Eurozone 'owes pharmaceutical companies €12bn for medicines'

guardian 09-FEB-12

Djokovic named Laureus Sportsman of the Year for 2011

cnn 07-FEB-12

Gibraltar: Between the Rock and an increasingly hard-line place

telegraph 05-FEB-12

Ronaldo double as Real hit by ‘player revolt’ row

dawn 23-JAN-12

A New Chapter between Rabat and Madrid

daralhayat 22-JAN-12

“It’ll be very hard to beat my record,” Pele tells Messi

dawn 21-JAN-12

Billion-pound Dyson's new 'Ball' models face Chinese threat

telegraph 19-JAN-12

Japan to hand over whaling activists to Australia

cnn 10-JAN-12

Messi awarded third Ballon d'Or

bbc 10-JAN-12

[-told]: This is absolute nonsense and a complete lack of respect towards Guardiola,

bdnews24 15-JAN-12

[-said]: Obviously, it was not as much of a surprise like last year that I won. I knew that I had a good chance to win the award and was very relaxed,

bdnews24 15-JAN-12

[ said]: It is a big pleasure to win the third, a big honour. I want to thank the teammates, players and coaches that voted for me,

guardiannewsngr 14-JAN-12

[-said]: It's a huge honor,

irishsun 10-JAN-12

[ said]: It is a big pleasure to win the third, a big honor. I want to thank the teammates, players and coaches that voted for me,

japantimes 10-JAN-12

[-said]: This one is very special because I want to share this with my friend and team-mate Xavi ... he deserves it,

smh 10-JAN-12

[-said]: This one is very special because I want to share this with my friend and teammate Xavi . He deserves it,

aljazeera 10-JAN-12

[-said]: I'm going to share this with Xavi,

rian 10-JAN-12

[-said]: I want to share this also with my teammate Xavi. It is the fourth time we are here together and it is an honor to play together on the pitch,

ibtimes 10-JAN-12

[-said]: It's the third time I've won it. It's just an amazing honor. I want to thank everyone that's been involved with me -- my team-mates, trainers, physios, the coach (Pep Guardiola) and everyone at Barcelona,

ibtimes 10-JAN-12

[ said]: I still have this dream and that is to be a world champion and lift the Copa America with the national side,

channelnewsasia 09-JAN-12

[-said]: It's a huge pleasure for me,

theglobeandmail 09-JAN-12

[ said]: It’s a great personal pleasure for me,

vanguardngr 09-JAN-12

[ said]: For me, to win this award is a very big honor. I want to thank my teammates, because I could not have made it without them,

prensa 09-JAN-12

[ said]: I would like to thank everybody involved within the club at Barcelona and also the Argentinian national team, it's a very special trophy for me and I'm going to share this success with Xavi,

bbc 09-JAN-12

[ said]: It's a great personal pleasure for me,

france24 09-JAN-12

[-said]: This one is very special because I want to share this with my friend and team-mate Xavi . He deserves it,

news24 09-JAN-12

[ added]: I want to share this honour with my team-mate, Xavi,

france24 09-JAN-12

[-said]: This one is very special because I want to share this with my friend and teammate Xavi. He deserves it,

theglobeandmail 09-JAN-12

[-told]: [I] just had a tummy ache, nothing else,

bdnews24 05-JAN-12

[said:]: it's a great pride

irishsun 31-DEC-11

[ said]: It's very nice that tourists come to visit the place where I was born,

irishsun 31-DEC-11

[ added]: I don’t have to demonstrate anything to anybody. I would love to win a title with the national team but I am just another one in the group who wants to do the best for Argentine football, nothing more,

arabtimes 27-DEC-11

[said:]: They are two different things. Barcelona are the best team in the world - even non-fans admit as much. That is the result of years of hard work with the same teammates.

arabtimes 27-DEC-11

[-concluded]: But we are growing and I know we are going to achieve a lot,

arabtimes 27-DEC-11

[-said]: The group are doing fine. But we needed a win like that to strengthen ourselves. It has revitalised us,

arabtimes 27-DEC-11

[ insisted]: I still have this dream and that is to be a world champion and lift the Copa America with the national side. And I know I’ll do it, I am convinced I shall,

arabtimes 27-DEC-11

Alonso [-said]: It’s like requiring Lionel Messi to train with a tennis ball instead of a football, or Rafael Nadal to train with a ping-pong racket,

