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• Ze Roberto seals Schalke 04 move

  - 2008-01-04

  GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany AFP — Bundesliga side Schalke 04 on Friday completed the signing of Brazilian Ze Roberto. The 26-year-old attacking midfielder, who arrives from Brazilian first division side Botafogo, has signed a three-and-a-half year deal. Ze Roberto's arrival at the Bundesliga runners-up had been announced in the autumn...

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• Jordan may send FM to peace meet

  - 2007-09-26

  AMMAN AFP — US ally Jordan will send a lower-level delegation to a Washington-sponsored Middle East peace meeting this autumn unless it has a clear action plan, a senior palace official said on Wednesday. King Abdullah II may send his foreign minister if he feels the meeting will have...

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• Canadian mother gives birth to identical quadruplets

  - 2007-08-17

  OTTAWA AFP — A Canadian woman has given birth to a rare set of identical quadruplets at a hospital in Great Falls, Montana, beating odds of one in 13 million, health officials said Friday. The girls -- Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia -- were born August 12 at the...

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• Knock-out name for baby girl

  - 2007-06-23

  LONDON AFP — Baby Autumn Brown has a name to live up - in fact she has over 25 of them. The little girl's mother Maria, in keeping with her boxing-mad family's bizarre tradition, decided to give her 25 middle names - all culled from the greatest exponents inside...

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• Gerrard insists worst is behind England

  - 2007-06-09

  LONDON AFP — England have put their worst behind them and are now very much in the running to claim top spot in their Euro 2008 qualifying group, midfielder Steven Gerrard insisted Saturday. England remain fourth in their qualifying group despite their 3-0 win in Estonia midweek which eased...

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• Men's fashion: YSL, Lanvin lead way in comfy elegance

  - 2007-01-29

  PARIS AFP — Leading fashion houses Yves Saint Laurent and Lanvin offered men a lesson in juggling comfort and elegance, while Paul Smith made geeky chic the coolest look around for next autumn. Stefano Pilati is mindful to keep the cold chill off fans of his timeless clothes for...

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• Europeans swap skiing for sunbathing in record mild autumn

  - 2006-12-05

  PARIS AFP — An unusually warm autumn has broken records across Europe, leaving skiers short of snow in the Alps and Spanish sunbathers catching a late tan. The warmest autumn in three centuries in Britain and the Netherlands -- and over a hundred years in Germany, Italy and Switzerland --...

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• Rise of German economy puts unemployment at four-year low

  - 2006-11-30

  FRANKFURT AFP — Recovery of the German economy -- the biggest in the 12-country eurozone -- is feeding into jobs and unemployment has fallen below four million for the first time for four years. The Federal Labour Agency in Nuremberg calculated that the German jobless total fell by 89,400 to...

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• France basks in warmest autumn since 1950

  - 2006-11-28

  TOULOUSE, France AFP — France has recorded its mildest autumn since 1950, weather experts said, part of a Europe-wide warm spell that has disrupted the migratory patterns of thousands of birds. Over the past three months temperatures have been 2.9 degrees Celsius higher than the seasonal norm, peaking at 3.3...

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• Frogs can't sleep, birds staying put due to balmy German autumn

  - 2006-11-27

  BERLIN AFP — An unusually warm autumn in Germany is wreaking havoc in the normal behavior patterns of the country's wildlife, keeping birds from flying south for the winter and frogs from sleeping. With November temperatures in some areas hovering around the 20-degrees-Celsius (68-degrees-Fahrenheit) mark in some regions, biologists have...

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