Issuu

DAILY NEWS IN ENGLISH

Tens of thousands rally in Munich against far-right and new police laws Tens of thousands of people celebrated German Unity Day by taking to the streets of Munich to rally against the regional government, less than two weeks before Bavarian state elections. Marching under the banner "Jetzt Giltʼs" (roughly translated as "Now itʼs time"), activists protested against thelocal Christian Social Union (CSU) governmentand its shift to the right amid the rise of the populist AfD. Demonstrators also denounced the stateʼs hard-line police bill that came into effect back in May.Authorities said at least 21,000 people took part in the demonstrations, although organizers placed the number at around 40,000.

ʼRolls-Royceʼ of whisky fetches record $1 million at auction One of the worldʼs most indemand whiskies has been auctioned off in Edinburgh, Scotland, with the buyer shelling out a record-breaking £848,750 ($1.1 million, €957,800) for the distilled spirit. The Scotch whisky, a Macallan Valerio Adami 1926, was one of just 24 bottles produced by the Macallan distillery in 1986. Distilled in 1926, the whisky spent 60 years aging in a cask before being bottled. "Itʼs the Rolls-Royce of malts," said Martin Green, the whisky specialist at Bonhams, the luxury auction house that offered up the bottle on Wednesday. A private buyer from Asia placed the winning bid on the bottle via phone, Bonhams said. Bonhams drink expert Richard Harvey told the AFP news agency that interest from Asia in whisky is booming. About "a third to 40 percent of our sales go out to buyers in the Far East," Harvey said.

228/2018 • 5 OCTOBER, 2018

Irish authority investigates security failure Facebook data breach:

Peru revokes Alberto Fujimoriʼs pardon as expresident hospitalized Alberto Fujimori has been taken to a hospital, just hours after the countryʼs top court annulled a pardon granted to the ex-president last year that protected him from prosecution for human rights crimes. Earlier Wednesday, Supreme Court Judge Hugo Nunez ruled that Fujimori was to serve out the remainder of his 25year prison sentence because the pardon he received in December was incompatible with the American Convention on Human Rights, to which Peru is a signatory.

UK, Australia blame Russia for series of global cyberattacks Irelandʼs data protection authority has launched a probe into the Facebook security breach that affected some 50 million users. The move could see EU law — and strict fines — come to bear on the social media giant. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched an investigation into last weekʼs data breach at Facebookthat affected some 50 million users. The data watchdog said it would look into whether the tech giant had complied withEuropean data protection regulations that went into effect this year. In a statement Wednesday, Irelandʼs data regulator said it was examining whether Facebook put in place the "appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the security and safeguarding of the personal data it processes." It marks the first major test for Europeʼs newly beefed-up data protection laws known as theGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force in May. The regulations place strong controls on how technology companies store European user information. Facebookʼs European subsidiary is located in Ireland, so the Irish DPC is the organization that regulates the social network on the continent. The social network site admitted to the breach in a blog post last Friday, saying hackers had exploited a vulnerability in the websiteʼs code that may have given them access to millions of usersʼ accounts. Fewer than 10 per-

cent of the estimated 50 million affected accounts are thought to be European users, according tothe DPC. Under the EUʼs GDPR bill, companies in breach of the regulations can face amaximum fine of up to 4 percent of global revenues. Facebook made almost €35.2 billion ($40.6 billion) in revenues last year, meaning the total fine could amount to around €1.4 billion. However, EU Justice and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Vera Jourova has said the social media giant was unlikely to face the maximum fine because it had adhered to rules requiring it to report the data breach within 72 hours upon its discovery. This "is one of the factors which might result in lower sanctions," Jourova said Tuesday, although she ominously added that "this is only theoretical." Facebook has already suffered asullying of its reputation this year when it comes to data security. In March it was revealed how that information from tens of millions of user profiles was harvested and sent toCambridge Analytica, a political firm employed by the campaign to elect Donald Trump to the presidency. The companyʼs share price is down almost 8 percent year-to-date.

