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Ainsi donc
Le système nerveux entérique
N'est en rien quelconque
Ce deuxième cerveau, qui fait ses coliques
Et son microbiote intestinal
En connexion avec le système nerveux central
100.000milliards de bactéries
500 espèces qui font de la chimie
100 millions de neurones
300 millions de neurones, le cerveau du chat qui ronronne
Six à huit mètres, le tube digestif tonne !
Le système nerveux central
Est au système nerveux entérique, son téléphone
Nous en ressentons, tant le bien que le mal

Germany is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner with the unveiling Wednesday of a monument in the composer's birthplace of Leipzig.

Wagner's compositions such as the opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" have been hailed as sublime works of art that belong to the core canon of Western culture.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Wednesday with officials in Oman to discuss their plans to buy a $2.1 billion air defense system from American manufacturer Raytheon.

Kerry met with the Arab country's defense minister, a day after discussions with Oman's sultan.

Kerry thanked them for their decision to buy the ground-based air defense system from the Massachusetts company. "We're very excited about that and very grateful for your confidence in Raytheon," Kerry said.

Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Syria's opposition and the government of President Bashar al-Assad seem to be preparing to take part in an international peace conference against a background of some of the worst fighting this year.

On Tuesday, Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and Syrian soldiers, backed by air strikes and artillery, renewed an offensive aimed at driving Syrian rebels from the town of Qusair near the Lebanese border, opposition activists said.

Les couvents pour jeunes filles
Où c'était l'obscurantisme qui brille
C'était il y a peu de temps
Pour punir l'acte délinquant
La sexualité y était horrible chose
La féminité niée, cela ne sentait pas la rose
Sans aucune protection intime
La même serviette hygiénique
Sans cesse relavée, la religieuse sadique
De toutes ces privations, était la mime
Tous les lieux
Ou l'on torture
La prison, le couvent, l'armée, l'entreprise, l'usine, l'école
Manifestement, dans l'ancien temps

Surrounded by a turquoise sea and a menagerie of exotic animals on a billionaire's private island, political and business leaders gathered Friday to back an initiative aimed at expanding protection for the Caribbean's imperiled coasts and waters.

The "Caribbean Challenge" calls for special protected zones along at least 20 percent of the region's coasts by 2020 in hopes of protecting its biodiversity and its crucial tourism market. The region's scattered islands have 10 percent of the world's coral reefs and some 1,400 species of fish and marine mammals.

An official says motorcycle-riding gunmen have shot dead a police chief who led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his house.

Abdul Ghani was leaving his driveway in his car when the two raced up and opened fire in Farah province.

Provincial spokesman Abdul Rahman Zhawandai said Saturday that Ghani was rushed to hospital after the attack Friday night but died of his wounds.