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North Korean soldier shot trying to defect to South A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded as he made it to a South Korean controlled border post. It was a rare defection at the only point where soldiers from the two sides stand just meters from each other. A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea on Monday by bolting across the border truce village of Panmunjom, the only place along the heavilymilitarized Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where the two sides stand face-to-face. The North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by his own side before reaching the section controlled by South Korea. He was taken by helicopter to a hospital.

There was no exchange of gunfire between the two sides, but South Korea said its forces were put on alert. North Korean soldiersoccasionally try to defectacross the heavily-fortified DMZ, but it is rare for defections at Panmunjom.

Yemeni ports to reopen for aid, says Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, reacting to UN famine warnings, says ports in Yemen under its control will reopen for aid shipments. Riyadh had shut them down last week after a missile attack blamed on Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

The Saudi mission at the UN announced Monday that "all ports" controlled by Yemenʼs Saudibacked government would reopen "within the next 24 hours."

Last week, UN and other international agenciesheaped criticism on the Saudi-induced port closures, warning that the blockade would bring millions of Yemenis closer to famine deaths if not lifted.

The ports to reopen were Aden, Mocha and Mukalla, said a statement from the Saudi UN mission. It also asked the UN to send inspectors to ports in rebelheld areas, like Hodeida, to avert alleged weapons smuggling.

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Donald Trump Jr. releases exchange with WikiLeaks Twitter account The oldest son of US President Donald Trump revealed direct messages with WikiLeaksʼ Twitter account

The material has been submitted to congressional committees looking at Russiaʼs involvement in the US election.

Donald Trump Jr. released a series of screenshots on Monday showing Twitter messages between himself and WikiLeaks sent during the final stages of the 2016 presidential election. In the exchange, WikiLeaks asked Trump Jr., the oldest son of US President Donald Trump, to push an article critical of former Democratic presidential candidate Hilary Clinton. It also tried to convince Trump Jr. to leak his fatherʼs tax returns in order to "dramatically improve" Wikileaksʼ perceived impartiality. "That means that the vast amount of stuff that we are publishing about Clinton will have much higher impact," Wikileaks told Trump Jr. in one of the messages, "because it wonʼt be perceived as coming from a ʼproTrumpʼ ʼpro-Russianʼ source, which the Clinton campaign is constantly slandering us with." The messages began in September 2016 and ran through to the following July. Trump Jr. released the 10 screenshots just hours after American news magazine The Atlanticfirst

reported on them, being sure to highlight his "whopping three responses." In a statement, Trump Jr.ʼs lawyer, Alan Futerfas, said thousands of documents, including the direct messages, had been turned over to US congressional committees investigating Russian intervention during the 2016 presidential election. "Putting aside the question as to why or by whom such documents, provided to Congress under promises of confidentiality, have been selectively leaked, we can say with confidence that we have no concerns about these documents and any questions raised about them have been easily answered in the appropriate forum," said Futerfas. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called on the panel to subpoena more documents and force Trump Jr., who spoke with the committee privately in March, to publicly testify. "There seems to be no reasonable explanation for these messages," Blumenthal said.

Left-wing extremism: German police step up search for former RAF terrorists German police have released new photos and videos of three former Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorists who are linked to at least nine robberies. The suspects allegedly robbed an armored car last year with a bazooka. After decades of searching forthree former members of the leftist Red Army Faction (RAF)militant group, German police published new videos and photos of the suspects on Monday in the hopes of getting a concrete lead. Ernst-Volker Staub, Burkhard Garweg and Daniela Klette are suspected of carrying out nine robberies in northern Germany after years hiding from authorities. Lower Saxonyʼs state criminal police office circulated videos which allegedly depict 63-year-old Staub and 49-year-old Garweg carrying out an armed robbery at a supermarket in the northern German town of Hildesheim last May.

Amnesty slams Syrian regime for crimes against humanity Amnesty International says the Syrian regime has conducted unlawful sieges aimed at forcing civilians from their homes ahead of "reconciliation" accords. It accuses Damascus of using "surrender or starve" tactics. The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has committed crimes against humanity and war crimes by subjecting cities to unlawful sieges that gave civilians no choice but to give up or die, rights group Amnesty International said on Monday.

