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Malta allows rescued refugees on German ships into port Malta has allowed people on two German NGO rescue ships to enter port after they were stuck in limbo for weeks in the Mediterranean, thus ending an embarrassing political impasse for the EU. The asylum-seekers walked off boats onto Malta on Wednesday. "Let me commend Malta, our smallest Member State displaying biggest solidarity," said EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos in a statement. The Sea-Watch 3 and the Professor Albrecht Penck rescued 49 North Africans in danger of drowning on December 22 and December 29 respectively. But the ships, which sail under German flags, werenʼt allowed to land as Germany and other EU nations wrangled over where these refugees and 249 others already in Malta would be sent.

"Weʼre absolutely prepared to accept these 50 people and have been for months," German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told reporters on Tuesday. "But we have set a precondition that a significant number of EU states show joint solidarity."

Doubt cast over details of attack on AfD lawmaker Magnitz Frank Magnitz, a member of the Bundestag from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), had said thathe was brutally attackedby political opponents in his home base of Bremen. However, prosecutors said on Wednesday that footage of the attack casts doubt on the lawmakerʼs version of events. According to Magnitz, 66, he was attacked from behind with a piece of wood around 5:30 p.m. while taking a shortcut behind the Bremen City Theater to his car in a nearby parking garage.He said he was kicked after he had fallen down, and then blacked out.

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Britain, European Union square off anew Brexit Diaries 51:

Itʼs a new year, and nothing has changed. Read all about Benedict Cumberbatchʼs Uncivil War, a taxpayer-funded traffic jam, a shady shipping deal, and more dire economic news in this weekʼs Brexit Diaries.

The feasts have been eaten, the punch has been drunk, and the family quarrels have subsided for now.

At many festive tables in Britain, one issue would have been especially taboo: The topic of Brexit likelier leads to divorce and disinheritance in some families than it does to peace and goodwill. What was Theresa May thinking when she pulled Parliamentʼs Brexit vote in Decemberand postponed it till January 15? The prime minister had likely hoped that the holidays would providetime for quiet reflectionand for lawmakers to feel remorse for blocking her Brexit deal. There is also, of course, the additional pressure on the clock. Weʼve now got 80 days till B-Day. The Brexiteer right has played a decadeslong game in its efforts to leave the European Union, however. Why would that change now? The problem with television is that it seems so much more fun than real life. Or was the Vote Leave campaign really having such a great time as portrayed in the Channel 4 film Brexit: The Uncivil War? In any case, Dominic Cummings, the director of and driving force behind Vote Leave,

must have been tickled pink to have been portrayed by Britainʼs brightest actor, Benedict Cumberbatch. And the film was flattering, depicting Cummings as somewhat unstable but a political genius. Cummings was the man who brought about the victory through innovative data mining and clever propaganda. We remember Cambridge Analytica and the pledge plastered on city buses that Brexit would mean an additional 350 million pounds (€390 million/$445 million) per week for the National Health Service. It was a lie, but it worked. He also gave Vote Leave its slogan, "Take Back Control," which ended up being another of the campaignʼs most effective and emptiest pledges. In the film, we also see Vote Leave funder Arron Banks swilling beer with his sidekick, Nigel Farage, who led the UK Independence Party at the time.

They appeared like a pair of overgrown schoolboys plotting a nasty trick. The film was quite entertaining but something of a distraction from the real Brexit mess, which has degraded British politics and public life.

Egypt confirms one German detained, another unaccounted for German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Adelbahr confirmed Wednesday that 23-year-old GermanEgyptian student Mahmoud Abdel Aziz (pictured above) "is in the custody of Egyptian authorities." The student was detained on December 27 at Cairo airport. The man, who hails from the northern German city of Göttingen, was traveling with his brother Malik at the time he was detained. The men are both enrolled in the Islamic studies program in Saudi Arabian Medina and were en route to visit their grandparents. Adelbahr said German authorities were "trying very intensively to get access" to Aziz, but have not yet been able to see him.

Thus far, no reason has been given for the manʼs arrest.

EU lawmakers decry Washington downgrading of EU ambassador A letter published Wednesday by the 58-member EU parliamentary Delegation for Relations with the United States slammed the White Houseʼs "increasingly harmful approach" to transatlantic relations and urged Congress to help "strengthen and not undermine" ties. The European delegation slammed the demotion Tuesday of the EU Ambassador to the United States David OʼSullivan, originally from Ireland, saying neither the ambassador nor the EUʼs foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini had been "formally notified of this change" in advance.

