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Edmonton Oilers' Mike Comrie (L) celebrates a goal against the Vancouver Canucks during the first period of their pre-season NHL hockey game in Edmonton September 27, 2009.Salvador Cabañas (C) of America, vies for the ball with Santiago Solari (L) and Gerardo Castillo (R) of Atlante, during their Mexican league football match in Mexico City, on September 27, 2009.Tampa Bay Rays' Ben Zobrist runs after a hit in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. The Rays won 7-6.The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Glenn Stevens (C), gestures during an appearance before a parliamentary committee hearing in Sydney September 28, 2009.Cuban President Raul Castro (R) put the Jose Marti Order to Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet (L), on September 27, 2009, at the Revolution Palace in Havana. Minh Triet is in Cuba on a three-day official visit.Portuguese Prime Minister and Socialist Party leader Jose Socrates gestures after winning Portugal's parliamentary elections in Lisbon Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009MILAN-SEPTEMBER 27: Freedom Party supporters listen to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the Italian Party Of Freedom (PDL) Festival on September 27, 2009 in Milan, Italy. This is the first PDL national festival after the unification between the Alleanza Nazionale, the right-wing heirs to Benito Musolini's blackshirts, and Berlusconi's Forza Italia Party.A young Italian drinks beer at a park in Milan August 22, 2009. In a country where proverbially "wine makes good blood" -- a popular belief that moderate alcohol intake makes people good-humoured and can be healthy -- the authorities are grappling with a youth drinks culture modelled on the heavy-drinking north. Milan in July became Italy's first city to crack down on youth drinking. In a move applauded by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the business hub set 500-euro fines for the possession and consumption of alcohol by under-16s or those selling to them. Picture taken August 22, 2009. credit photo : Gettyimages