Britain has said Russiaʼs military intelligence agency GRU was "almost certainly" behind a campaign of online attacks targeting political institutions, businesses, media and sport bodies around the world. Attacks the UK has linked to Moscow include the 2017 BadRabbit ransomware attack that targeted an airport in Odessa and the Kyiv subway system, as well as media outlets in Russia, and the attempted hacking of the World AntiDoping Agency in 2017 in Switzerland . Other incidents include the hack of theUS Democratic National Committee in 2016and the theft of emails from a UK-based TV station in 2015. The British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) also identified numerous hacking groups, including APT28, Pawn Storm, Sandworm,Fancy Bearand the Sofacy Group, as being associated with the GRU.

weather today BUDAPEST

10 / 21 °C Precipitation: 0 mm

228/2018 • 5 October, 2018

European Court of Justice rules Polish arrest warrants can be halted The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled against extraditing suspects to Poland on Wednesday if there are "serious and fact-based grounds" to believe the suspect would not receive a fair trial. The ruling concernsa Polish man in Irelandwho claims recent justice reforms in Poland harmed his chances of being treated fairly. The man is suspected of drug trade. In recent years, Polandʼs ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has been working to place courts under a tighter control of the executive branch. Among other steps, the parliament now has power to choose members of the National Council of the Judiciary whose job is to oversee judicial impartiality. More recently, the lawmakers changed retirement age for the Supreme Court judges, which critics believe was aimed at ousting the most experienced judges and stacking the body with government supporters. The Supreme Court and its chief Malgorzata Gersdorf are opposing the move.

Geely the car industryʼs rising ʼprofitability starʼ Ferdinand Dudenhöffer from the CAR Center Automotive Research at Germanyʼs Duisburg-Essen University called Chinese auto manufacturer Geely "the profitability star of the worldʼs car industry." A fresh study by the center points out that on average, a Geely car costs just €9,529 ($10,942), but the companysecures a 14.4 percent profit from revenues before tax and interest. Dudenhöffer says thatʼs a lot more than, say, the profit margins of foreign rivals BMW, Toyota or PSAOpel. The worldʼs largest carmaker, Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen, logs a profit margin of only 8.2 percent, the survey says. Geely is part of the Zhejiang Geely Holding,which also owns Volvo Cars, London EVTaxi and Lotus.The holding has also acquired a 10 percent stake in Daimler. According to the CAR researchers, Geelyʼs rapid rise is based on its successful compact car platform, which it developed together with Sweden-based Volvo. "What Ferdinand Piëch managed to implement at VW from 1993 with the help of his platform strategyis in a way being copied now by Geelyʼs main shareholder and founder, Li Shufu," said Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, adding that the Chinese were becoming major players in the global auto market. 2

Sexual assault still underreported at Munich Oktoberfest Some even say it has become predictable

Mexican journalist shot dead at restaurant Sergio Martinez Gonzalez, the editor of a local news outlet in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, was shot dead Wednesday morning, the latest victim in Mexicoʼs wave of journalist murders. Martinez, who owned and ran the publication Enfoque, had just dropped off his daughters at school and was breakfasting with his wife at a local restaurant when two people on a motorcycle stopped in front of the couple and opened fire, local media reported. Martinezʼs wife survived the attack, and was receiving medical attention, Mexican newspaper El Uni‐ versal said. The Chiapas attorney generalʼs office announced on Twitter that it was investigating the murder.

Oktoberfest is known around the world for its beer, pretzels and lederhosen. But female visitors frequently find themselves the targets of harassment and groping. Groups of lederhosen-clad men and women wearing dirndls excitedly walk through the stalls and food stands atMunichʼs infamous Oktoberfest, lining up outside its even more infamous beer tents in hopes of getting a warm spot inside on a chilly night in early October. When asked whether they felt safe, particularly after a man died following a fight at a beer tentthis year, women visiting Oktoberfest were quick to praise the high number of police officers and other security officials patrolling the festival grounds. When asked if they felt safe as women at Oktoberfest — they

Confusion over missing Saudi journalist in Turkey who ʼvanishedʼ from consulate Turkish and Saudi officials have given conflicting reports on the whereabouts of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday. Khashoggi, a regular contributor to The Washington Post, has been a fierce critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and has criticized Saudi Arabiaʼs policies toward Qatar and Canada,the war in Yemen and a

paused. So far this year, Munich police have logged 21 cases of sexual offenses at Oktoberfest — includingsexual harassment, sexual assault and rape. On the first day of Oktoberfest on September 22, police arrested a 25-year-old man from Munich after he allegedly raped a 21-year-old woman from Finland in the bushes on festival grounds. A few days later, an unidentified man allegedly grabbed a 43-year-old woman underneath her skirt. When she confronted him, the man smashed his 1-liter (1-quart) beer glass in the womanʼs face. crackdown on dissent, the media and activists. Khashoggiʼs personal website bore a banner saying, "Jamal has been arrested at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul!" without elaborating. A Saudi official denied that Khashoggi had been detained inside the consulate. "Mr. Khashoggi visited the consulate to request paperwork related to his marital status and exited shortly thereafter," the official said. "He is neither in the consulate nor in Saudi custody."