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UN warns migrant children are missing out on education

In a report released in Berlin on Tuesday, the UN agency for culture and education, UNESCO, warned that far too manyrefugee children are still being denied access to quality education. The 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report, Migration, displacement and education, shows that a shortage of trained teachers and funding is hampering efforts to integrate migrant students. The key takeaways Half of the worldʼs forcibly displaced people are under the age of 18.Often they have limited access to the education systems of the countries where they are seeking asylum.Low- and middle-income countries host 89 percent of refugees but often lack the funds to support their education.Shortfalls in teaching staff also pose huge obstacles — even Germany would need 42,000 new teachers to properly educate the refugee children it has taken in. The report said low-income countries Chad, Ethiopia and Uganda were "champions" when it came to integrating refugees into schools.It also praised Canada and Ireland as "global leaders" in implementing inclusive education policies.The report urges donors to triple funding for refugee education.

Airbnb cuts listings in Israeli West Bank settlements Home-rental platform Airbnb announced Monday it would no longer offer its service in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, drawing an angry response from Israel. Israel seized the West Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War, but most countries consider the Jewish settlements there to be illegal. The company said in a statement the decision would affect about 200 properties "in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians." "Our hope is that someday sooner rather than later, a framework is put in place where the entire global community is aligned so there will be a resolution to this historic conflict and a clear path forward for everybody to follow," it added. Palestinian and human rights groups had long called on Airbnb to remove the settlement listings from its site. Waleed Assraf, head of a Palestinian antisettlement group welcomed the development, saying if more companies followed it would "contribute to achieving peace." Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin condemned the move as "the most wretched of wretched capitulations to the boycott efforts."

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Eurozone unemployment falls to decade-low 7.9 percent But youth unemployment in Italy, Spain and Greece remains above 30 percent

Unemployment in the eurozone in November fell unexpectedly to its lowest rate in more than 10 years.

Figures for November 2018 published by the European Unionʼs statistical office, Eurostat, on Wednesday showed unemployment in the 19 EU countries that use the euro currency dropped to 7.9 percent. It is the lowest level since October 2008 and below the 8.1 percent forecast by economists. While the number of people in Italy and Spain without a job did drop in November, the two countries still have the highest unemployment rates in

Mythical sex scene fresco discovered in Pompeii Archaeologists have discovered a fresco in an ancient Pompeii bedroom that depicts a sensual scene between the Greek god Zeus — or his Roman equivalent, Jupiter — disguised as a swan, and Leda, a legendary Spartan queen from Greek mythology, the Pompeii administration said Monday.

Such iconography showing the mythological figure of Leda being impregnated by the god in swan form was a fairly common decoration in homes in Pompeii and Herculaneum, two towns near present-day Naples that were destroyed in A.D. 79 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Still the fresco remains an exceptional find, according to Pompeii archaeological park director Massimo Osanna, who pointed out that Leda was painted in an

the eurozone, after Greece. The countries with the lowest unemployment rates for November were: the Czech Republic, closely linked to Germanyʼs economy, with 1.9 percentGermany, with 3.3 percentthe Netherlands, with 3.5 percent.

The highest unemployment rates were recorded in: Greece, with 18.6 percent in September 2018 — showing a fall from 20.8 percent the previous yearSpain, with 14.7 percent in November. unusual way, making her look directly at anyone who saw the fresco upon entering the bedroom. "Leda watches the spectator with a sensuality thatʼs absolutely pronounced," Osanna told Italian news agency ANSA. In the scene, Leda protects the swan with her cloak as the bird sits on her lap. Osanna noted that the fresco celebrates the Greek "myth of love, with an explicit sensuality in a bedroom where, obviously beside sleep, there could be other activities."

Gender equality: ʼBattle for fundamental human rightsʼ Katrin Jakobsdottir: I have often said that while we are proud of our place at the top of the World Economic Forumʼs Global Gender Gap list, women

Chicago hospital shooting leaves four dead An argument outside Chicagoʼs Mercy Hospital led to the shooting of an emergency-room doctor, a pharmacy resident and a police officer. The shooter was also killed.