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Germany recovers from deadly Storm Herwart The second major storm to hit Germany in a month has flooded city streets and caused havoc for transport. Four people were killed when the brutal winds brought down trees in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Germany was still reeling from the aftermath ofStorm Herwarton Tuesday after days of train standstills, flooding and traffic chaos that destroyed historic buildings and caused Berlin to declare a state of emergency. In the Czech Republic and Poland, Herwart claimed the lives of four people who were struck by falling trees. On the North Sea island of Langeoog, a freight ship remained stranded on the beach after flood waters receded. The town has called in top salvage experts, who remained stumped two days after the worst of the storm. Over the weekend, the storm wrecked havoc on the nationʼs transport system.

The trains in much of northern Germany, including Hannover and Hamburg, came to a complete stop – forcing rail operator Deutsche Bahn to send thousands of passengers in cramped taxis, sometimes for hours, to destinations as far away as Berlin.

German police detain Syrian for ʼpreparingʼ explosives attack

A 19-year-old Syrian has been detained on suspicion of planning to carry out a terror attack in Germany.

The man was ready to carry out the attack using highly explosive materials, according to prosecutors.

A Syrian man suspected of planning a terror attack was detained in the northern German city of Schwerin, the Federal Prosecutorʼs Office said on Tuesday in a statement. The suspect, identified as 19-year-old Yamen A., was taken into police custody. Prosecutors said in a statement that the teen is "strongly suspected of having planned an Islamist-motivated attack" that involved "highly explosive" materials.

Authorities added that Yamen A. had already "concretely prepared" the attack. In July this year, the suspect made the decision to detonate an explosive device in Germany "in order to kill and injure as many people as possible," the statement read. Yamen A. then began to procure components to make an explosive device, including chemicals. It was not initially clear whether the suspect had selected a location to carry out the attack, prosecutors said. They added that there are no signs that Yamen A. was connected toany terrorist organizations.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the suspectʼs arrest prevented a "serious terror attack in Germany."

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Karl Lagerfeld evokes Holocaust to bash Germanyʼs Angela Merkel on refugees Franceʼs media regulator has launched a probe after he made the remarks on a popular French talk show

The German fashion designer has criticized the "pastorʼs daughter" for opening Germany to "millions" of migrants.

Franceʼs media regulator announced on Monday that several hundred people had launched complaints againstGerman fashion designer Karl Lagerfeldafter he appeared on a French talk show over the weekend. Lagerfeld, who sits ashead creative director for Chaneland Fendi, sparked outrage on Saturday when he evoked the Holocaust to criticize German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her

Donald Trump to new Fed boss: Youʼre hired!

US President Trump is turning the announcement of a new Federal Reserve head into a reality TV experience like his show The Apprentice. But is it just a distraction from other problems? Jens Korte reports from New York. US President Donald Trump is looking for a suitable candidate to take over the US Federal Reserve Bank, which is by many accounts the second most important position in America after the president. But the casting for the job is a throwback to his days on the reality TV show "The Apprentice" when he played himself, Donald Trump, the real estate mogul and businessman. In the show, he selected candidates from a group of

open-door policy toward refugees fleeing conflict. "One cannot — even if there are decades between them — kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place," Lagerfeld told a French television show on Saturday. "I know someone in Germany who took in a young Syrian and after four days said, ʼThe greatest thing Germany invented was the Holocaust.ʼ" applicants who were then allowed to work for him as an "apprentice." The process was long and accompanied by as much spectacle as possible. As president, Trump is now staging what the political website The Hill mockingly called "Central Bank Apprentice." For months, Trump has been tossing out names — such as Gary Cohn, formerly the number two at the investment bank Goldman Sachs, and who was seen as a favorite for the position for several months — only to drop them unceremoniously.

German job agency seeks minimum wage worker to trawl child porn photos from home

Australia shutters Papua New Guinea detention center Around 600 asylum seekers have refused to leave the facility, citing fears of attacks from locals. Australian lawmakers have warned of a "humanitarian emergency" when authorities in Papua New Guinea shut off the water.

Private security staff at a controversial Australian detention center in Papua New Guinea left the facility for the first time in years on Tuesday ahead of its expected closure.

The facility formed an integral part ofAustraliaʼs expensive offshore detention programknown as "Sovereign Borders." However, Papua New Guineaʼs Supreme Court ruled that the facility is unconstitutional and needed to be closed. Some 600 asylum seekers residing at the facility have refused to leave, saying the alternatives provided are less secure.

Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the campʼs closure would proceed, and that the asylum seekers have access to temporary residences nearby. "All have been informed for a considerable period of time that there is safe and secure alternate accommodation where health and other services will be maintained," Dutton told Reuters news agency in an emailed statement.

