1.   In the fights to keep NFL teams in their birth places, lawsuits have failed.

2.   Queenstown is the birth place of bungee jumping.

3.   Prior to the game, USC forward Avondre Jones was announced as being from East St. Louis, Ill., his birth place.

4.   Beit Jalla abuts Bethlehem, the traditional birth place of Jesus, and is itself home to several large stone churches and holy sites.

5.   Braving rain and chilly weather, the Hindu nationalists assembled close to the disputed site which they claim was the birth place of their supreme god, Ram.

6.   The Israeli army prevented Wheeler from approaching the church, believed to mark the birth place of Jesus.

7.   The pair share the same coach, Thomas Strandfors, the same birth place, Gothenburg, and now live in the same place, Monaco.

8.   Like other salmonidae fish, it would have swum back to its birth place if there was a way.

9.   Romania daily newspaper Sportul Romanesc told AFP on Friday the former French coach died in his birth place at Cluj in western Transylvania where he had retired.

10.   Saudi Arabia, birth place of chief terror suspect Osama bin Laden has come under particular attention.