Four people, including the shooter, died after a gunman opened fire in the parking lot at Mercy Hospital in Chicago on Monday. Authorities said the gunman started shooting after a "verbal altercation" with an emergency room doctor with whom he was in a domestic relationship. The shooter then ran into the hospital and killed two more people before dying himself. Authorities received reports between 3:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. local time (900 and 930 UTC) of shots being fired near Mercy Hospital, located in the northern part of Chicagoʼs South Side, and required a "heavy police response."Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the events started to unfold in the hospital parking lot, where the gunman began a "verbal altercation" with Tamara OʼNeal, 38, an emergency room doctor and, according to Chicago media, his former fiancee.As the fight with OʼNeal escalated, the shooter pulled out a handgun and killed the doctor.

Police have defined this first killing as an act of domestic violence. When officers arrived, the gunman fired at the squad and ran into the hospital.

There, he exchanged fire with the officers and killed Dayna Less, 25, a first year pharmacy resident and police officer Samuel Jimenez, 28.

in Iceland are also very aware that even we — in this top global position of the "gender paradise" as Iceland is sometimes called — have work to do. While there is a difference in degree between womenʼs equality in Iceland and some other corners of the world, the nature of the discrimination is the same.

The gender pay gap still exists in Iceland, women still donʼt have equal power in Icelandʼs corporate and financial world, and we also have the serious problem of gender-based violence and sexual violence and harassment in Iceland, as most recently revealed by the #MeToo movement. No. The fight for gender equality wonʼt be "over" or "sufficient" until we have eliminated gender-based discrimination in Iceland and across the world.

Even though we reach a milestone here and there, we must never think that because of those milestones or goals reached, the fight for gender equality is something that we can allow ourselves to put on the backburner.

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Nissan shares tumble after chairmanʼs arrest Shares of Nissan Motor Co. dipped 5.5 percent in Tokyo and Renaultʼs fell 8 percent in Paris on Tuesday, a day after high-flying chairman Carlos Ghosnwas arrested on suspicion of falsifying financial reports and other misconduct.

The 64-year-old Ghosn was arrested on Monday in Tokyo and is being held as prosecutors conduct an investigation into allegations that he underreported his income by around 5 billion yen ($44.5 million, €38.8 million) over five years. Nissan and Mitsubishi, two parts of the NissanMitsubishi-Renault alliance Ghosn led, have announced their intention to remove him as chairman. Franceʼs finance minister Bruno Le Maire said

UN refers Saudi teen Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun for asylum in Australia Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun said she fears for her safety should she be returned to what she describes as an abusive family in Saudi Arabia.

Shemanaged to reach Thailandʼs main airport at the weekend, where she put out appeals to find a safe refuge. On Wednesday, the Australian government said it was considering granting the 18-year-old refugee resettlement following a referral from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

"The UNHCR has referred Ms Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun to Australia for consideration for refugee resettlement," Australiaʼs Department of Homeland Security said in an email. "If she is found to be a refugee, then we will give very, very, very serious consideration to a humanitarian visa," Health Minister Greg Hunt told public broadcaster ABC.

on Tuesday that after his arrest, Ghosn was no longer fit to be at the helm of Renault. "Carlos Ghosn is no longer in a position capable of leading Renault," Le Maire told France Info radio. He said Franceʼs priority was to ensure continuity and stable governance of the French car giant. The French automaker announced it would be holding a board meeting later on Tuesday to discuss interim management while Ghosn is detained.

Winter storms hit Europe with avalanche threat over the Alps

Schools stayed closed in mountainous parts of Austria and Germany on Wednesday as warnings of avalanches were made for several regions. Hundreds of people stayed in their homes due to blocked roads. Food was trucked into the Berchtesgaden neighborhood of Buchenhöhe in the Alps near the Austrian border southeast of Munich for the 350 residents unable to leave

their homes because of the snow. Roads were blocked leading to a 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) traffic jam near Munich on Wednesday. There were power outages in some areas after snow-laden trees took down power lines. Some buildings collapsed from the weight of the snow on the roof. One man was badly injured when he fell from his roof in Turrach, Austria, while shovelling snow.

Sicilian police arrest alleged Mafia boss in major swoop Italian police said on Tuesday they dismantled the upper echelons of the Sicilian Mafia by apprehending 49 people, including the newly-elected chairman of the Sicilian Mafiaʼs top executive body, the Palermo Provincial Commission. The 80year-old Settimino Mineo has a long criminal record but his name was not previously known to a wider public. His role had been to help the Cosa Nostra regain its strength and act as a power-broker between crime families. Mineo was detained in a raid that led to the other arrests. Police said he was heir to notorious Mafia boss Toto Riina, who died in prison last year.