A Bavarian job ad sounded enticing until potential employees were told what it actually involved. Investigators have questioned the practise of unskilled, minimum wage workers sifting child porn collections from home.

A German business that posted job ads seeking workers to sift through troves of child pornography images came under scrutiny this week for its questionable handling of child abuse images. A data analysis business in the Bavarian city of Augsburg offered potential employees the chance to work from home in exchange for €450 ($525) a month, as part of a so-calledtax-free Minijob.

The job advertisement called for a "forensic image analyzer," according to local news outlets. Applicants needed their own computer and some computer experience. They would be given four to five days of training after which they could work from home.

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Donald Trump meets Philippine President Duterte as ASEAN summit kicks off in Manila US President Trump has said he has a "great relationship" with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as the two met at a regional summit in Manila. The meeting got off to a rocky start with a group handshake gone awry.

US President Donald Trump praisedPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterteon Monday after the two met on the sidelines of an international summit in Manila. Trump told reporters that he and Duterte have "a great relationship" and that he has "really enjoyed" being in the Philippines for the annual Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. The White House and Duterteʼs spokesman gave conflicting accounts on whether the

Anti-Semitic Anne Frank football stickers appear in Germany Stickers displaying Anne Frank wearing football jerseys have appeared in Germany as an antiSemitic provocation by neo-Nazi fans. Dortmund and Leipzig ultra groups appear to be copying their Italian counterparts.

An anti-Semitic campaign by far-right Italian football supporters appears to have spread to Germany, after stickers featuring murdered Jewish child diarist Anne Frank wearing a Schalke 04 football jersey have appeared in social media posts and stuck up around Düsseldorf, near the cities of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen, where the club Schalke is based. The fake Panini-style stickers were first reported by local blog Ruhrbarone, which published a photo of them it said had been found on the Facebook profile of a neo-Nazi active in the local far-right scene. No one has taken responsibility for creating the image, but the fact that Anne Frank is pictured wearing the jersey of Schalke 04, biggest rival of football club Borussia Dortmund (BVB), seems to corroborate Ruhrbaroneʼs speculation that the neo-Nazis are BVB supporters.

two discussed human rights issues in the meeting. "Human rights briefly came up in the context of the Philippinesʼ fight against illegal drugs," said White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. She added that the two also discussed the fight against the so-called "Islamic State" (IS) and narcotics.

However, Duterteʼs spokesman said that Trump did not raise any human rights concerns during the 40-minute meeting.

Emmanuel Macron — French savior or tormentor?

Elected six months ago on a platform of hope and change, French President Emmanuel Macron is taking no prisoners both at home and abroad in a bid to make his country great again.

Elizabeth Bryant reports from Paris.

The countryʼs 39-year-old president has been likened to Jupiter, Napoleon and Louis XIV — not necessarily in glowing terms— even as his approval ratings have plummeted from Mayʼs giddy post-election highs. But so far, Macron has crucially managed to duck themassive and crippling street proteststhat sunk previous efforts to

shake up the countryʼs sluggish economy and slash its near 10-percent unemployment rate. And the implosion of politics-as-usual in France that has seen traditional parties and leaders struggling to survive— and his fledgling La Republique En Marche party catapulted to power — has left him a clear path to govern. "In France, you cannot reform anything and remain popular," says analyst Philippe Moreau Defarges, of the Paris-based French Institute of International Relations. "And if he doesnʼt act quickly, he will lose."

Austrian full-face veil ban comes into effect Austriaʼs prohibition of full-face coverings has officially come into force. The government said the ban helps uphold Austrian values and promotes integration despite criticism from Muslim and refugee groups. People in Austria are now banned from covering their faces in public.

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Billions of euros are needed to renovate Germanyʼs schools, the teachersʼ association has said. Fixing unhygienic conditions and faulty heating systems has been "scandalously" delayed, the associationʼs head said.

The German Teachersʼ Association called on the next German government to approve billions of euros to renovate dilapidated schools in the country, according to a report published Monday.

"In light of the scandalous renovation backlog at numerous schools, the [next] coalition agreement must include a comprehensive investment program for school renovations and refurbishments," the associationʼs chairman Heinz-Peter Meidinger told the German daily newspaper Bild. The association is urging a minimum commitment of €10 billion ($11.6 billion) over the next four years. The Credit Institution for Reconstruction (KfW) previously estimated the total cost of repairing Germanyʼs crumbling schools at €34 billion — far above the associationʼs request, noted Meidinger. Meidinger, who is also a principal of a school in the southern state of Bavaria, expressed shock at the learning conditions at some schools in Germany. He listed cases of schools with "leaky roofs, mice and rats in the utility ducts, intolerable hygienic conditions in the toilets, poor thermal insulation and crumbling plaster on the interior and exterior walls and a lack of regular cleaning."

