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Sure enough, on Sunday, Nov. 14, Mannesmann received a “friendly” 103 billion euro offer from Vodafone. No sale, countered Esser when they met that day; we’re worth twice that. The two men parted, to spend the week feverishly canvassing their shareholders and campaigning in the press and in detailed conference calls with analysts. Esser went to court to block Vodafone from using Goldman, Sachs as an adviser, accusing the investment bank of a conflict of interest because of some earlier work it had done for Mannesmann....

The first themed night of the series is “Britney Night,” and will feature each of the remaining couples perform a routine set to one of Spears’ famous songs. Last week’s episode saw Martin Kove and professional partner Britt Stewart leave the competition, leaving 14 pairings left in the competition. The contestants will be performing one previously unlearned dance routine each. Who Is Performing What on Britney Night? Each couple gets to choreograph their dance to a classic Britney hit....

For this latest season, a number of big names who sat out the last season are back. Most exciting for fans, both Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters have come back, alongside long-term show stars Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy and Finn Wittrock. Here’s everyone in the main cast of Red Tide. Meet the cast of American Horror Story Season 10 part one Sarah Paulson - Tuberculosis Karen The exact details of Tuberculosis Karen (TB Karen for short) are under wraps, but Paulson summed her up to Entertainment Weekly by saying she “has some issues....

Whereas in the MPL, every match irrespective of teams are televised by a local television channel who bought the broadcasting rights of MPL for a whooping ₹ 1.25 crore to telecast a revamped version of the state’s football league back in 2012. After a successful run of five years, Zonet, the official broadcasters, have renewed their deal for the next five years starting the sixth edition for a total sum of ₹ 1....

Now, with the emergence of two-time Indian Super League (ISL) champions Chennaiyin FC and Chennai City, who are still in the I-League, the footballing scenario in the state projects a positive outlook. So what is the league structure like in Tamil Nadu? Interestingly, Tamil Nadu Football Association (TFA) does not have a state league. The major leagues in the state happen in districts like Chennai, Madurai etc. History of CFA Senior Division!...

On Thursday, the Seminole County Republican Party announced, in an email, that it had named John M. Nassif, 56, as poll-watching chair, according to local ABC station WFTV 9. The station said that Nassif will be responsible for creating a list of possible people to watch the polls on election day. After creating the list, Nassif will give it to the county election office. According to WFTV, Nassif, for his part in the riot, was charged last year with disorderly conduct as well as with entering a restricted building....

Who is City’s secret CB signing? The France international returned to Old Trafford last summer after four seasons with Juventus, joining the Red Devils for €105 million plus €5 million in bonuses — making him the world’s most expensive footballer. Pogba went on to make 51 appearances in all competitions this past season as United won an EFL Cup and Europa League double. While Pogba helped the Bianconeri claim four Serie A titles and two Coppa Italia crowns during his time with the club, Allegri had no hesitation to sell once he saw the massive number put forth by Jose Mourinho’s side....

After taking an early lead, Juve fell behind 2-1 against their rivals, who were reduced to 10 men by Matias Vecino’s 18th-minute red card, in the second half. But two goals in the last four minutes turned the match around. Juan Cuadrado’s cross deflected in off Inter defender Milan Skriniar, with Gonzalo Higuain then heading home the winner from a Paulo Dybala free-kick. Juve now hold the advantage as they hunt a seventh straight Scudetto, although Napoli - 1-0 victors in Turin last weekend - can maintain the pressure by winning away to Fiorentina on Sunday....

Juve 4/6 favourites to win Serie A The Bianconeri claimed the Serie A crown with 91 points last season, edging Roma and Napoli by four and five points, respectively. It marked the first time since the 2011-12 season that Juve won the title by fewer than nine points. And Allegri thinks that tighter race is a sign of things to come in Serie A. “We will see increased competition this season,” Allegri said at a news conference Saturday, referencing Roma, Napoli, Inter and AC Milan....

