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Indiaʼs top court decriminalizes adultery A colonial-era law that punished adultery with jail time was ruled unconstitutional on Thursday by Indiaʼs top court. The law was in place for more than a century and dictated that any man who slept with a married woman, without her husbandʼs permission, could go to prison for up to 5 years. "Thinking of adultery from a point of view of criminality is a retrograde step," the five-judge bench of the Supreme Court said in what was a unanimous decision. The law was challenged in front of the court on the grounds that it was arbitrary and discriminated women, as they could not file a complaint or be held liable under the archaic law. ʼMan is the seducerʼ Government lawyers had argued that overturning the law threatened the institution of marriage, and caused harm to children and families. But the 158-year-old law deprived women of dignity and individual choice and gave "license to the husband to use women as a chattel," the court retorted.
Students at German Catholic school protest for gay teacher Around 600 pupils protested Thursday against their schoolʼs decision not to hire a gay teacher at the Gymnasium Mariengarden, a private high school in the town of Borken in western Germany. The students assembled to form a rainbow out of colored balloons alongside a banner that read, "Mariengarden is colorful." The man had completed his teacher training at the Catholic school and subsequently been offered a job. However, when he told the school principal that he intended to marry his male partner, his offer of employment was withdrawn. Read more: Opinion: Catholic Church must change Church officials responsible for the administration of the school said Wednesday that, "The plan to marry contravenes the churchʼs position on matrimony and family."
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WikiLeaks names new editor-in-chief as Julian Assange sits in Ecuadorian Embassy Julian Assange has named Kristinn Hrafnsson as WikiLeaksʼ new editor-in-chief
Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Ford testifies before Senate hearing Christine Blasey Ford fought back tears on Thursday as she told a Senate committee about an alleged sexual assault by President Donald TrumpʼsSupreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were both teenagers in the 1980s. Ford said Kavanaugh locked her in a bedroom during a social gathering and pinned her to the bed. "Brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes. He was having a hard time because he was inebriated… I believed he was going to rape me." The 51-year-old said she was "terrified," but wanted to share her experience "because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school."
Slovakia police arrest suspects in journalist Jan Kuciakʼs killing Assange remains in the Ecuadorian embassy in London where for the last six months he has only been able to communicate with his lawyers. WikiLeaks on Wednesday announced Icelandic investigative journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson would take over from founder Julian Assange as editor-in-chief. Assange will continue to be the publisher of WikiLeaks, a not-for-profit organization that publishes classified documents provided by anonymous sources. WikiLeaks said a new editor-in-chief had been appointed due to the "extraordinary circumstances" of Assange having been held in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London without any contact for six months aside from his lawyers. Hrafnsson was a spokesperson for WikiLeaks from 2010–2016, and has since overseen certain legal projects for WikiLeaks, the organization said. "I condemn the treatment of Julian Assange that leads to my new role," Hrafnsson said in a statement. "But I welcome the responsibility to secure the continuation of the important work based on WikiLeaks ideals." Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said Wednesday that
Ecuador and Britain are working on a legal solution for Assange to allow him to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in "the medium term." Moreno told The Associated Press news agency that Assangeʼs lawyers were aware of the negotiations, but declined to provide further information due to the sensitivity of the case. Ecuador granted Australian-born Assange asylum in August 2012 after he sought refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault and rape, which he denied. Assange said Sweden would eventually extradite him to the United States to face prosecution for WikiLeaksʼ publication of leaked classified military and diplomatic documents. AlthoughSweden dropped the case in May 2017, Assange could still be arrested by UK authorities for breaching the conditions of his bail agreement. Earlier this year, Ecuador said it had granted Assange citizenship.
Daniel Lipsic, a lawyer representing the families ofJan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova, said suspects were arrested early on Thursday, with local media reporting one or more arrests. Slovak police said on its Facebook page it had detained "persons suspected of violent crime and was carrying out home searches," but did not say in which case. Prime Minister Peter Pellegriniwrote on Facebook that: "Police have arrested the suspects in the murder of two innocent young people," adding that the ongoing investigation was "a priority" for his government.