MaltaIndipendent 13-JAN-12

Pique [-said]: It is clear, Messi, he has been playing at a high level for years. And Leo is the best in the world,

haveeru 09-JAN-12

Guardiola [-said]: Everybody wants to play, not just Messi,

hurriyetdailynews 18-NOV-11

Platini [-told]: I believe that Messi will win his third Ballon d'Or in a row, I know that records are meant to be broken and I also believe he will overtake me. I arrived at Juve at the age of 27, while Messi arrived at Barca when he was 13. Times have changed. If I had grown at Juventus, I would have won even more awards, but my grandparents moved to France and I cannot appeal to any court against this,

panarmenian 16-NOV-11

Suarez [said:]: Comparisons with Messi embarrass me.

thesun 14-NOV-11

Suarez [-told]: Comparisons with Messi embarrass me,

bdnews24 14-NOV-11

Busquets [-said]: We know Messi is the world’s best player, that he’s the leader of this team and a player who changes a game,

nst 01-NOV-11

Fabregas [ said]: Leo is as happy and motivated as ever. He is a born winner and a fighter. To question Messi is unfair,

dawn 28-OCT-11

Fabregas [ added]: To criticise Messi is unfair, what this player does we will never see the like of again,

vanguardngr 26-OCT-11

Fabregas [-told]: If we criticise Messi I can’t imagine what we can say about every other footballer. I’m ready to cut off my hand that Messi will once again win the Ballon d’Or (he has won it the past two years),

vanguardngr 26-OCT-11

Fabregas [-told]: If we criticise Messi I can't imagine what we can say about every other footballer. I'm ready to cut off my hand that Messi will once again win the Ballon d'Or (he has won it the past two years),

dailystar 26-OCT-11

Fabregas [-told]: I still need to adapt to everything - I'm not Messi, nowhere near,

bdnews24 25-AUG-11

Goetze [ said]: It is a special attraction for any player to play against Messi,

channelnewsasia 07-AUG-11

Batista [-said]: (Messi) had an 30 exceptional minutes (against Uruguay),

dailytimesPK 18-JUL-11

Batista [-responded]: Goodbye to the dream of winning the Copa at home. Not even Messi was able to save us … What happens now to the Batista project?

thedailystarBD 17-JUL-11

Batista [-responded]: Goodbye to the dream of winning the Copa at home. Not even Messi was able to save us . . . What happens now to the Batista project?

japantimes 17-JUL-11

Tabarez [-told]: If you have a problem and you don't have the solution, why worry? Messi can give us a lot of problems which won't go away whatever we do to try to avoid them,

bdnews24 17-JUL-11

Tabarez [-told]: If you have a problem and you don’t have the solution, why worry? Messi can give us a lot of problems which won’t go away whatever we do to try to avoid them,

hurriyetdailynews 16-JUL-11

Batista [-said]: The idea is always to build a team around Messi ... It's very hard to drop him because, for me, he is a 90-minute player. He can play badly a while, but he can always show you something,

thestandard 12-JUL-11

Maradona [-said]: The team didn't attack (in drawing with Bolivia and Colombia) and then they blame him. We are being very unfair on Messi.

channelnewsasia 10-JUL-11

Sergio Aguero [also said:]: Leo (Messi) is relaxed. People expect he can win the game by himself. But there are 11 of us on the field.

todayonline 07-JUL-11

Aguero [-said]: Leo (Messi) is relaxed,

JakartaPost 06-JUL-11

Obama [-said]: That is me and Messi. We’re right up there. Absolutely,

thetimes 29-JUN-11

Obama [-said]: That is me and Messi. We're right up there. Absolutely,

kyivpost 29-JUN-11

Fabregas [said:]: Even if Barcelona were not the best team in the world I would always think that my dream was to be a part of this club, whether or not Leo Messi was there, or Xavi.

thesun 17-JUN-11

Ferguson [-said]: They do mesmerize you with their passing and we never really did control Messi,

nst 29-MAY-11

Ferguson [-said]: They do mesmerize you with the passing, and we never truly controlled Messi,

IHT 29-MAY-11

Ferguson [ added]: We never controlled Messi,

zimbabwereporter 29-MAY-11

Ferdinand [said:]: There aren't enough words out there to describe the little fella [Messi].

myjoyonline 27-MAY-11

Ferguson [-said]: We have played against Barcelona three times with Messi in the team,

hurriyetdailynews 27-MAY-11

Ronaldo. [ said]: I wish I had the chance as Messi did to play against 10 because then everything is so much easier,

timesofmalta 28-APR-11