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By Philip O’Connor RECIFE Brazil (Reuters) – Luis Suarez can learn to stop biting opponents but it will not be a quick or easy process, senior psychologists have said following the Uruguay striker’s bite on the shoulder of Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. Suarez, twice previously banned for biting, is under investigation by FIFA for the incident late in the Group D clash on Tuesday and faces another lengthy suspension. “From what I’ve seen in the video footage, Suarez took out his frustration and anger on Chiellini from blocking his access to the ball by reactively and impulsively biting him,” Eva Kimonis, senior lecturer at the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Australia, told Reuters via email. “It may be one manifestation of a broader, long-term pattern of misbehaviour that involves other forms of aggression – hitting, bullying, shouting, physical fighting – and is common to people with particularly hot tempers and impulsiveness.” Liverpool forward Suarez was served a 10-game suspension last year after biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic in a Premier League match and spent seven games on the sidelines in 2010 for biting PSV Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal while playing for Ajax Amsterdam.

By Christian Lowe and Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) – World leaders marking 25 years since Poland began its transformation into a free-market democracy had a message this month for neighbouring Ukraine: you too could follow the same path to prosperity. Fundamentals of the two economies suggest Ukraine can aspire to match the progress Poland has made since communism fell. Back in 1990, shortly before Ukraine split from the crumbling Soviet Union, it had a gross domestic product per head of population of $6,806 while the figure for Poland was only $5,976. “Ukraine has a huge potential for development,” said Pawel Borys, director for strategy and investment at PKO BP, Poland’s biggest bank.