Afghan leader rejects resignation of spy chief, top ministers President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday

urged Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak, Defense Minister Tareq Shah Bahrami, and intelligence chief Masoum Stanekzai to stay in their posts, the Afghan government said. The three officials submitted resignation letters on Saturday, citing policy differences and a spate of deadly attacks. "President Ghani did not approve their resignations... and gave them the necessary instructions to improve the security situation," a statement from the presidential palace said. The offers to step down followed the resignation of Ghaniʼs national security adviser and close ally, Hanif Atmar, on Friday. Atmar, one of the countryʼs most powerful politicians, has been replaced by former ambassador to the US Hamdullah Mohib.

228/2018 • 5 October, 2018

Man arrested over ricin mail scare at Pentagon, White House Authorities have arrested a US Navy veteran in Utah over suspicious envelopes sent to President Donald Trump and top military chiefs. Officials suspected the envelopes to have contained the lethal poison ricin. William Clyde Allen III, a 39-year-old Utah resident, has been detained in connection with two suspicious envelopes sent to the White House and the Pentagon earlier this week, US authorities have said. The FBI said it was investigating "potentially hazardous chemicals" in the city of Logan, where the arrest took place, and asked people to avoid the area. At the same time, it said there was no "wider threat to public safety." On Monday, the Pentagon received two letters that triggered an

Police identify source of deadly Novichok nerve agent in UK deaths British police announced Friday that they found a bottle containing the Novichok nerve agent in the home of one of the victims of a nerve agent poisoning in Wiltshire last month. "On Wednesday, 11 July, a small bottle was recovered during searches of Charlie Rowleyʼs house in Amesbury," police said in a statement. The statement said scientists from Porton Down defense laboratory confirmed the bottle contained the Novichok nerve agent, the same poison used against Sergei Skripal and his daughter earlier this year. "Further scientific tests will be carried out to try and establish whether it is from the same batch that contaminated Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March," the force said, adding that a link to the Skripals remained "a main line of enquiry for police." Dawn Sturgess died in a hospitalon Sunday after exposure to the nerve agent. Her partner, Rowley, isstill in critical condition, but has regained consciousness. The Foreign Office said on Friday it had invited independent technical experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons early next week "to independently confirm the identity of the nerve agent."

alert in its mail scanning facility. Initially, defense officials suspected the packages contained ricin,a powerful poison derived from castor beans. The letters were reportedly addressed to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Navy chief Admiral John Richardson. Separately, the Secret Service said it was investigating a similar letter addressed to the US President Donald Trump. The letter was sent to the White House but it never entered the presidential residence.

Austrian man handed 10,000 euro bill for lost hotel key

A man in Austria was shocked to be handed a bill from a debt collection agency for €10,365 ($12,000) after misplacing his hotel key, local media reported on Wednesday. According to the Tiroler Tagezeitung daily, the key was a skeleton key for the entire building, and now the owner is claiming all of the hotelʼs intricate locks must be replaced. "If you lose a key, you have to replace it. That is undisputed," said Christian Schuster-Wolf, who works for the Austrian govern-

mentʼs consumer protection agency, but "a hotel owner can only demand compensation in the amount of damage actually suffered." The owner of the hotel on Austriaʼs scenic Lake Neusiedl on the Hungarian border was reportedly presented with an estimate from a master locksmith that quoted around €6,334 as the cost of replacing 27 double-cylinder locks. The owner was claiming a further €3,000 in lost revenue for when the locks are replaced.

Opel reported to have manipulated diesel car exhaust emissions According to a media report, automaker Opel is being investigated for manipulating vehicle emissions on about 60,000 cars worldwide. It is the first time the company has been named since Dieselgate broke in 2015.

