"We were up on a second floor balcony and the sky lit up in orange and yellow, " he told CNN affiliate WALA TV.

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The actual venue for the news conference was no less strange - a cross between a tent and a greenhouse, perhaps like an abandoned aviary - with greenery draped around the white trellis work, miniature orange trees in tubs and two large trees growing up between the TV cameras.

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Since that time, there were experiments with an orange ball in England in 1989, but it did not show up clearly on TV during day-night matches and the experiment was abandoned.

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In recent days, rumors spread on social networks and media sites on line saying that Coca-Cola China admitted in a TV program called Topics in Focus on the China Central Television network that its orange juice products contain a fungicide called Carbendazim.

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