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How will the EU-Italy budget standoff be resolved?

After weeks of tug-of-war games, Italyʼs coalition government — made up of the populist 5-Star Movement and the right-wing Northern League party — last week approved their first budget. Under the proposals, the countryʼs deficit will rise to 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019. New social security benefits are also planned, on the orders of 5-Star leader Luigi Di Maio, who is also the labor and social policy minister. Cuts to the countryʼs tax system, demanded by Northern League party leader Matteo Salvini, are also in the bag. The introduction of two tax bands of 15 and 20 percent are meant to boost the economy but could mean considerable revenue losses. In addition, costly pension reforms — which have not yet been factored into this budget — are being readied, following a promise by Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte. A further sweetener will see the coalition drop a long-planned increase in the countryʼs sales tax (VAT), which analysts say will only widen the hole in the countryʼs finances. Even so, Finance Minister Giovanni Tria, an economics professor not aligned to either party, has tried to limit public spending. He pushed for the deficit to rise to a maximum of 1.6 percent. Apparently, he initially threatened to resign after pressure to further boost the stateʼs debt levels but is now likely to remain in office.

Car rental company under fire after ad jokes about hitting cyclists The 2017 Palme dʼOr-winning Swedish satirical film The Squarehas a memorable sequence about the lengths advertising agencies will go to in order to grab attention for a product, however vacuous the campaign — or indeed the product — is. Needing to whip up interest in a patently ridiculous modern art exhibition called "The Square," the advertising men come up with a YouTube video portraying an impoverished child being killed in an explosion after entering the exhibition, supposedly a haven of peace. The clip draws widespread condemnation but also goes viral, stirring mass interest in something which hardly warrants it. As one of the worldʼs biggest car rental companies, you might think Sixt has no major need for such advertising gimmicks. Yet in recent years, the Munich-based company has tried to cultivate something of an image around its use of banter and humor in its advertising campaigns.

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Whatʼs to become of Deutsche Bank?

A little over a year until its 150th anniversary, Germanyʼs biggest lender is facing trying times. Still struggling to emerge from the financial crisis, Deutsche Bank canʼt find a cure to its ills, says Henrik Böhme.

The picture Deutsche Bank presents these days is sad indeed. Among the 30 blue-chip companies listed in the DAX stock market index, thereʼs not a single one to be had cheaper than the once mighty German lender. The bankʼs stock barely holds its ground above €7 ($7.9) a share — what a disaster! Its market value has slumped to just €14 billion,which makes comparing Germanyʼs biggest lender to its former US rivals almost a joke. Today Americaʼs biggest bank is worth €296 billion. In a normal world of finance, a lender of Deutscheʼs current size would merely qualify for being taken

Eastern German states demand €60 billion for coal phaseout Very few people in the Western world work directly with coal anymore, but fears engendered by the phase-out of this fossil fuel in favor of cleaner energy sources remain politically potent.

Thatʼs especially apparent in eastern Germany, where, following US President Donald Trumpʼs lead, far-right populists are seeking to harness antienvironmentalism and anxiety about the economic future in the countryʼs poorest region. That was the backdrop to a press conference in Berlin on Friday at which the leaders of the three eastern German coal mining states — Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg — demanded a whopping €60 billion ($69 billion) in federal aid to stop producing lignite. They saidthe economic interests of those facing unemployment should take precedenceover environmental protection.

"We owe it to the people in our regions that the path is new jobs first, then the phaseout and then the discontinuation of existing production," said Saxony State Premier Michael Kretschmer of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU).

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Chinaʼs GDP growth slows to lowest rate in years Chinaʼs economic growth has slowed to its lowest rate in nine years during the third quarter of 2018, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday. The numbers showed the effects of Beijingʼs mounting debt as well astrade disputes with the United States. "Faced with an extremely complex environment abroad and the daunting task of reform and development at home," Chinaʼs growth has still managed to remain relatively steady, said NBS spokesman Mao Shengyong. The worldʼs secondlargest economy experienced 6.5 percent growth compared to the same quarter last year, but was slightly behind the first two quarters of 2018, which were 6.8 percent and 6.7 percent, respectively. Although exports have long been a staple of Chinaʼs economy, US tariffs targeting machinery, electronics, cars and appliances have decreased foreign investmentin these sectors. The US has accused China of pressuring foreign companies with Chinese offices to hand over protected technologies, if not outright stealing them.