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Israel nudges Damascus to reopen border crossing While Israel is ready to reopen theQuneitracrossing with Syria, any resumption of operations at the border facility depends on Syria, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday. "We are ready to open the crossing as it was before and now the ball is in Syriaʼs court," Lieberman said during a tour of the crossing on Thursday. "In terms of the ability to operate the crossing, both from a security and administrative point of view, everything is ready." Lieberman also reiterated Israelʼs policy of nonintervention in the Syrian civil war. Israel will also ensure compliance with the nonmilitarized buffer zone between the Israelicontrolled Golan Heights and Syria established in 1974 after the Arab-Israeli War a year earlier, the minister said. The Quneitra crossing lies in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and was closed in 2014. The UN peacekeeping force UNDOF restarted patrols in the Quneitra area this August after the Syrian government retook the town of Quneitra from rebels.
Watergate alum: Firing Rod Rosenstein would be criminal It is hard to say what is exactly going on here. One part of me thinks, this whole thing about Rod Rosenstein was just a setup to try and deflect attention away from the Kavanaugh hearings right now, which is what Trumpʼs normal pattern is: to try to do something to get peopleʼs attention in a different direction. So, I am not sure how serious he is about this and whether this was just a deflection from Kavanaugh or whether he really is serious about getting rid of Rosenstein. Part of me believes that this thing is all a setup by Trump to begin with. The notion that Rosenstein was seriously talking about the 25th Amendment as to Trump is kind of ridiculous. The 25th Amendment is really kind of designed for the Woodrow Wilson situation, where he was basically non compos mentis and his wife was acting as president and he just had no ability to act as president. The whole process of removing somebody with the 25th Amendment is extremely complex. I think the whole idea that this was something that Rosenstein seriously thought about is just ridiculous and even the idea about taping Trump, I think, was more likely in jest. 2
Ryanair seeks soft landing as strikes continue The Irish low-cost carrier has in 2018 become synonymous with strikes
The Irish low-cost carrier has in 2018 become synonymous with strikes. While the airline has managed to operate the overwhelming majority of its flights, reputational damage has been unavoidable. n the not-too-distant past, there were always a few people wary of booking Ryanair flights for rather epicurean reasons. An insufficiently fluffy cushion, too little leg room, or simply the general sense that their time in the air was not attended to with the kind of red-carpet treatment they felt they deserved. Ryanair made a virtue of not caring about such quibbles. Led by their incorrigible CEO Michael OʼLeary, the airline traded on their rough-and-ready image, confident that their core qualities of providing reliable, on-time, cheap
Bellingcat identifies Skripal poisoning suspect as Russian colonel The real identity of one of the suspects in the nerve agent attack on former Russian spySergei Skripal and his daughteris Anatoliy Chepiga, a highly-decorated colonel of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU, the investigative group Bellingcat said on Wednesday. Bellingcat claimed the colonelʼs passport name was Ruslan Boshirov, one of thetwo suspects charged by British prosecutors with attempted murderfor the Novichok poisoning of the Skripals in the southern English city of Salisbury in March. The other suspect was identified by prosecutors as Alexander Petrov. The British government
Man arrested for running after plane at Dublin Airport An Irish man was arrested at Dublin Airport on Thursday after he ran behind a taxiing plane and shouted at the pilot to wait. Witnesses said the 23-year-old, who arrived late at the departure gate, dashed out of the terminal building and ran after the Ryanair plane, which was departing for Amsterdam. The airport said the man was "agitated" when airline staff told him he was too late for his flight. He then "broke through a door and made his way onto the tarmac, trying to flag the aircraft down," the airport said. The man was heard shouting "Wait" to the pilot before he was pinned to the ground by the airport staff. He was later handed over to Irish police and taken to a Dublin police station. A Dublin court has charged him with criminal damage to a door lock. He was released on his own bond of €200 ($234) and ordered to appear at the court again on November 8, Irish broadcaster RTE reported.
flights to and from multiple destinationsacross Europe would make them the continentʼs dominant airline. It turned out that the vast majority of flyers didnʼt really care about being pampered. What really mattered was that Ryanair got you from A to B cheaply, on time and perhaps most crucially of all, on flights that were not going to be cancelled. How things have changed. Now, travelers across Europe are wary of booking Ryanair flights for the very opposite reasons for which they used to book in their droves. knows both their real identities, Reuters news agency reported, citing sources close to the investigation. The two Russian men have denied the accusations, sayingthey visited Salisbury as touriststo see its cathedral. Speaking on the Russian state-funded RT channel, the duo said they work in the nutritional supplements business. The UK says the two had approval from the highest authorities in Russia, a charge that Moscow has rejected.
