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DONATE YOUR BRAIN

Scientists are appealing for more people to donate their brains for research after they die.
They say they are lacking the brains of people with disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
In part, this shortage results from a lack of awareness that such conditions are due to changes in brain wiring.
The researchers' aim is to develop new treatments for mental and neurological disorders.
The human brain is as beautiful as it is complex. Its wiring changes and grows as we do. The organ is a physical embodiment of our behaviour and who we are.
In recent years, researchers have made links between the shape of the brain and mental and neurological disorders.

• María García and Lucía Forero

THE YPNG NBA STARS PARTY SPEAKS SPANISH

The Rising Stars Challenge opens the All Star Weekend with a Spanish accent: Abrines, Willy, Porzingis and Sabonis. Turning to the format of what between 2000 and 2011 had been a game that faced rookies and sophomores, the NBA has added something spicy with a formula that is in its third edition: rookies and sophomores Are mixed (at least three per category on each side) in a duel that faces one team of Americans against another of players from the rest of the world. So far, a win by side and two MVPs for the Wolves (Wiggins and LaVine), who could make triplet because they represent the tremendous pivot Karl-Anthony Towns. The show, which will launch the All Star Weekend at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, will have Spanish accent this year as both Willy Hernangómez and Alex Abrines have slipped, on their own merits but also at the very last hour, in the World Team For the injuries of Emmanuel Mudiay and Cameroon Joel Embiid, which was one of the great attractions of this match ... and the whole weekend. Alongside the two Spaniards will also be Kristaps Porzinigs and Domantas Sabonis, Latvian and Lithuanian but raised in Seville and Malaga. So the Spanish touch is guaranteed waiting for Marc Gasol to play with the majors on Sunday All Star Game (02:00, # 0)

• Isabel López 

ARRESTED IN ALICANTE A SEZ OFFENDER WANTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE NETHERLANDS AND THAILAND FOR ABUSING MORE THAN 30 CHILDREN

Civil Guard agents have arrested M.F, a sex offender wanted in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Thailand, who had abused more than 30 children in Santa Pola (Alicante).
The investigation began after the analysis of the computer of a sexual assailant detained in the Netherlands, where images and chats of 15 children who were abused by Frost were identified and identified.
M.F had already been arrested by Thai police after abusing 9 children, cheating on money and gifts. In the images, which he recorded himself, he showed himself by making the heart symbol with his hands while abusing the children.
The arrest took place in Alicante and has been extradited to his country, where he is pending to be sentenced to prison, as the author of 45 sexual offenses to minors, both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
The 70-year-old detainee has served for many years as an English teacher at a UK school. He is accused of having abused several children in the school store, as well as his own adopted son.
In 1986 he tried to adopt another minor, but was eventually denied.

•  Rocío Adame and Marina Pérez

THE FBI DELIVERS TO THE HEIRS OF A JEWISH GALLERY OWNER A PICTURE TAKEN BY THE NAZIS 80 YEARS AGO

The seventeenth-century portrait of the Dutch master Jan Franse Verzijl is the sixteenth canvas recovered by the Max Foundation and Iris Stern

A painting of the seventeenth century was expelled by the Nazis in 1936 and returned by the United States justice to the heirs of a German Jewish art dealer.

The painting "Young Man as Bacchus" by the Dutch painter Jan Franse Verzijl (1599-1647) was seized by the FBI at the art gallery Luigi Caretto in Turin, Italy, which had sent it for sale at the Spring art fair Masters of New York in May 2015.

The Italian gallery has shown great generosity by voluntarily waiving its right of ownership over the work in negotiations with the FBI, the foundation said in a statement.

The FBI had intervened following the request of HCPO, the New York State's Shoah related claims office. Founded in 2002 and run by Concordia University in Montreal, this foundation is currently the world's largest project of restitution of paintings sold forcibly by its owners during Nazi Germany.

This is the sixteenth canvas recovered by the foundation. Several institutions are heirs to Max Stern, a German of Jewish origin (1904-1987), former owner of an important art gallery in Düsseldorf, expelled from the Academy of Fine Arts of the Reich and forced by the Nazis in 1937 to sell more than 400 pictures.

The return of the painting was made at a ceremony on Wednesday at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, under a landmark US court decision in 2007 in another case related to Stern.

• Pablo Miranda and Ainhoa Peregrín

MOST HONEST PHOTOGRAPHER

Martin Schoeller is one of the world's most celebrated portrait photographers. He's taken pictures of everyone from President Obama and Lady Gaga, to female bodybuilders and the homeless of Los Angeles.

"It's been 20 years that I've been taking these close-up portraits and everybody (has) the same lighting, the same setting, the same angle, the same camera. Nobody is retouched -- what you see is what you get," Schoeller explained to CNN.

By treating each portrait in the same way, regardless of the subject, Schoeller attempts to find some truth in what he feels can be a very dishonest medium.

"I do think all photographs lie. I don't think there is one picture that is really honest. You can't describe a person in a split second, but maybe in the grand scheme of photography, I think there are some pictures that are more honest than others, you know? So I'm trying to steer to the little bit more honest side of the spectrum," he said.

Out of the thousands of people he has photographed, who does Schoeller find the most challenging to photograph?

"Actors in general are difficult to shoot because they are always acting. You feel like 'Oh, this was an honest, great portrait' while you're photographing them... and then (I'm) looking at the contact sheets and I feel like, 'Oh my god, they were playing the whole time and I didn't even notice it.'"

 

• María García and Lucía Forero

A 36 YEAR MAN HAS DIED BY SUFFERING A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN CAMAS, SEVILLE

A 36-year-old man has died in the afternoon of Thursday after suffering a traffic accident, in particular a road exit, while riding a motorcycle on the A-49 motorway, at the height of the Sevillian municipality of Camas.

The incident occurred at about 17.20 hours on Thursday. Immediately, several witness drivers have alerted an accident of a motorist on the A-49 motorway, at kilometer 0, at the height of the Pañoleta towards Huelva.

The exact point where the accident has occured.

• Iván Reina and Pablo Rodríguez

 

TRYING TO RESCUE WHALES

Volunteers in New Zealand are trying to rescue survivors after more than 400 whales beached themselves.

About 300 whales died overnight at Farewell Spit, on the South Island, in one of the worst such cases the country has seen.

Hundreds of locals and conservation officers have been trying to rescue the survivors since early Friday and formed a human chain to refloat the whales.

 Scientists do not know what exactly causes whales to beach themselves.

But it sometimes happens because the whales are old and sick, injured, or make navigational errors particularly along relaxing beaches.

Andrew Lamason, the departments regional manager, said it was one of the largest mass beachings recorded in New Zealand.

"We managed to float quite a few whales off and there were an awful lot of dead ones in the shallows so it was really, really sad."

"One of the nicest things was we managed to float off a couple [of whales] and they had babies and the babies were following," Ms Wiles added.
In February 2015 about 200 whales beached themselves at the same location of which at least half died.

• María García and Lucía Forero