budget ‘ambushes’

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:50 AM PDT

Prime minister complains about French-led bid to reopen talks on UK rebate at 1am, using cover of a technical issue of how payments are calculated

Huffington Post: Anderson Cooper Plus Cher Plus Andy Cohen Equals OMG (VIDEO)

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 09:20 AM PDT

Just in time for Pride, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen and Cher had a moment together on "Watch What Happens" on Thursday night.

Cooper popped in wearing one of his standard black t-shirts, and everyone was so happy. Just look at their happy faces!

He was so happy!

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Huffington Post: An Open Letter To The Worst Wax Museum In America | VICE United States

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 09:23 AM PDT

But it wasn't just your Tom Hanks that was awful. It was all of your waxworks. They look like something from the nightmares of a person who has been blind since birth and has no real concept of what human beings look like.

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Huffington Post: Is A Foot Orgasm Real? First Known Case Reported By Woman In The Netherlands

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 09:26 AM PDT

By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer
Published: 06/28/2013 10:13 AM EDT on LiveScience

A 55-year-old woman in the Netherlands visited the doctor with an unusual complaint: She experienced unwanted orgasms that started in her foot, according to a new report of her case.

The orgasmic sensations -- which occurred in her left foot -- were sudden, not brought on by sexual desire or thoughts, and occurred about five to six times a day, the report said. The sensation traveled up her left leg to her vagina, and she said the experience felt exactly like an orgasm achieved during sex.

These orgasms were very embarrassing and worrying to the woman, said study author Dr. Marcel D. Waldinger, who treated the woman and is a neuropsychiatrist and professor in sexual psychopharmacology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

"She felt terrible about it," Waldinger said.

Magnetic resonance images (MRI scans) of the woman's brain and her foot showed no abnormalities, although another test revealed some differences between the nerves of her left and right feet, Waldinger told LiveScience. Stimulating her left foot with an electric current induced a spontaneous orgasmin that foot, he said.

The woman was treated with an injection of anesthetic into one of her spinal nerves -- the nerve that receives sensory information from the foot -- and the orgasms stopped completely. The woman has not had any foot orgasms for eight months now, although she might need to return for another anesthetic injection if her symptoms return, Waldinger said.

The researchers believe the phenomenon was the result of a sort of mix-up in the brain.

About a year and half before the foot orgasms started, the woman spent three weeks in an intensive care unit — part of the time, in a coma — because of a sepsis infection. When she came out of the coma, she had tingling and burning sensations in her left foot, likely as a result of damage to tiny nerve fibers in the foot, Waldingersaid.

Interestingly, the nerve that registers sensory information from the foot enters the spinal cord at the same level as the nerve that registers sensory information from the vagina, Waldingersaid. Because of nerve damage in her foot, the woman's brain did not receive sensory information from her foot, but it did receive sensory information from the vagina.

After a year and a half, the nerve in the foot regenerated. When that happened, the researchers believe "the brain could not anymore differentiate between the foot and the vagina. So that it decided that every stimulus coming from the foot was actually coming from the vagina," Waldinger said. "And that means an orgasmic feeling," in the foot, he said. [See 7 Facts Women (And Men) Should Know About the Vagina].

The researchers called the woman's disorder "foot orgasm syndrome," and it is the only known case of its kind. (A foot orgasm has previously been reported in a man with a foot amputation).

Waldinger thinks there may be other people who have the condition, but are too embarrassed to talk about it. Waldinger wanted to publish the case report in part to reduce the stigma surrounding such conditions.

"It's not psychological," Waldinger said. "It's a neurological thing — we can explain it, we can treat it."

Waldinger is hoping to hear from more people who may have a similar condition, and has made a website for people to contact him

The study was published online June 19 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

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