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LAUSANNE http://www.predatorsauthority.com/authentic-kevin-fiala-predators-jersey/ , Switzerland, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Former Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher is out of coma and has left the French hospital where he was being treated since his ski fall, his spokeswoman said Monday.


"Michael has left the CHU Grenoble (hospital) to continue his long phase of rehabilitation," Sabine Kehm said in a statement but refused to elaborate on details.


The German star has won a record seven world titles as well as a record 91 Grand Prix victories between 1994 and 2004. He first retired in 2006 at the age of 37. However, he could not resist the thrills of speed and came back in 2010, but as he was unable to retain his best form, he quit again in 2012.


Schumacher crashed into a rock when skiing with friends and his son last December on the slope at the Meribel ski resort in the French Alps.His head hit the rock so hard so that his helmet broke into two parts.


Schumacher was airlifted to a hospital in the French city of Grenoble. He has undergone several operations to remove blood and pressure from his brain, but it was not enough to drag him out of a medically induced coma.


Kehm, who is also Schumacher's manager, told media that the driver was not going at high speed when the accident happened. French authorities later found a camera fixed to the ski helmet of Schumacher, and it was soon inspected by investigators.


The world was shocked as the F1 giant fell into a coma. Known affectionately as Schumi by fans, the German turned into 45 at the start of 2014. His fans marked a sad birthday all over the world.


Ferrari, Schumacher's former team, put a message on its website which marked Schumacher's birthday, saying "Go Michael" in Italian.


"Michael Schumacher's condition is stable but still critical," the Grenoble hospital in a Jan. 6 statement.


Throngs of journalists flew to the hospital for updates on the F1 legend's condition.


Schumacher's wife Corinna spoke publicly for first time on Jan. 7, asking media to "ease the burden on the doctors and the hospital", and "leave our family in peace."


French investigators said on Feb. 17 that the accident in the French Alps was not due to safety breaches or wrongdoing by the establishment from where Schumacher rented his skis. The investigators also closed a criminal investigation into the case.


"There are short moments of consciousness and he is showing small signs of progress," Kehm said in April. Little information has been released since then.


While Schumacher's coma lasted for over half a year, his spokeswoman released the good news. "He is no longer in a coma," said Kehm on Monday.


In Kehm's statment, Schumacher's family "would like to explicitly thank all his treating doctors, nurses and therapists in Grenoble as well as the first aiders at the place of the accident, who did an excellent job in those first months".


"For the future we ask for understanding that his further rehabilitation will take place away from the public eye," said the statement.


The driver was transferred to a hospital in the Swiss city of Lausanne where he will be undergoing further treatment, according to hospital spokesman Darcy Christen for the University Hospital of Lausanne.


"Schumacher's family was with him in a space created especially to ensure their intimacy and to ensure the best possible care," Christen said.


BRUSSELS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) on Wednesday gave green light to Greece's 86-billion-euro bailout package, following lawmakers in several member states nodded to the plan.


The announcement was made after ESM's board of governors, comprising finance ministers of the Eurozone's 19 countries, hold a teleconference on the Financial Assistance Facility Agreement (FFA) with Greece and the adoption of a fresh Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).


Under the FFA, the ESM will provide up to 86 billion euros (95.6 billion U.S. dollars) in financial assistance to Athens over a period of three years.


The approval allows a first tranche of the program up to 26 billion euros on the way to disbursement.


The first tranche includes an up-front 10 billion euros buffer disbursed in ESM notes in a bid to repair the Greek banking system. The notes will not be transferred to Greece but go into a segregated account managed by ESM in its headquarters Luxembourg.


The other 16 billion euros aims to cover the repayment of the 7.2 billion euros bridge loan granted in July from the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM), the upcoming European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) payments, and some arrears.


Among the 16 billion euros, a total of 13 billion euros is set to be directly disbursed to Greece on Thursday, the day Athens has to repay a 3.2-billion-euro loan to the ECB; the remaining 3 billion euros will be disbursed no later than Nov. 30, "if Greece completes additional prior actions."


Greece seems to be provided adequate time to reconstruct its economy as the bailout program offered a maximum weighted average loan maturity of 32.5 years, and loan repayment due from 2023 to 2054.


Interest rate is also low, as ESM said, although depending on market conditions, the figure may stand at around 1 percent on average.