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Topic: Giants

Spanish and German giants look to enforce dominance

PARIS - Spanish and German heavyweights will go into the Champions League quarter-final, second legs this week aiming to ensure that no surprise package makes it into the final four.Real Madrid and Bayern Munich both recorded convincing victories in last week's first legs while Barcelona and ...

Giants End 56year Title Drought
December 17, 2010

Giants end 56-year title drought

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Baseball saw pitching perfection aplenty and a title in San Francisco for the first time, but retirement, death and doping haunted the American pastime in 2010. The San Francisco Giants, who had not won the World Series since 1954 when they were based in New York, defeated the ...

French giants Marseille end 17-year trophy wait

PARIS (AFP) Marseille ended their long, 17-year wait for a major title by beating rivals Bordeaux 3-1 in a fiercely contested League Cup final at the Stade de France on Saturday. All the goals came in the second half, with Souleymane Diawara - who left Bordeaux last summer - putting Marseille in ...

Trials Leg Second Nervy Face Giants European
November 18, 2009

European giants face nervy second leg trials

PARIS (AFP) Three years ago France beat Portugal in the World Cup semi-final - on Wednesday both could fail to even reach the 2010 finals as they take narrow leads into their play-off second leg clashes. France, champions in 1998, hold a 1-0 lead over the Republic of Ireland while Portugal hold ...

Music Giants Fortunes Dwindle
April 25, 2009

Music giants' 'fortunes dwindle'

THE wealth of most of Britains top music millionaires has fallen by at least 10%, according to the Sunday Times annual rich list. Singer Sir Elton John, for example, has seen his wealth drop 26%, from 235m in 2008 to 175m in 2009. Sir Paul McCartney is worth 440m, down from 500m, while pop mogul ...

Giants crash as UEFA Cup proves fatal distraction

PARIS (AFP) - Former European champions AC Milan and Aston Villa tumbled out of the UEFA Cup on Thursday as the lure of next season's mind-boggling Champions League riches proved a fatal distraction. Villa suffered a heavy price for downgrading Europe's second-tier competition when their ...

Economic Crisis Hits Japan Emerging Giants
November 29, 2008

Economic crisis hits Japan, emerging giants

LONDON (AFP) - Asian economic giants Japan and India on Friday revealed fresh damage from the global financial crisis, as Russia moved again to hike interest rates to halt the outflow of capital from the country. Japan slipped deeper into recession with factory output tumbling 3.1 percent and ...

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