After making up for a recent loss to Grigor Dimitrov by beating him 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 to reach the fourth round, the No. 1-ranked Djokovic wowed the center court crowd by addressing them in decent French afterward.

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The day after September's presidential run-off, when it became clear that Mr Yudhoyono had won, a number of former employees of Dirgantara Indonesia, the loss-making state-owned aircraft manufacturer, showed up on Mr Yudhoyono's doorstep to try to get their jobs back.

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He said he thought there were enough "exceptions" to the Uefa rules that English clubs making a financial loss could then use to make sure they were able to come up with a reduced figure which was acceptable to European football's governing body.

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