Why did Barcelona let amazing Alves leave? Goals from Mario Mandzukic and the star of the tie Dani Alves were enough to see off the Ligue 1 leaders 2-1 at Juventus Stadium, backing up their win in the principality last week. Captain Gianluigi Buffon said post-match that reaching the final would mean nothing without victory in Cardiff and Allegri too espoused the importance of seeing out a first treble by an Italian side since Jose Mourinho’s Inter after being denied by Barca in 2015....

Alli looked on as an unused substitute at Wembley as the Three Lions played out a 1-1 draw with Italy. Following a shaky defensive showing in an opening to the game Manchester City centre-back John Stones will be keen to forget, England stylishly took control of the contest and led when Jamie Vardy lashed into the top corner after 26 minutes. A rampaging Raheem Sterling and the quick-thinking Jesse Lingard were the architects of that goal and they, along with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain caused Italy numerous problems in the area behind the striker where Alli thrives at his best....

Get the odds on Spurs to win Premier League After scoring 26 goals in all competitions last season as Monaco won the league and reached the Champions League semi-finals, 18-year-old sensation Mbappe is expected to overtake Paul Pogba as football’s most expensive player in history if he leaves this summer. Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain are leading the chase to sign him, with the French side seeing an offer of over €135m rejected....

They range from antibiotics, antidepressants, and painkillers to oral contraceptives, hay fever pills, and tranquilizers. The River Clyde in Scotland is the most pharmaceutically polluted in the United Kingdom, with epilepsy drug carbamazepine the most common found in nearly 70 percent of British rivers. Out of 54 sampling sites in the U.K., drugs were detected in 50, with only four in remote Snowdonia in Wales being clean. These levels are potentially toxic to humans....

Congress had good reason to amend the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). After the shift from satellites to fiber-optic cable for most international phone calls, the statute was as out of date as disco. With Congress, the courts and President Bush squabbling over his illegal wiretapping program, the government was actually conducting less surveillance of foreign nationals than before 9/11, which was crazy. We had to do more listening in, especially with scary new intelligence “chatter” suggesting an unspecified attack on the U....

Bachelet has “suffered” from that personal loss, she says. But she insists she harbors no ill will toward the armed forces that she now heads. She took the job, she told NEWSWEEK, because “I felt I could serve as a bridge between the military and civil society.” That the top brass voiced no objection to her appointment reflects, in part, her impressive qualifications. Bachelet gained a thorough grounding in national-security issues in the 1990s as a standout student at military academies in Santiago and Washington, and later served as a policy adviser to the Defense Ministry under Lagos’s predecessor, Eduardo Frei....

Until last week. Following a campaign singularly devoid of the usual violence and lavish electioneering, India’s have-nots shattered the country’s political order – and the dream that a sole party could bridge the country’s bitter divides. The Congress Party was an also-ran, with fewer than half the seats that gave it a slim majority in the last Parliament, when the ballots of 300 million voters were counted. ““The masses of the people have gone away from us,’’ conceded Congress party leader Sharad Pawar....

Consider the Depression Generation. So scarred was it by insecurity that, forever after, its members borrowed no money and took no risks. They mistrusted the prosperity that swelled around them because they “knew” it wouldn’t last. Now consider the Inflation Generation who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. They saw in a flash that a dollar saved was a dollar lost because inflation ate it up. A dollar borrowed was a dollar saved....

Molds have been an under recognized health problem, but that is changing. Health-care professionals now know that molds can cause allergies, trigger asthma attacks and increase susceptibility to colds and flu. Anyone with a genetic predisposition can become allergic if exposed repeatedly to high enough levels. Last year Dr. David Sherris at the Mayo Clinic performed a study of 210 patients with chronic sinus infections and found that most had allergic fungal sinusitis....

The Ahyi Seamount—a large submarine volcano—lies 449 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean below the Northern Mariana Islands, which are more than 3,700 miles west of Honolulu, Hawaii. Satellite images show there to be discoloration at the surface of the ocean above Ahyi, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement. The remote area of the seamount makes its activity difficult to confirm. But hydroacoustic sensors at Wake Island have detected signals “consistent with activity from an undersea volcanic source,” strongly suggesting that Ahyi is rumbling to life....