Although Ms Banda was elected as Mr Mutharika's running mate, the pair fell out long before he died after it became apparent that he wanted his brother, Peter, to succeed him.

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Although Ms Banda was elected as Bingu wa Mutharika's running mate, the pair had fallen out long before he died of a heart attack last April, after it became apparent that he wanted his brother to succeed him.

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Pat Nevin, a Scotland team-mate of McLeish during the pair's playing days, insists there is more to McLeish than the straight-laced disciplinarian he plays to camera.

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While a third and more accepted belief is that the holiday marks the day that "birds begin to pair, " which is the day they choose their mate.

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There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he's not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

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The good news for the pair, who got started on the strength of a chat at a mate's engagement party, is that they've made rapid headway with critics.

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The pair combined to create Bayern's best chance of the first half when Ribery headed his team-mate's dinked cross against the bar.

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Beyond first-choice strike-duo of Rooney and Aston Villa's Emile Heskey, Capello has called-up Tottenham pair Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouch, Sunderland's Darren Bent, Heskey's Villa team-mate Gabriel Agbonlahor and West Ham's Carlton Cole ahead of Owen for England's successful World Cup qualifying campaign.

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