In 1899, Percy Julian, the inventor associated with the production of synthetic progesterone, advances in the production of cortisone, a better drug for the treatment of glaucoma and a chemical foam used to fight petroleum fires, was born in Montgomery, Alabama.

CNN: Friday,

In most countries, the laws employed to prosecute illicit traders remain those born of the fight against organized crime, like the racketeering and corrupt organizations (RICO) statutes in the United States.

NPR: Tracking the World's Black Market: 'Illicit'

Even with Landsat, it is as if each satellite was born an only child, and the next mission had to fight for justification as if there had been no heritage.

BBC: Landsat aims to maintain gold standard

Maybe I wasn't born in this country, but I'll sign up to fight for it.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Forum on American Latino Heritage

Nicola Garbutt, whose one-year-old grandson George Hall was born with an under-developed heart, claims the family had to fight to have him transferred by ambulance and treated in Newcastle.

BBC: England

People had time to build houses, trade and fight - in other words civilisation was born.

BBC: Road to Riches

The Vikings did not meet many foes willing to stand and fight, but when they did, they had an answer: born-and-bred sociopaths called berserkers.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The fight was a predictably lively affair, with Haye and Zimbabwe-born Chisora finally exchanging blows after trading a string of insults in the weeks leading up to the fight.

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"I watched the Ricky Hatton-Jose Luis Castillo fight and I was thinking, 'That's the way it's going to be for my fight against Nicky Cook', " the Los Angeles-born fighter told BBC Sport.

BBC: Cook wants to be two-weight champ

The fight was not to do with Jerusalem or the refugees' right of return but born of a vendetta over a racket in stolen cars.

ECONOMIST: The Palestinians