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Malaysian Airlines Disaster Report

MH17 Report Due Today, Ghana football, Science behind hallucinations.

The first official report into the what caused the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster (in which 298 people died) is due to be published in the Netherlands today. We hear from some of the relatives.

Ghana footballer Gideon Baah is making his international debut today in Ghana's World Cup friendly against Canada and now plays for a team in Finland. Unlike most players though he began his pro-career after winning a television show in 2007, MTN Soccer Academy. Christopher Opoku is a reporter who worked for the TV station that broadcast the show, and speaks to Newsday.

Scientists say hallucinations that are usually associated with psychotic disorders, may be the result of a natural process used by the brain to make sense of the world. Research suggests visions and sounds can be generated by the brain to fill in the gaps in reality. Professor Paul Fletcher of Cambridge University explains how it works.

(Photo: The media film the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 laid out in a hangar on Gilze-Rijen airbase, south Netherlands. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

1 hour, 13 minutes

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Tue 13 Oct 201506:06GMT

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  • Tue 13 Oct 201506:06GMT