How does Germany choose its judges? Always the best pick? Judges must be "no more than the mouth that pronounces the words of the law, mere passive beings, inca-
pable of moderating either its force or rigour," said the French enlightenment political philosopher, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755). The initiator of the separation of powers assigned the third branch of government – the judiciary - a clearly defined role of servitude. More than 250 years later, the reality is far different. Even in Germany, respected around the world for its adherence to the rule of law, the judiciaryʼs independence has come under scrutiny in the last several years. Jurisprudence has been accused of being politics by other means. Germanyʼs more than 20,000 judges are not "bound by directives." Germanyʼs federal states - normally their respective justice ministries choose judges. Federal judges are selected on a "best choice" principle, as set forth by the constitution. In practice, judge selection is as transparent as a black hole.
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Emmanuel Macronʼs ʼcareer adviceʼ lands Frenchman job A video of French President Emmanuel Macron telling a young unemployed man to simply "cross the road" to find a job went viral earlier this month. The man, Jonathan Jahan, has now landed a position as a coach driver. An unemployed Frenchman told by French President Emmanuel Macron that he needed to merely "cross the road" to find a jobhas landed a position after a video of their outspoken exchange made the rounds online earlier this month. Ultimately, 25-year-old Jonathan Jahan didnʼt need to look in Parisʼ Montparnasse district to find work. But a temporary employment agency contacted him with an offer to work as a coach driver. Jahan, who studied horticulture but was unable to find work for months, accepted the offer. "Iʼm happy because Iʼm going to work in something I love," he told French broadcaster BFM TV, adding
Turkeyʼs economic woes power Balkan reboot Turkey has long considered theWestern Balkanspart of its sphere of influence. The Ottoman Empire encompassed Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo up to 1918. A century on from theOttomansʼ demise, Turkey is again looking covetously at the region. Turkeyʼs share in Serbiaʼs foreign trade is only about 3.5 percent, but it has crept almost without notice into Serbiaʼs top 10 trading partners and Kosovoʼs top three. Turkish construction companies, for example, are building and will operate 20 power plants in Serbia. Emerging TurkishSerbian economic relations are indeed likely to be focused on energy, the showpiece being theTurk Stream gas pipeline led by Russian energy giant Gazprom . The Western Balkans makes up only a fraction of Turkeyʼs foreign trade, compared with trade with the European Union of around €145 billion ($165 billion). But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently spoke of increasing Turkish investments in Serbia to $5 billion in the longer term, from around €1.7 billion in 2017.
that he had turned down 20 other job and interview offers. While footage of the exchange appeared to have worked out well for Jahan, the same cannot be said for Macron. The president was chided for showing a callous attitude towards the young jobseeker. Several media outlets also questioned whether Macron was right to underline the mismatch betweenFranceʼs 9 percent unemployment rateand the thousands of unfilled job vacancies, particularly in the hospitality sector. In the weeks since, the 40-year-old has seenapproval ratings plummet to just 30 percent— the lowest since his election to the French presidency last May.
Preparing for Africaʼs population boom
Africaʼs population is growing rapidlyand is set to double by 2050. A recent study by the Gates Foundation advises more birth control. In Ethiopia, the change of heart has already begun. Currently 1.4 billion people live on the African continent. In 32 years this number is expected to double.But if economic growth doesnʼt keep up with the increasing population, rates of poverty are also expected to rise.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation saw this trend as an opportunity topublish a new Goalkeepers study as a catalyst for
action. But the forecasts are rather bleak: by 2050, approximately 40 percent of the worldʼs extremely poor are expected to live in two African countries — Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Nigeria is currently home to around 190 million people. Every woman gives birth to approximately five children. And this has repercussions. "At the moment, things look pretty bad in Nigeria," Farouk Jega, the director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundationʼs Nigerian office, told.
