Several months later France (along with Britain) signed a commercial agreement with the Franco government.

With barely a month to unearth and sign approximately 30 replacement players, the Mets did what most clubs had to do - they gambled.

In 2006 the band left their Polydor contract and within a month signed a new record deal with V2 Records.

However, one month later the club signed him to a new contract for 2012 which includes a club option for 2013.

It comes just months after 16 South Pacific nations signed a declaration calling for a total ban of drift-net fishing.

Cope burned the treaty six months after he signed it.

Of its 450 members, 162 last month signed a letter arguing that for the time being Ukraine should hold on to its nuclear weapons.

Moscow, which this month signed an agreement to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, apparently wants to draw back from more distant engagements, too.

Two months to the day, Jason Pominville also signed a five-year extension through 2013-14.

Though the merger could still take months to sign, the plan is seen by many leaders as tactical in nature.