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over, with the transaction easily funded out of a bigger competitorʼs pocket money. But no one wants to buy the ailing bank. Just this Thursday, Swiss bank UBS politely turned down the offer, with its chairman, Axel Weber, saying in a roundabout way that hopes for a merger were "merely part of scenarios" under discussion. Weber, the former head of the German central bank, the Bundesbank, told the Zurich-based newspaper Tages-Anzeiger that speculation about a tie-up was just talk, and that UBS wanted to grow on its own, despite weighing other business options.

EU strikes deal to slash emissions for new cars

The compromise was slightly lower than the 40 percent cut pursued by the EU parliament. Germanyʼs auto industry has warned that the move could damage Europeʼs standing in the auto market and endanger jobs.

The EU agreed on Monday to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissionsfrom new cars by 37.5 percent by 2030. The deal represents a compromise, as Germany sought a cut of 30 percent and the European Parliament had pursued a reduction of 40 percent. Austria, which currently holds the rotating EU Council presidency, made the announcement just two days after the COP24 summit concluded in Poland, where reducing emissions featured as a sore point for the participating nations. Vehicle exhaust fumes make up a large share of the emissions linked to climate change. A compromise EU member states have been divided for months over cutting CO2 emissions from vehicles. Car-producing nations such as Germany and others, such as Netherlands and Denmark, sparred over how strict the limit should be.

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This weekend, again! Vienna Coffee Festival! Worldʼs coolest coffee event is back!

Come to Vienna - its only 3 hours time from Budapest 11 - 13 January, 2019

NASA uninvites Russian Roscosmos head Rogozin Getting uninvited from a previously arranged visit could be perceived as an impolite slight. But when the guest is the director general of Russiaʼs space agency, Roscosmos, it can become an international relations incident. Rogozin was originally supposed to visit NASAʼs Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, in February 2019, with the option of speaking at nearby Rice University as well. But the visit was a complicated affair from the get-go. Rogozin first had to receive a special waiver, which the US Treasury Department granted in June 2018. He was on a US governmentsanctions list because of his involvement in Russiaʼs annexation of Crimeain 2014. During that time, he was a deputy prime minister within the Russian government. After several US senators voiced their criticism regarding Rogozinʼs upcoming visit, NASA rescinded its invitation.

Sting to return to Budapest for summer 2019

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Submarine trip to the Titanic booking soon — for those with deep pockets She is the most famous ship in the world — and the most famous shipwreck, as well. Youʼd be hardpressed to find a person who hasnʼt heard the tragic story of how the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg the night of April 14, 1912, and sank less than three hours later.

Only the most wealthy passengers could afford tickets for first-class cabins on the ocean linerʼs first — and final — trip. In 2019, those with vast coffers can roam the decks of the Titanic once again. A US company called OceanGate is planning several trips down to the

Titanic this summer, with seats in its deep-sea submarine going for $105,129 dollars (92,000 euros) a piece.

Thatʼs the equivalent of a first class ticket on the shipʼs maiden voyage, adjusted for inflation. The long-term mission, spread out over several years, is conceived as a "longitudinal survey to collect images, video and sonar data" and will "provide an objective basis to assess the decay of the wreck over time and help document and preserve its submerged history," according to OceanGate.

Sting is head over heels for Budapest. After a successful free show with Shaggy a month ago on Heroes’ Square, the former Police frontman has just announced another Budapest concert for next summer. On 2 July, the Grammy-winning singer brings his My Songs tour to the Papp László Aréna, where he will be taking the stage with his own band. From “Englishman In New York” to “Every Breath You Take”, the set should include Sting’s biggest hits. Tickets are on sale now.

Thanks to the largest-scale and most comprehensive reconstruction project in the museum’s history, the museum building has been renewed, and, returning to the collection’s first concept, the museum’s permanent exhibitions will also be rearranged. Besides the new permanent exhibitions, the revamped museum will welcome visitors with a chamber exhibition titled Leonardo & the Budapest Horse and Rider. The museum reconstruction, implemented within the framework of the Liget Budapest Project, included the restoration of the Romanesque Hall, which sustained severe damage in World War II and since then had been only partially renovated and used as a storage area, along with the modernisation of the building’s obsolete heating system, the installation of air conditioning in some of the exhibition halls, the renewal of a large part of the roof structure, as well as the addition of new exhibition spaces, visitor areas and modern storage facilities.

