He was recruited to the economy ministry from the World Bank in Washington 18 months ago to pull Turkey out of a financial abyss.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

In part, this will be to check on any monitoring equipment installed before the inspectors were forced to pull out four years ago, and in part to ease their way back into the job.

ECONOMIST: The inspections begin

The level of pessimism continues to pull back from the 2011 high recorded two weeks ago.

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Eleven years ago, Diane Sawyer was able to pull in some 60 million viewers to watch her PrimeTime Live interview with Michael Jackson.

FORBES: Forget Paris?

Mr Barron, who had been Labour candidate, tried to pull out of the election because of a conviction 22 years ago which would make him ineligible to be a PCC.

BBC: Adam Simmonds, Conservative

California's builders, who helped pull the state's economy out of recession a few years ago, now appear to be leading it back.

ECONOMIST: California

As it was for me and the country a decade ago, we can choose to embrace life and bask in its warmth, or pull apart and fragment.

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The on-off transfer saga had been in doubt after City tried to pull out of the deal, expressing concern about a knee injury Benjani had surgery on 18 months ago.

BBC: Benjani completes Man City move

South Africa says it will pull out its troops from the Central African Republic (CAR) after rebels there seized power more than a week ago.

BBC: South Africa to withdraw troops from CAR

Three decades ago Greenlanders won a degree of home rule and then, anxious about fishing rights, promptly voted to pull themselves out of the European Union (then the European Community), completing the process in 1985, becoming the only people ever to secede from the continental block.

ECONOMIST: Decolonising the Arctic