Angela Merkelʼs CDU wins over migrant voters in Germany Chancellor Angela Merkelʼs conservative bloc has become the most popular party amongGerman citizens with migratory backgrounds, according to a report published on Thursday. The Union bloc — made up of the Christian Democrats and their Bavarian sister-party, the Christian Social Union — now enjoys more then 43 percent of support among all migrant groups. Meanwhile, only one-in-four migrants still favorthe Social Democrats (SPD), down by a staggering 15 percentage points in just two years. Turkish-Germans in particular appear to have abandoned the centerleft party, with most switching to the conservative bloc.
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Trade frictions could cause ʼmajor recession in Germanyʼ Any escalation of trade friction involving the United Statescould cause a major recession in Germany and the whole of the European Union, Germanyʼs leading economic institutes warned Thursday while presenting their latest outlook. The think tanks said US President Donald Trumpʼs threat to impose higher tariffs on car imports from the European Union would, if enacted, cost a lot of jobs and harm productivity and prosperity particularly in Germany. In Germany, one in three jobs depends on exports, making the nation particularly vulnerableif hit by additional US tariffs on car imports, given the large size of the automotive sector. Tensions rose last month after the US president rejected an offer from Brussels to eliminate auto tariffs altogether. Several dangers building The institutes also cited currency crises in Turkey and Argentina and the possibility of Britain leaving the EU without a deal as economic threats to Germany. The think tanks cut their 2018 GDP growth forecast to 1.7 percent from a previous estimate of 2.2 percent, and said they expect the economy in Europeʼs powerhouse to expand by 1.9 percent next year. "Demand from abroad has weakened, and at the same time companiesare having increasing difficulty finding enough workers for their production," Roland Döhrn of the Essen-based institute RWI said in a statement.
German photography trade fair transforms itself into an imaging marketplace "Photokina isnʼt what it used to be," some visitors tell the organizers of the biennial photography trade fair in the western German city of Cologne, which opened again on Wednesday. But Katharina Hamma, Managing Director of the Kölnmesse exhibition hall, told DW that the cynical comment was actually positive proof that the long-established event is evolving, The photography event, which was first held in 1950, has long since become a marketplace for all kinds of imaging technology, and its slogan, "Imaging unlimited," sums up its latest strategy. For many years, Photokina suffered from a decline in exhibitors as the whole photography sector dwindled. A huge effort went into attracting interest from related sectors to expand the trade fairʼs appeal. This year, for the first time, Chinese telecommunications and smartphone group Huawei and the German headphone and audio specialist Sennheiser have their own booths. 4
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche to quit in 2019 The chief executive of German carmaker Daimler, Dieter Zetsche, will resign from his post in May 2019, the Stuttgart-based company has announced. His contract would have expired in December of next year. Following more than 13 years at the helm of Daimler, Dieter Zetsche is expected to quit in May 2019, the company said Wednesday. He will be succeeded by the current head of development at the group, Ola Kaellenius, a 49year-old Swede. Following a two-year absence, Zetsche is then expected to take over as head of the firmʼs supervisory board from Manfred Bischoff whose tenure ends in 2021. The news about Zetscheʼs resignation roughly half a year before his contract would have expired comes as the car and truck
Italy budget to include basic income Economy Minister Giovanni Tria announced Wednesday that Italyʼs 2019 budget would comprise a basic income for poor people and a lower retirement age. The measures were sought by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, which is in the ruling coalitionwith the right-wing League. The party had threatened not to vote for the budget unless its demands were met.Tria, who isnʼt affiliated with either party, is under pressure to come up with a draft budget that funds key campaign pledges made by the ruling parties whileupholding Italyʼs financial commitmentsto the European Union. The draft is due to be presented Thursday. In a speech to a conference in Rome, the economy ministerwarned there was a need for shrewd policyto allay market concerns and avert a clash with the European Commission. "We are working on a mix of policies that show everyone they should have confidence in Italy, not only in our public finances but in our economic growth," Tria said. "We have to give a sign to the financial markets, to those who lend us money."