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Andy Murray to face Novak Djokovic in practice match before Australian Open

Britainʼs Andy Murray will face world number one Novak Djokovic in a practice match on Thursday as part of his preparations for the Australian Open. Murray has lost four times to Djokovic in the Australian Open final. Three-time Grand Slam champion Murray missed most of last season after hip surgery and has tumbled down the rankings to 230th. Australian Open organisers said the match on the Margaret Court Arena show court would be open to the public.

Former world champion boxer Markus Beyer dies

German regional public broadcaster MDR reported on Tuesday that Markus Beyer had passed away at the age of 47 in a Berlin hospital on Monday. It said he had died after a short battle with a serious illness, without providing further details. "We were given the news by a member of his family," MDRʼs program director, Wolf Dieter Jacobi told the DPA news agency. "We know about his illness and had hoped that he would beat it." Before turning professional, Beyer, who represented Germany at both the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, competed in the light middleweight division, winning a bronze mdeal at the 1996 World Amateur Boxing Championships and silver at the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships.

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Aleksandar Kolarovʼs free kick stunner secures Serbia win over Costa Rica A brilliant second half free kick from captain Aleksandar Kolarov led Serbia to a deserved win over Costa Rica. Serbia were wasteful in front of goal but did enough to secure three vital points in Group E. Another World Cup day, another sublime freekick. If Cristiano Ronaldo’s ice-cold effort tosnatch a point against archrivals Spain on day two was the current goal of the tournament front-runner, the Portuguese may have just met his match. Aleksandar Kolarov, take a bow. A combination of poor finishing and sublime goalkeeping had kept the scores level until Serbia’s no.11 produced his moment of magic.

Kolarov’s powerful left foot is no secret, but few inside the stadium would have expected such a thunderous strike when the Roma defender stood over a free kick midway through the second half. His shot was unstoppable; a sidefooted missile which screamed into the top corner of the Costa Rica net. Kaylor Navas, who kept his team in the game with several crucial saves either side of half time, was nowhere near it.

Paris St-Germain goalkeeper reveals he had depression Gianluigi Buffon left Juventus for Paris St-Germain in 2018

Paris St-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has revealed he suffered with depression and once missed a Juventus game after having a panic attack.

Former Italy international Buffon, 40, spent 17 years at Juventus, playing 656 times and winning nine Serie A titles, before his 2018 move to PSG. But in an interview with Vanity Fair, Buffon says he struggled during his early years with the Italian giants. "For a few months, everything lost meaning," he said. He added: "It seemed like no-one cared about me, just the footballer I represented. "It was like everyone was asking about Buffon and nobody about Gigi." Buffon, who won the

World Cup with Italy in 2006, says the turning point came at the age of 25 when he told Juveʼs goalkeeping coach he couldnʼt play in a Serie A match. "I went to Ivano Bordon, the goalkeeper coach, and told him: ʼIvano, get [goalkeeper Antonio] Chimenti to warm up and play. Iʼm not feeling up to it.ʼ "I had suffered a panic attack and was in no state to play the match. "If I had not gone through this experience, that cloud and that turmoil with other people, I may have never have got out of it."

Mohamed Salah nets second African Footballer of the Year title Egypt and Liverpool soccer star Mohamed Salah has picked up the Confederation of African Footballʼs top player award for a second successive year. The Bundesligaʼs Achraf Hakimi was honored in the youth player category.

Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah bagged the African Footballer of the Year title for the second year running on Tuesday, at the Confederation of African Footballʼs awards ceremony in Dakar. "This award is very big for me, I love it because I saw it when I was young and I always had a dream to win it one day," Salah said as he collected his trophy at the ceremony

in the Senegalese capital. "Iʼm proud to win it twice, I must thank my family and my teammates, and I dedicate this award to my country, Egypt."

Free-scoring Salah helped Jürgen Kloppʼs Liverpool reach the 2018 Champions League final, but he suffered a shoulder injury early on in the 3-1 defeat by Real Madridin Kyiv.

He scored twice for Egypt in the World Cup in Russia, though the sideexited in the first round. The 26-yearold is the fourth player to win the award twice consecutively, after Senegalʼs El Hadji Diouf, Cameroonian Samuel Etoʼo, and Ivory Coastʼs Yaya Toure.