228/2018 • 5 October, 2018

Germany attempts ʼfacesavingʼ resolution to Saudi drugs boycott The human rightsrow between Saudi Arabia and Canada made international headlinesin recent weeks, when the Riyadh government suddenly suspended new trade and investment to the Great White North. The punitive measures were in response to a simple tweet by Canadaʼs foreign minster, calling for the release of two jailed Saudi activists. Receiving less attention has been the diplomatic spat between Europeʼs No. 1 economy and the oil-rich kingdom — also sparked by a ministerʼs comments; this time Sigmar Gabriel, Germanyʼs thenforeign minister. During the political crisis in Lebanon last November that saw Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resign and later rescind his decision, Riyadh was widely accused of forcing his departure, which Gabriel alluded to as "adventurism." ʼShamefulʼ remarks hurt tiesRiyadh immediately recalled its ambassador to Berlin, telling the German government the comments were "shameful." In May, it went further and froze all new business with Germany. Over the subsequent months, several German pharmaceutical and medical technology firms, including Siemens Healthineers, Bayer and Boerhringer Ingelheim, have been excluded from public healthcare tenders in the kingdom. A pharmaceutical industry source told DW, on condition of anonymity, that Saudi authorities had not given any written explanation about the exclusion, and that there was no clear path for Germany to resolve the issue. Efforts by German diplomats to mediate with Saudi authorities were delayed, initially, by the Holy Month of Ramadan, and the summer break, as Gulf countries stop work in July and August due to the extreme heat.

T-Mobile reports cybersecurity incident T-Mobile US and its unit Metro PCS told customers that cybersecurity staff found and shut down unauthorized access to certain information on August 20 and immediately reported the matter to authorities. The company added that no financial data, social security numbers or passwords were compromised during the attackon its networks, admitting, though, that other personal information like names, email IDs, phone numbers as well as account numbers or account types (postpaid or prepaid) may have been exposed. T-Mobile said that about 3 percent of its 77 million customers could have been affected (roughly 2 million people potentially affected). 4

Proportion of misspent EU funds falling The latest annual report of EU finance auditors has shown that the blocʼs budget misspending is steadily decreasing. Irregularities and fraud attempts are still in place, but accountability pressures are rising. The level of irregularities in EU budget spending dropped again throughout 2017,the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said in its latest annual report on Thursday. The ECA is an independent audit institution of the European Union,with its regular reports being an essential element of the blocʼs accountability chain. The auditors said EU spending totaled €137.4 billion ($157.7 billion), or around €270 for every citizen in the 28-member bloc. This amounted to just 0.9 percent of EU gross national income and represented roughly 2 percent of total public

No breakthrough in China-US trade talks Chinaʼs Ministry of Commerce said on Friday that it had held "constructive meetings" with US officialsafter talks resumed between the countries over their ongoing trade spat. Nonetheless, with no major breakthrough yet in sight, the resumption of talks did not prevent an additional $16 billion (€13.83 billion) of tariffs being levied by the US and China on each otherʼs goods, starting from Thursday. Read more: US-China trade spat: Clash of the titans, part 2 Talks took place on Wednesday and Thursday aimed at defusing the escalating conflict, which has now seen both countries slap $50 billion in tariffs on the otherʼs products, with more expected to follow. The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that the officials on both sides have vowed to "keep in contact" in the future. High-tech will suffer, says China Meanwhile, a prominent Chinese state planner said on Friday that US tariffs onhightech Chinese technology would have an impact on the tech sectors in both countries.

Hotel Parlament H-Budapest 1054, Kálmán Imre utca 19. T.: +36 1 374 6000 reservation@parlament-hotel.hu www.parlament-hotel.hu

Kalashnikov unveils new electric car Kalashnikov,a company moreknown for its AK-47 machine gunsthan its electric vehicles, unveiled its new electric car on Thursday. The powder-blue prototype, dubbed the CV-1, was unveiled by the Russian arms maker at a defense expo outside of Moscow. Kalashnikov Concern told Russian media that the technology within its "electric supercar" will rival that of Elon Muskʼs Tesla. "This technology will allow us to stand in line with the worldʼs electric car manufacturers, like Tesla, and compete with them," a spokesperson told Sputnik. According to the company, the vehicle can travel 350 kilometers (217 miles) on a single charge. The carʼs retro look was inspired by a Soviet hatchback model developed in the 1970s, the "Izh-Kombi," Kalashnikov said in a statement on its website. The CV-1ʼs light blue color, large grill, retro door handles and boxy frame have received mixed reviews from Russians. On social media, some described the car as "cyberpunk" while others referred to it as the "Izh-Zombie."

Published by: Mega Media Kft. 1075 Budapest, Madách I. út 13-14. +36 1 398 0344 www.hotelujsag.hu

spending in member states. ECAʼs 2017 report said it found 13 instances of suspected fraud out of some 700 transactions audited last year. It said the cases were forwarded to the EUʼs anti-fraud office, OLAF. The survey emphasized that overall, the level of irregularities in EU spending reached 2.4 percent in 2017, down from 3.1 percent in 2016 and 3.8 percent in 2015. It noted that sufficient information was available from member statesto prevent or detect and correct a significant proportion of errors, for example in rural development payments.

