For Italian tech workers, the conclave meets fantasy sports

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Flight from fight response. After India attacks Pakistan and Pakistan authorizes "corresponding action", a journalist in Kashmir tells us the threat of escalation has people unsure what to do or where to go.

Search me. American authorities in a Washington state border town inspect cars and question drivers heading toward Canada. A local lawyer says that might destroy whatever was left of the town's cross-border business.

Spyware and tear. An Israeli cyber-intelligence firm is ordered to pay more than 2-hundred and 30 million Canadian in damages, for surveilling hundreds of WhatsApp users.

Your chance to pontiff-icate. While the conclave is in session, Italians are guessing who the next Pope will be -- by playing a fantasy-league game called "Fantapapa".

A true sensation about real sensations. A graduate student in Finland wins this year's "Dance Your PhD" contest with a powerful performance about the science behind sensations such as burning, cooling, and tingling.

And...villain the blanks. A British woman is given tens of thousands in compensation, after her colleagues filled out a Star Wars-related personality test on her behalf -- and declared her a "Darth Vader".

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