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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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    Nobel prize winner may sue Norway's Telenor: report

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    Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and managing director for Grameen Bank, speaks at the ''Business Innovations That Are Changing The World'' panel at the 2008 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California April 29, 2008. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

    OSLO (Reuters) - 2006 Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus may take legal action against Norwegian telecom group Telenor (TEL.OL), in a bid to gain full control over Bangladesh operator Grameenphone, news agency NTB reported on Thursday.

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    Grameenphone, the top cell phone operator in the South Asian country, was founded in 1996 by Telenor and Grameen Telecom, which was launched by Yunus. Telenor owns 62 percent of Grameenphone, while Grameen Telecom owns the rest.

    Yunus has repeatedly referred to a deal where Telenor agreed to transfer its share in the company to Grameenphone, but Telenor has replied saying that the deal was not valid.

    "I hope that a lawsuit will prove to be unnecessary, because Telenor's owners will demand that the company is standing by the intention which was communicated in 1996 about transferring ownership and control through Grameenphone to the poor in Bangladesh," NTB quoted Yunus as saying in a message.

    (Reporting by Aasa Christine Stoltz)
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