The conditions were a "shame" for Germany, Meidinger added.

Climate change: World way off track on Paris accord goals

Existing national goals will only meet one-third of the Paris climate target, according to a UN report.

The study comes less than a week before the world climate conference kicks off in Bonn.

As the United Nations prepares to welcomedelegates from across the world to Bonnon Monday for the two-week COP23 climate summit, it released a stark warning today. The national pledges currently on the table by the signatory countries will only bring a third of the reduction in emissions required by 2030 to meet global climate targets. The biggest roadblock is not with national governments, says the United Nations Environment Program report. Rather, the private sector and regional governments arenʼt increasing their climate action at a rate that would help close this gap. The Paris goal is to limit global warming to at least under 2 degrees Celsius — and to 1.5 degrees if possible — in order to avoid catastrophic climate change.

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BMW loses $158 million Swiss fine appeal It hasn’t been the best week for BMW. On Thursday, South Korea said it was fining the company for flouting emission rules and on Friday, a Swiss court confirmed a fine of $158 million for breaking competition laws.

German car manufacturer BMW has lost an appeal against a $158 million (€136 million) fine imposed on it by a Swiss court after it was found to have blocked Swiss residents buying its cars elsewhere in Europe. Originally imposed in 2012, the fine came about after the Swiss competition authority WEKO investigated several complaints from Swiss car buyers that they had been stopped from buying BMWs in other European countries,with the Bavarian

Trump likely to pick Powell as new United States Fed chair Under pressure from fresh allegations against his campaign team, US President Donald Trump is preparing to announce Fed governor Jerome Powell as his choice to replace Janet Yellen at the head of the central bank. Sources familiar with the matter told the news agency Reuters on Monday that Jerome Powell was the leading candidate of the Trump administration, with the White House sayingthe US presidentwas being expected to make the official announcement on Thursday. A US Federal Reserve governor since 2012, Powell is a well-known figure among bankers and investors. He worked as a partner at Carlyle Group from 1997 to 2005 after serving briefly in the administration of George W. Bush as US Treasury Secretary. Donald Trump has been deliberating between Powell alongside current chair Janet Yellen, and John Taylor, a Stanford economist who were also on the White House short list.

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Indiaʼs domestic workers face abuse without legal protection Indiaʼs labor ministry is currently preparing legislation to provide social security for domestic workers. But rights groups say more legal protection against mistreatment is necessary. Stories ofwealthy families in India physically abusing and mistreating young women employed as domestic workers in metropolitan areas are becoming more common in India. In a high-profile case last July, a 26-year-old domestic worker from Bangladesh lodged a compliant with Indian police saying she had been beaten up and held captive by her employers at a home located in the upscale gated community of Noida, a suburb of New Delhi. She was freed after friends and family gathered in protest outside the apartment complex where she was being held.

Her employers accused her of theft, but it was later discovered that she had not been paid for two months. The case is indicative of a larger trend of domestic workers in India being mistreated.

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companyʼs intention being to divert prospective customers into the far more expensive Swiss market.

Switzerlandʼs competition authority was told by more than 20 customers with Swiss addresses that they had been prevented from buying cars at BMW dealerships outside of Switzerland, many of them in Bavaria in southern Germany, where prices were as much as 25 percent lower than in neighboring Switzerland.

ʼOldestʼ evidence of grape winemaking dates to 8,000 years ago, say archaeologists

The ʼoldest evidence of grape winemakingʼ has been discovered in Georgia, according to researchers.

The fermented beverage is "central to civilization," said one of the studyʼs co-authors.

Scientists announced on Monday that the worldʼs earliest traces of grape wine-making were discovered in Georgia, dating back to nearly 8,000 years ago. The study published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) said the "discovery dates the origin of the practice to the Neolithic period around 6,000 BC, pushing it back 600 – 1,000 years from the previously accepted date." The researchers – hailing from the US, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Israel and Georgia – analyzed chemical compounds found in ceramic casks discovered at two archaeological sites called Gadachrili Gora and Shulaveris Gora, roughly 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Tbilisi. Using a combination of the latest mass spectrometry and chromatography techniques, analysis "confirmed tartaric acid, the fingerprint compound for grape and wine," the report said.

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Can we live in a world without fossil fuels?

