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Azerbaijani President issues order on execution of SOFAZ 2017 budget

18:56 17 July

President Ilham Aliyev allocates funds for restoration of Yanardag reserve

18:41 17 July

Azerbaijan to switch to floating manat rate regime in 2020

17:48 17 July

Anglo Asian Mining earns $14M from sale of gold

17:45 17 July

USD rate for tomorrow announced

17:39 17 July

Oreshkin: Russia-Azerbaijan trade turnover increased by 21% in five months

17:23 17 July

Union of Azerbaijanis of Romania established

13:58 17 July

Azerbaijan increases fines for pedestrians violating road crossing rules

13:42 17 July

Azerbaijan to establish Competition Authority

13:40 17 July

Russia-Azerbaijan ties ‘on the rise’ – new envoy

13:26 17 July

Azerbaijani president approves amendments to Code of Administrative Offenses

12:55 17 July

Xalg Bank ends Q2 on profit

12:54 17 July

USD rate at today's auction announced

12:51 17 July

Memorandum of Cooperation signed between AzerTelecom and STEP Computer Academy

12:48 17 July

SOFAZ transfers AZN 84.5B to state budget since 2003

12:10 17 July

Date set for summit of Caspian states

11:54 17 July

Date of Azerbaijani president’s visit to Russia rescheduled

11:19 17 July

SOFAZ earns AZN 7.9B from sale of profit oil and gas

10:25 17 July

Azerbaijani oil price decreases

10:22 17 July

Armenia violates ceasefire with Azerbaijan 103 times

10:21 17 July

Gold price rises

10:18 17 July

Oil prices go up

10:15 17 July

Official Exchange Rates

10:04 17 July

Oil prices rise from three-month low as more Norwegian oil workers strike

07:45 17 July

Communist-run Cuba starts rolling out internet on mobile phones

07:33 17 July

Protests in Iraq leave 5 dead, 190 injured

06:21 17 July

US judge halts deportations of immigrant families

05:18 17 July

Flying 'lava bomb' injures 13 off coast of Hawaii's big island

03:08 17 July

Syrian army says it captures strategic hill overlooking Israeli border

02:41 17 July

U.S. State Department in talks with Turkey to sell Patriot system

01:57 17 July

Russian Student Arrested in Washington DC, Charged as Foreign Agent

00:42 17 July

Brent oil falls 4 percent to three-month low as supply outage concerns ease

23:02 16 July

State Agency for the Use of Mineral Resources created in Azerbaijan

22:10 16 July

At least 8 die of suffocation in truck with migrants in Libya

21:06 16 July

2 die in France during World Cup celebrations

20:47 16 July

Trump says U.S. must find ways to cooperate with Russia

20:03 16 July

Man ejected from room ahead of Trump-Putin press briefing

19:50 16 July

Putin calls summit first step towards ‘clearing backlog’ in Russia-US relations

19:44 16 July

Mogherini: Summit of EU, EaP countries to be held October 15

19:02 16 July

Azerbaijani newspapers to receive one-time financial assistance

18:34 16 July

President Ilham Aliyev awards ANAMA employees

18:31 16 July

Azerbaijan Industry Bank ends Q2 on profit

18:26 16 July

Turan Bank’s gets 13% decline in deposit portfolio

18:23 16 July

USD rate for tomorrow announced

18:19 16 July

BTC celebrates 3 billion barrels of oil export

17:58 16 July

Putin, Trump hold one-on-one meeting

17:57 16 July

Azerbaijan announces manat rate for July 17

17:35 16 July

Iran sues US for re-imposing sanctions

17:31 16 July

Apartment sold in Bitcoin in Batumi

17:30 16 July

New deputy mayor of Baku appointed

17:25 16 July

U.S. State Department in talks with Turkey to sell Patriot system

17:17 16 July

Putin-Trump summit gets underway in Helsinki - UPDATED

15:44 16 July

President Ilham Aliyev congratulates Putin on successful organization of FIFA 2020 World Cup

15:01 16 July

Azerbaijani president sends congratulatory letter to Croatian counterpart

14:57 16 July

President Ilham Aliyev congratulates Macron on France’s World Cup victory

14:41 16 July

Mogherini: EU is planning to increase support to Eastern Partnership

13:41 16 July

Tehran condemns terror attack in Azerbaijan’s Ganja city

12:55 16 July

Traitors try to commit terrorist acts in Azerbaijan under guise of religion – Turkish envoy

12:49 16 July

Central Bank announces result of today’s auction

12:48 16 July

Azerbaijani official: Impossible to defeat national will

12:04 16 July

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Apartment sold in Bitcoin in Batumi

17:30 16 July

Tehran condemns terror attack in Azerbaijan’s Ganja city

12:55 16 July

Perpetrators of terrorist attack in Azerbaijan’s Ganja controlled by foreign circles: State Committee

11:48 16 July

The provocation of the reconnaissance-sabotage group of Armenia was suppressed on the state border - PHOTO

11:46 15 July

Azerbaijani official: Impossible to defeat national will

12:04 16 July

The world's highest-paid soccer players 2017: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi lead the list

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Ten years ago FORBES wrote, “While not in the same earnings league as Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods, top-paid soccer players are getting within touching distance of the better-paid U.S. pro sports stars”, APA reports quoting Forbes

Then, Barcelona star Ronaldinho made $29.5 million in earnings to slightly edge out Real Madrid and global icon David Beckham ($29.1 million) to top our list of the world's highest paid soccer players.

In the decade since, escalating payouts from domestic and international television agreements, kit deals, sponsors, Champions League, and an influx of wealthy ownership groups have resulted in surging soccer wages around the world.

Most importantly, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi burst onto the scene, and have dominated the beautiful game – combined they have won 9 of the last 10 coveted global player of the year awards – and related story lines ever since.

Now, just like their performance on the pitch, their paychecks are in a class all their own.

For the fourth straight year, Real Madrid's Ronaldo is the world’s highest-paid soccer player. The $93 million he banked in the last year also bests the earnings of every active professional athlete worldwide.

Of that, the reigning FIFA Player of the Year made $58 million from salary and bonus (before taxes) in the past year as he led his club in goal scoring on the way to a Spanish league title and back to the UEFA Championship final . For perspective, his playing wages alone would rank him No. 3 on our list of soccer’s highest-paid. In comparison, LeBron James, the highest paid NBA player and oft-compared modern day Michael Jordan, made $31 million playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers this season. (Combined with his endorsements, he took home $86 million.)

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