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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ From foreign press Taking cocaine can change the structure of the brain within hours in what could be the first steps of drug addiction, according to US researchers. Animal tests, reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience, showed new structures linked to learning and memory began to grow soon after the drug was taken. Mice with the most brain changes showed a greater preference for cocaine. Experts described it as the brain "learning addiction". The team at University of California, Berkeley and UC San Francisco looked for tiny protrusions from brain cells called dendritic spines. They are heavily implicated in memory formation. xxxxxxx This year's Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships was held in the Finnish city of Savonlinna on Saturday, organizers said on the event's official website. Participants competed in two disciplines - the traditional over the shoulder throw, in which the longest throw wins, and freestyle. The longest mobile phone throw was 97.73 meters among men and 40.4 meters among women. The freestyle competition was won by Erika Vilpponen, who threw a phone while riding a circus bike. The first such competition was held in Savonlinna 13 years ago. Organizers describe mobile phone throwing as the "only sport where you can pay back all the frustrations and disappointments caused by these modern equipments." Phones weighting from 220 to 400 grams are allowed for the competition. Only one attempt is allowed. xxxxxxx A German magazine has reported that the US National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations headquarters in New York. Der Spiegel Weekly cited secret US documents held by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden is now in Russia, which has granted the US fugitive temporary asylum. Der Spiegel says NSA experts succeeded in hacking into the UN video conferencing system and cracking its coding system in the summer of 2012. The magazine also says NSA agents secretly set up antennas and oversaw a bugging program in more than 80 embassies and consulates around the world. Der Spiegel reported in June that the NSA had spied on EU facilities in the United States. The report has strained relations between Washington and its allies.