German firm fined millions in ʼsausage cartelʼ case

Sausage prices had been artificially inflated in Germany for decades, according to the nationʼs anti-cartel authority. Food producer Wiltmann faces a large fine after refusing to hide behind the "sausage loophole." Germanyʼs "sausage cartel" included over 20 companies that had conspired to keep sausage prices high by using their "sandwich position" between meat suppliers and supermarkets, a regional court in Düsseldorf ruled on Tuesday. The court rejectedthe appeal of food producing company Wiltmannand ordered it to pay a fine of €6.5 million ($7.5 million) for price fixing. Company executive Wolfgang Ingold should personally dish out €350,000. The court found that the north German company was involved in the scheme between 1997 and 2009, but Germanyʼs anti-cartel watchdog believes that the conspiracy first started in the early 1980s. "The cartel was set up to last," presiding judge Ulrich Egger said on Tuesday, comparing the sausage producers to a "small family."

228/2018 • 5 October, 2018

Study shows glyphosate may be killing honeybees Now, new research shows that glyphosate may be indirectly killing bees

A Germany Year in the US: Opening up the conversation They are very important to us. German-American cultural relations continue to be very intense. They rest on a stable foundation. Postwar German culture was heavily influenced by America and remains so to this day. For example, Iʼm going to see the newSpike Lee movie with my kids tonight... At the same time, important German cultural voices have been heard in the US — fromJoseph Beuys toGerhard Richter, to name just two. And when Germanyʼs president recently opened a new place of intellectual exchange, the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, it was warmly received. Of course, people working in the field of culture and those interested in culture in the US tend to be critical of the countryʼs current administration. We know that we only reach part of the population through cultural ties. But those relations are very close and intact.

Zsidró Hair Salons offer services of the highest quality in the close neighbourhood of your hotel! Glyphosate, the worldʼs most widely used weed killer, has caused concerns over its potential risk to human health and the environment for decades. Brand-new research from the University of Texas at Austin shows that glyphosate is hazardous for bees. For this study, scientists exposed honeybees to glyphosate at levels known to occur in crop fields, yards and roadsides. The researchers painted the beesʼ backs with colored dots so they could be tracked and later recaptured. Three days later, they observed that the honeybees exposed to glyphosate lost some of the beneficial bacteria in their guts and were

more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria. Their conclusionis that by altering a beeʼs gut microbiome — the ecosystem of bacteria living in the beeʼs digestive tract, including those that protect it from harmful bacteria — glyphosate compromises its ability to fight infection. And that, scientists believe, is evidence that glyphosate might be contributing to the decline of honeybees and native bees around the world.

name just two. And when Germanyʼs president recently opened a new place of intellectual exchange, the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, it was warmly received. Of course, people working in the field of culture and those interested in culture in the US tend to be critical of the countryʼs current administration. We know that we only reach part of the population through cultural ties. But those relations are very close and intact.

Bring Daily Newspaper over Andrássy street to Zsidró salon, and you will get -10% off the price of your haircut/hairstyling! Services: Hair Styling: haircut, professional dying, styling PRECEDING the newest trends, hairstyle consultation, treatment for scalp problems (oily or irritated scalp, dandruff, hair loss) also for gentlemen! professional correction of dye jobs gone wrong, etc. Address: Andrássy Rd. Salon 17 Andrássy Rd. Budapest (opposite to Hotel Moments) Phone: +36 1 342 73 66 With no appointment as well! Just come over!

Weather

Sat

8 / 22

Sun

Mon

7 / 21

8 / 20

Hungary Budapest: Debrecen: Eger: Hévíz:

10/21 9/18 11/18 10/16

Athens: Berlin: Bratislava: Bucharest: London: Madrid:

21/23 11/24 11/26 17/26 13/18 11/22

Kecskemét: Keszthely: Siófok:

11/17 12/18 12/16

Europe Moscow: Paris: Prague: Rome: Varsaw: Vienna:

11/24 12/20 22/16 12/19 10/26 15/16

Culture

What’s happening in Budapest – September 2018 Festivals, cool concerts, cultural events and amazing parties – Budapest is always buzzing. Every month, we bring together all of the important happenings taking place in and around Hungary’s capital, so you can plan ahead. In September, the Budapest Wine Festival, the National Gallop and cool concerts are all among the many exciting events you shouldn’t miss. Whether you would like to shake it to the coolest beats, immerse yourself in culture or give in to guilty pleasures, we present a bunch of suggestions for the upcoming weeks. Get out there and enjoy everything that Budapest has to offer! Budapest Urban Games A38 concerts Ricky Martin Budapest Wine Festival Food Truck Show Budapest 33rd Wizz Air Budapest Half Marathon National Gallop Sweet Days Chocolate and Sweets Oktoberfest Dub FX In September, scores of cool concerts will be rocking the A38 Ship, a repurposed Ukrainian cargo vessel that is today one of the hottest hangouts in Budapest. Parties aboard are plenty, but here is our pick of the bunch: on September 24th ‘the occult Nick Cave’, King Dude, brings his new album to Budapest, performing with the Icelandic dark-wave trio, Kælan Mikla. On September 28th, another album launch will be presented, by Berlin-based downtempo-nu-jazz collective, Jazzanova, and on 30th, one of the most unique characters in contemporary European r’n’b-pop, Dena, brings a gentle mix of modern glitter and DIYBalkan aesthetics aboard.

228/2018 • 5 October, 2018

Croatian court rejects perjury charge against Luka Modric

A Croatian court has rejected a charge of perjury against Luka Modric, recently named as the best football player in the world. Croatian prosecutors have accused him of giving false testimony at the trial of an exexecutive of his former club Dinamo Zagreb. It related to Mr Modricʼs transfer to Tottenham Hotspur in 2008. A Zagreb criminal court rejected the accusation against Mr Modric, although its ruling can be appealed. The trial involved Dinamo chief executive Zdravko Mamic and three officials, all sentenced to prison over embezzled funds from player transfers - though Mamic fled the country to Bosnia. It is thought the embezzlement cost Dinamo Zagreb more than €15m (£13.1m; $16.7m), and the state €1.5m.

Kanye West urges NFL player to meet with Donald Trump

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 arch-rivals 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 side-footed 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.

Cristiano Ronaldo denies rape allegations via Twitter Cristiano Ronaldo has now personally declared his innocence

After a German magazine published allegations, lawyers threatened to sue and police reopened an investigation, Cristiano Ronaldo has now personally declared his innocence. These tweets come after Ronaldo said the following on an Instagram live video on September 30: "Fake news. They want to promote by my name. Itʼs normal," he said. "They want to be famous to say my name. But if itʼs part of the job, Iʼm a happy man and itʼs all good." The post was subsequently deleted. German magazine Der Spiegel initially published Mayorgaʼs accusations, stating the lawyerʼs case is based on a document containing Ronaldoʼs

account of what happened on June 12, 2009. In it, Spiegel reported that the 33-year-old "said ʼnoʼ and ʼstopʼ several times." Lawyers for the Juventus forward responded by saying they would sue Der Spiegel, while Las Vegas police confirmed they had re-opened a case filed on that date, but did not identify the victim or the alleged perpetrator. Mayorgaʼs lawyers are to hold a news conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday to discuss the case.

Antoine Griezmann has been involved in 18 of Atleticoʼs past 20 Champions League goals American rapper Kanye West has urged NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick to "tell your experience directly" to US President Donald Trump. In 2016, Kaepernick was criticised by Trump after he became the first player to kneel during the national anthem to highlight racial injustice. Last month, Trump said Nike had sent a "terrible message" when they named the 30-year-old as the face of the brandʼsnew advertising campaign. West urged them to open a "dialogue". Writing onTwitter, he said: "Reaching out to Colin Kaepernick. 6

Antoine Griezmann scored twice as Atletico Madrid made it two wins out of two in the Champions League. Griezmann stroked Atletico ahead in the first half but Arnaut Danjuma levelled matters before the break. Diego Simeoneʼs side pressed and were rewarded when Griezmann drilled home his second from Diego Costaʼs pass. Koke then sealed the win from Griezmannʼs assist in injury time. Borussia Dortmund join Atletico on top of Group A after a 3-0 win over Monaco. Atletico Madrid did not create much

but still had enough to see off the Belgian champions, who have now lost eight Champions League games in a row. Brugge did though score the best goal of the game, Danjuma bending in a stunning strike from the corner of the area. At the Westfalenstadion, Dortmundʼs English teenager Jadon Sancho continued his impressive run of assists, setting up Jan Bruun Larsen for the opening goal. Sancho set up two goals inDortmundʼs comeback win at Bayer Leverkusenon Saturday and his knack of producing killer passes unlocked this game in the second half.