Scientists give answers at COP23

Is it possible to fulfill all our global energy needs with renewables only? And which technologies work best to help us transition to a world without fossil fuels?

"A full decarbonization of the electricity system by 2050 is possible for lower system cost than today based on available technology," said Christian Breyer, who heads a team of international researchers at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) in Finland. Breyer and his team looked at data from all over the world, such as energy consumption, demographic development and weather. They also analyzed which technologies are expected to be the cheapest in the next three decades. "Energy transition is no longer a question of technical feasibility or economic viability, but

of political will," Breyer added.

Breyerʼs team and NGO Energy Watch Group (EWG) presentedtheir findingsatCOP23 in Bonn. Due to rapidly falling costs, solar photovoltaic (solar PV) and battery storage are the main drivers of securing the global energy supply. Solar PVʼs share of total power supply is expected to rise from 37 percent in 2030 to almost 70 percent by 2050, the study said. Wind energy would make up 18 percent, hydropower 8 percent and bioenergy 2 percent of the total global energy mix by 2050, according to the scientistsʼ estimates.

Self-driving bus starts first route in Germany Railway company Deutsche Bahn has introduced an autonomous bus to drive passengers along a preprogrammed route in Bavaria. In case of an emergency, a human driver can take control with a joystick.

The electric vehicle delivered its first passengers on Wednesday in Bad Birnach, Bavaria, starting on its eightminute route from the townʼs hot springs to the central area and the railway station. The EZ10 bus has six places to sit and can take in a further six standing passengers, and the ride is free of charge. Itʼs the first time a selfdriving bus has been incorporated in Germanyʼs public transport system.

Among the first group to ride the selfdriving bus was Richard Lutz, the head of the German railway giant Deutsche Bahn (DB), the company behind the pilot project. "Weʼve just driven, completely autonomously, into a new era of transport," he said in a statement after the first trip. The bus was developed by the French start-up EasyMile. It is equipped with sensors which can detect obstacles and activate brakes.The vehicle moves along a pre-programmed route with its speed initially limited to 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) per hour on a road with a 30 kph speed limit. Also, the bus is not yet capable of avoiding obstacles on its own.

Netflix to release Hungary’s Oscar Entry ‘On Body and Soul’

Teachers for AI — can robots create more jobs than they retire?

While headway in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry has many worried about potential jobs losses, others see this as a perfect opportunity to nurture an economy that is completely human-based.

Workers can spend anywhere from 5 minutes to 40 hours a week going through simple tasks on a smartphone, making AI all over the world more intelligent and efficient. By building platforms and crowd sourcing a large supply of workers, the companies that train AI were smart to realize the data needed could be processed by anyone with steady access to the internet. From this developed companies like Clickwork, Neurala,

and Alegion Inc., which utilize "human taggers" to push AI education.

With over a million "clickworkers" signed up, thereʼs an estimated 100,000 people logged on at this very moment, sifting through droves of information and lending a human touch to robot training. "Staring at security cameras or an airport scanner, remote-controlling a robot, driving trucks up and down a mine did not exist as jobs until recently," says Massimiliano Versace, CEO of Neurala, "and will probably not exist as jobs occupying a full-time human as they are today. Humans were created to do much more complicated and elevated tasks than watching videos 24/7."

On Body and Soul’ by eminent Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi receives its U.S. premier on November 12th at the prestigious American Film Institute Fest in Los Angeles, before being made available from February on streaming service Netflix. Hungary’s Oscar entry for Best Foreign-Language Film in 2018 will be the first Hungarian feature to be released on Netflix. Budapest-born Enyedi has already been awarded the Berlinale, the FIPRESCI Prize and, a first for a Hungarian and a woman, the Sydney Film Prize.

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New Hungarian film Aurora Borealis now screens in Budapest Becoming a mother is a miraculous time in a woman’s life. However, there are certain scenarios when the arrival of a newcomer is not entirely wonderful news. The new motion picture by eminent Hungarian director Márta Mészáros, Aurora Borealis, tells a touching tale, taking viewers back in time in Hungary and leaving them reaching for the Kleenex.

The story has two timelines. One transports viewers back to a western Hungarian village in 1953, where a descendant of an aristocratic family, Ákos, falls for a village girl, Mari. They try to escape to Austria together, but unfortunately with no success, and after being harassed by soldiers, Mari has to start a new life alone and pregnant in occupied Vienna. The other storyline is in the present, unfolding the events through the recollections of old Mari, now a pensioner living in her old village.