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German consumers unfazed by trade worries The mood among German consumers is improving again heading into October, a regular survey published Thursday by German pollsters GfK revealed. The groupʼs forward-looking barometer for Octoberregistered a consumer confidence uptick of 0.1 points to 10.6 points. A look at the different elements of the survey showed peopleʼs view of the economic outlook and expectations for their own income in the months ahead saw strong increases. Unemployment is at record lows since the countryʼs reunification in 1990, boosting the publicʼs assessment of their own financial prospects. Big-ticket items harder to sell Respondents were slightly less open to making major purchases, although the reading remained "at a high level," GfK noted. Private consumption is proving itself as an important pillar of economic developments in Germany," the group said.
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makeris undergoing a period of rapid change and restructuring. Daimler and the wider German car industry is experiencing a delicate period as it suffers the fallout from the dieselgate emissions cheating scandal. European carmakers must adapt to new, tougher emissions rules, while bans on older diesel vehicles are looming in many German cities. Daimler has had to recall some 774,000 vehicles this year to undo illegal defeat devices designed to conceal high levels of harmful emissions from regulatorsʼ tests.
US Fed hikes interest rates for a third time this year
The American central bank has raised the benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point, but showed no indication it would be more aggressive in monetary tightening. It also left its outlook for the coming years unchanged. In a policy statement released on Wednesday, the US Fed rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said it would lift the benchmark overnight lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of 2.00 percent to 2.25 percent. Moreover, the central bank foresees another rate hike in December and three more next year, to be followed by another increase in 2020. That would put the benchmark rate at 3.4 percent in two years — roughly half a percentage point above its estimated "neutral" rate of interest that neither stimulates nor restricts the economy. Read more: US growth revised up on investment and export spurt In its closely watched statement, the FOMC removed a longstanding phrase which described the Fedʼs rate stance as providing stimulus to the economy.
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Bill Cosby sentenced to at least 3 years in prison He must now register as a sex offender and attend counseling
The ex-comedian was handed a three to 10-year prison sentence for drugging and assaulting a woman in 2004. DisgracedUS comedian Bill Cosby, 81, was sentenced to at least three years in prison on Tuesday. He was also branded a "sexually violent predator" by a Pennsylvania judge for assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia mansion 14 years ago. "It is time for justice. Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The time has come," Judge Steven OʼNeill said. The judge then quoted from victim Andrea Constandʼs statement to the court, saying that Cosby had taken her "beautiful,
young spirit and crushed it." He then handed Cosby a prison sentence of three to 10 years, the first such celebrity sentencing of the #MeToo era. Cosby must also pay $25,000 in fines (€21,244), undergo regular therapy and register as a sex offender. The latter requires him to notify schools, law enforcement and Constand of any changes in address. Cosby was also denied bail by the judge, meaning he would head immediately to prison after leaving the court house.
ʼBalloonʼ depicts miraculous escape from the GDR n 1979, the Iron Curtain was virtually impenetrable. Rarely did anyone from East Germany manage to flee west. But a new film by Michael Bully Herbig — actor and director of German blockbuster spoof comedies including Manituʼs Shoe and Dreamship Surprise: Period 1 — tells the true story of two East German families who made a spectacular and risky escape attempt a decade before the Berlin War fell. On September 16, 1979, the Strelzyk and the Wetzel families from the southeastern state of Thuringia flew to freedom in homemade hot air balloons: four adults and four children wedged in a basket measuring two square meters, and towering 30 meters above them the balloon made of 1,245 square meters of material. For half-an-hour at night, the gondola carried the families to their destination in West Germanyʼs Bavaria, 18 kilometers from their starting point in communist East Germany.
