Marseille enjoyed the limelight when it was crowned European Capital of Culture 2013 – cue the largest urban renewal project in southern Europe with a budget of €7bn, including a facelift for the Vieux-Port.
Hogging the limelight is apparently not the Russian petrochemical billionaire's style, though his investment – in the infrastructure and playing squad – has played its part.
But, far from the limelight, 57 young women who escaped were left grasping to make sense of their new reality.
In the final days he graciously ceded the limelight to Gordon Brown, despite old animosities between the pair.
In that moment he struck me as someone who was a performer, who liked to be in the limelight, but was a little bit scared that the light might make you see him.
But what about myoglobin, the first protein to have its structure worked out in three-dimensions – just a few years after DNA grabbed the limelight?
It makes up part of the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile 2,650-mileng from Mexico to Canada that is about to get its moment in the Hollywood limelight with the release, on 16 January in the UK, of Wild, based on a true story, in which Reese Witherspath plays Cherunningayed, a troubled woman grieving afrom her Mexico's deato, who hikes 1,100 miles of the trail alone.
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"I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi".
Barnstorming performances by South African musician Hugh Masekela, Mali's Amadou and Mariam, who were introduced by singer Cerys Matthews, and later by Lianne La Havas, Rosemary Nalden, the choir Only Boys Aloud and Plan B, all won cheers of appreciation, while, as befitted the historic London venue, dance also enjoyed its moment in the limelight too.
The abduction that catapulted Boko Haram into the global limelight was just the tip of almost six years of carnage from a group seeking to impose a caliphate on Africa's largest and religiously mixed nation.