One day she gets a letter from Russia and falls into a coma. Her daughter Olga, a lawyer living alone in Vienna, comes back to care for her. Suspecting something about her mother’s past isn’t quite right, she starts investigating. This is only a fraction of the story, as anything else would be a major spoiler. However, even the trailer foretells that Olga’s dad might not be who she thinks after all.

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US soccer star Hope Solo accuses Sepp Blatter of sexual harassment

Former US goalkeeper Hope Solo has said ex-FIFA boss Sepp Blatter groped her backside during the 2013 Ballon dʼOr ceremony. Sexual harassment wasnʼt just a problem in Hollywood but in womenʼs football as well, she said. Hope Solo, a star goalkeeper and former member of the US football team, accusedformer FIFA President Sepp Blatterof sexually harassing her, in an interview published on Friday. "Sepp Blatter grabbed my ass, it was a few years ago at the Ballon dʼOr ceremony just before I got on stage," Solo told Portuguese newspaper Expresso.

Rafael Nadal pulls out with a knee injury

Rafael Nadal has confirmed that he will pull out of the ATP World Tour Finals. The world number one has been dealing with a knee injury and had to pull out of a tournament in November. After losing to Belgian David Goffin 7-6 (5), 6-7, 6-4 in his first match at the ATP World Tour Finals in London on Monday, menʼs world number one Rafael Nadal said he was pulling out of the tournament with a knee injury. "My season is finished," the Spaniard told reporters after the match. "My commitment was to try. Iʼve missed this event too many times in my career."

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Athletics doping: IOC confident over Russia doping reform plans International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach believes Russia will resolve its doping issues and field athletes at next yearʼs Rio Games.

Russia was provisionally suspendedfrom world athletics after an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report alleged "state-sponsored doping". Bach met with his Russian Olympic Committee counterpart Alexander Zhukov to discuss the report. He said he was "confident" in the measures put forward by the ROC. Council members of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Friday voted 22-1 in favour of Russia being banned. As it stands, Russian athletes may not enter international competitions, including the World Athletic Series and Rio Olympics, which begin on 5 August next year.

Russia will also not be entitled to host the 2016 World Race Walking Cup in Cheboksary and the 2016 World Junior Championships in Kazan. "We are confident that the initiatives being proposed by the ROC, with the responsible international organisations - Wada and the IAAF - will ensure compliance as soon as possible in order to provide participation of the clean Russian athletes at the Olympic Games," said IOC president Bach.

Germany coach Joachim Löw to experiment against England Joachim Löw said he is eager to experiment with his Germany team in its final two friendlies in 2017

The Germany head coach admitted he has some idea of what his squad will look like but expects some tough choices.

Speaking at a press conference in Berlin on Thursday, Germany coach Joachim Löw said he wanted to get a good look at some of his players in his sideʼs final two international matches of the year, the first of which is a friendly against England at Wembley Stadium on Friday. "We want to play well and a result is an important issue," Löw said. "But I want to experiment a bit. We still have a few games to prepare until the World Cup." Löw hasrecalled Mario Götze and Ilkay Gündogan, who were in Germanyʼs World Cup

squad and have not played for the national team in a year, as well as Sami Khedira and Mesut Özil for Fridayʼs friendly against England, and the one against France next week. He also called in defender Marcel Halstenberg into his side and said he would give the Leipzig left back his first start against England.

"I am planning with him from the start. I took Marcel Halstenberg with us for that reason. He has been playing very well at Leipzig. He is good in the air, a strong physical player," Löw said.

Jerome Boateng: We absolutely want to defend our World Cup title Jerome Boateng has given a German newspaper a frank assessment of his injuries, a pivotal night in Paris and the challenge facing Germany in Russia. The Bayern Munich man says heʼs not been at his best for five years.

Boateng has been a regular in Bayern Munichʼs starting line-up since joining from Manchester City in 2011, but of late has had to endure one of the most testing periods of his professional career. Since the start of the 2016/17 campaign, the 68-cap German internationalʼs list of injuries reads like a whatʼs

what of footballing ailments. "Youʼve got to be careful," warned Boateng when discussing the physical toll modern footballers have to cope with, both on and off the pitch with Süddesutsche Zeitung. "Even off the pitch, there are constant demands. We know theyʼre important, but turning off is becoming increasingly more difficult." The Berlin native has only made 30 appearances in all competitions for the German record titleholders since the start of last season, but is hoping heʼll reap the long-term benefits of a patient approach to recovery.