World Press Photo exhibition now open in Budapest
The film that almost never was: Terry Gilliamʼs Don Quixote finally opens By far the most exciting thing about the film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which opens today in theaters across Germany and different European countries, is its epic production history that began in 1989. But Terry Gilliamʼs film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, is ultimately a disappointment — at least artistically. After 29 years of development, endless shoots, prolonged interruptions, completely new casts, and fall outs with various producers, the film is, however, finally hitting the big screen. Thatʼs the good news. Gilliamʼs decades-long journey to make a film that was doomed to never make it to the cinema was already im-
mortalized in Lost in La Mancha, a 2002 documentary that poked fun at the directorʼs failing attempt to get his pet project off the ground. But 16 years later, it can be said that the documentaryʼs directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe spoke too soon, with the revered director of Brazil and 12 Mon‐ keys doggedly completing the film he always believed would be made. "I just kept going on and on," he told the Guardian before its Cannes premiere in May. "Iʼve never been able to explain why I was so determined, obsessed to make it. After a point I realized that if youʼre going to do Quixote youʼve got to become Quixote. Youʼve got to have ups and downs."
A heartwarming hug, exploited sex workers and all of the chaos and calamity caused by an increasing terrorist attacks and conflict. The annual World Press Photo travelling exhibition once again portrays milestones from the past year through the best works of photojournalism. The exhibition is on view until October 23rd at the Hungarian National Museum. If you just visit one show in Budapest this autumn, it should be this one.
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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.
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Tiger Woods to face Francesco Molinari in opening fourballs
Americans Tiger Woods and Patrick Reed will face Europeʼs Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood in Fridayʼs opening fourballs at the Ryder Cup in France. US Open and and US PGA Champion Brooks Koepka and Tony Finau will play Justin Rose and Jon Rahm in the opening match. Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler face Rory McIlroy and Thorbjorn Olesen, while Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas play Paul Casey and Tyrrell Hatton. The US team is aiming to win on foreign soil for the first time in 25 years.
Andy Murray beats David Goffin to reach Shenzhen Open quarterfinals
Britainʼs Andy Murray beat world number 11 David Goffin - his highestranked opponent since returning from hip surgery - to reach the Shenzhen Open quarter-finals. Scot Murray, 31, won 6-3 6-4 against the Belgian top seed in China. Former world number one Murray, now ranked 311th in the world, returned in June after almost a year out. He will now face Spanish fifth seed Fernando Verdasco, who beat Murray at the US Open in August. Live scores, schedule and resultsGBʼs Norrie through to Shenzhen quarter-finals Murray took only 37 minutes to win the first set and was serving for the match at 5-2 in the second, only for Goffin to break back. 6
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.
Germany wins right to host UEFA Euro 2024 football championship This is to be the first time Germany will host the tournament since 1988
Germany has won the right to host the 2024 European Championship, beating Turkey in a vote by UEFAʼs Executive Committee. Thursdayʼs announcement was delayed by several minutes, but when UEFA President Alexander Ceferin finally stepped onto the stage at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, it came as little surprise that it was Germanyʼs name that he pulled out of the envelope. "The procedure was transparent, the vote was democratic. Every democratic decision is the right decision," Ceferin said. The announcement was met with broad smiles and
cheers from German Football Assocation (DFB) President Reinhard Grindel and the rest of his delegation. "I would like to thank the UEFA Executive Commitee for the unbelieveable trust," Grindel said. "I feel a sense of responsibility. We know what this tournament means. We will do everything in our power to live up to the expectations." Grindel was also quoted as saying Germany had won by a vote of 12-4 with one invalid ballot cast.
Cristiano Ronaldo: Juventus forward will miss one match after Champions League red card Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo will be available to play former club Manchester United next month after Uefa ruled he must serve only a one-match ban for his Champions League red card. The Portugal captain, 33, was sent off duringJuveʼs 2-0 win over Valencialast week after appearing to pull defender Jeison Murilloʼs hair. It was the first Champions League red card of Ronaldoʼs career. Juventus play
United in Group H at Old Trafford on 23 October. A three-match suspension would have seen Ronaldo also miss the return fixture in Turin on 7 November. He will definitely miss Juveʼs next Champions League game against Swiss club Young Boys on 2 October. Five-time Champions League winner Ronaldo - who joined Juve from Real Madrid for £99.2m in the summer - tried to latch onto a cross when he was blocked off by a tumbling Murillo.