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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    MegaFon says to sell Apple iPhone in Russia

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    Tue Sep 2, 2008 1:17am EDT
    An Apple iPhone is seen in New York, August 28, 2008. Russia's third largest mobile phone operator MegaFon said on Tuesday it had signed a distribution deal with Apple Inc. to sell iPhone 3G in Russia. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

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    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's third largest mobile phone operator MegaFon said on Tuesday it had signed a distribution deal with Apple Inc. (AAPL.O) to sell iPhone 3G in Russia.

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    "The sales of iPhone in Russia will start this year," the company said in a statement.

    (Reporting by Tanya Mosolova)
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