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Brazil election runoff: Polls open, far-right Jair Bolsonaro favorite to win Voters are widely expected to pick the outspoken Bolsonaro whoʼs promised a strong hand to tackle endemic corruption. During the campaign, the ex-military man made sexist, racist and homophobic comments. Brazilʼs most polarized presidential election runoff in decades got underway on Sunday morning, and was predicted to see the worldʼs fourth largest democracy swing to the far-right. Polls opened at 8 a.m. local time (1100 UTC) for the countryʼs 143 million voters to choose betweenpopulist ex-army captain Jair Bolsonaroand his leftist challenger Fernando Haddad, a former mayor of Sao Paolo. Strong lead for farright contender Bolsonaro was predicted to secure 55 percent of the vote, against 45 percent support for Haddad, an opinion poll by Datafolha revealed on Saturday. A separate poll put Bolsonaroʼs support at 54 percent.
Germany accused of ʼmeddlingʼ over Eritreaʼs absent civil liberties Berlin has been accused of being "cynical" about progress made in Eritrea following its peace agreement with Ethiopia. Earlier this month, Germany criticized a lack of human rights reforms in the Horn of Africa country. Eritrea has told the Berlin government to "refrain from meddling" in regional affairs after the African countryʼs human rights record drew criticism in Germanyʼs parliament, the Bundestag. A statement posted on the Eritrean Ministry of Information website on Saturday described a speech earlier this month by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas as "appalling." Maasʼ comments centered onthe signing of a peace agreement in July between Ethiopia and Eritreato formally end the two neighboursʼ 1998-2000 war.
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Polish president seeks WWII reparations from Germany ahead of German-Polish summit Both governments are set to meet in Warsaw, where reparations could take center stage
A Polish parliamentary inquiry found Germany liable for additional WWII reparations, according to President Andrzej Duda. Germany still owes Poland World War II reparations, Polish President Andrzej Duda has said in an interview with German newspaper Bild am Sonntag. Duda told the newspaper that a parliamentary inquiry had investigated Polandʼs war damages and its preliminary results showed that the countryʼs wartime losses have not been properly compensated. "It is a question of truth and responsibility," he said. Dudaʼs comments directly contradict Germany, which has repeatedly said that the status of reparations was settled in the early 1950s. Read more: Poland, Greece team up on Nazi-era war reparations demands The call could become a sticking point when government representatives from Germany and Poland meet for consultations in Warsaw next week. Dudaʼs call echoed the remarks of the previous Polishpresident, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who in June said that his country needed to be compensated for the murder of
millions of people and the destruction of material goods that took place during Germanyʼs invasion and occupation of Poland during the war. Dudaʼs interview follows the Polish presidentʼs meeting with German President Frank Walter Steinmeier in Berlin earlier this week. Both discussed a joint commemoration to mark the 80th anniversary of the beginning of World War II in September. Read more: Opinion: Is Polandʼs demand for war reparations a threat to German-Polish relations? During his visit, Duda harshly criticized the far-right Alternative for Germany party and its attacks against Germanyʼs postwar culture of remembrance. "The fact that, until now, no German party has questioned Germanyʼs guilt has made the great reconciliation process between Poland and Germany possible," he said. "We owe our good relationship to the fact that we think about the past and that it represents a warning for us."
Georgia votes for president Polls opened in the country of Georgia on Sunday morning to elect the countryʼs next president, widely being considered a referendum on the unpopular ruling party. The hotly contested race has pitted former foreign minister Salome Zurabishvili, supported by the ruling Georgian Dream party, against opposition leader Grigol Vashadze, also an exforeign minister. Zurabishvili and Vashadze are among 25 candidates vying to win the largely ceremonial role. Incumbent Giorgi Margvelashvili is not running. The two leading candidates have an almost equal chance of being elected, but neither is expected to get the necessary 50 percent plus one vote to win in the first round, according to opinion polls published ahead of the vote. A runoff between the top two candidates is to be held by December 1. At 12 p.m. local time (0800 UTC), turnout stood at just 16 percent, the central election commission said.
Helicopter crashes near Leicester Cityʼs King Power Stadium A helicopter belonging to Leicester Cityʼs owner has crashed in the stadium grounds of the British football club. Fans lay flowers outside the clubʼs stadium, but there has been no official statement on who was on board. Fans and members of the public laid bouquets outside Leicester Cityʼs stadium, the morning after a helicopter belonging to the football clubʼs Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, crashed in the stadium grounds.
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Polio — Still a danger despite many victories Polio is nearly eradicated — but not quite. Some countries continue to battle the disease. DW reviews the situation on the birthday of Jonas Salk, the US virologist who developed one of the first successful vaccines. The only effective protection against poliomyelitis, or polio for short, is vaccination. It is also the only way to eradicate the virus. But itʼs not that simple. "The original goal was to eradicate poliomyelitis by the year 2000," says Sabine Diedrich of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin. "Then it shifted further and further away." Next, there was a five-year plan. The plan ran from 2013 to 2018, and according to the virologist, "During this period we were supposed to manage finally to eradicate polio." But, Diedrich says, even that is still a very last, small step in the future.
Man carrying large snake walks through Germanyʼs Dusseldorf train station
A man in his mid-30s has become somewhat of an attraction at Dusseldorfʼs central train station as he walked around with a boa constrictor on his shoulders. Police have confiscated the reptile. On Saturday, a 36-year-old man strolled through Dusseldorfʼs central train station with a 1.8-meter-long (5.9-foot-long) boa constrictor around his neck. The sight of the man with a large snake on his shoulders caused excitement among people at the station. Police later confiscated the reptile with the help of a fire department animal expert. News Man carrying large snake walks through Germanyʼs Dusseldorf train station Police said the man could not prove he was the owner of the snake. Also, carrying a snake in public is not considered appropriate. Authorities will hand the boa constrictor over to a zoo on Sunday. Until then, it will stay with the fire department. The boa constrictor, also known as the red-tailed boa or the common boa, is a large, nonvenomous snake that is usually kept and bred in captivity. It is often found in tropical North, Central and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean. 2
Modi, Abe to discuss free trade amid Trumpʼs protectionism India-Japan summit:
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed a "special strategic and global partnership" with Japan, the second-largest economy in Asia. Japan is aiming to expand free trade relations amid USʼ protectionist policies. The Indian leader arrived in Japan on Saturday on a two-day official visit and was set to hold talks with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe. Abe is set to host a luncheon for Narendra Modi on Sunday at a resort area near Mount Fuji. Modi, who has met with Abe 12 times since becoming prime minister in 2014, will attend the 13th IndiaJapan annual summit on October 28 and 29. Heʼll then have an official meeting with Abe on Monday, after
Man carrying large snake walks through Germanyʼs Dusseldorf train station A man in his mid-30s has become somewhat of an attraction at Dusseldorfʼs central train station as he walked around with a boa constrictor on his shoulders. Police have confiscated the reptile. On Saturday, a 36-year-old man strolled through Dusseldorfʼs central train station with a 1.8-meter-long (5.9foot-long) boa constrictor around his neck. The sight of the man with a large snake on his shoulders caused excitement among people at the station. Police later confiscated the reptile with the help of a fire department animal expert. News Man carrying large snake walks through Germanyʼs Dusseldorf
which the two leaders will issue a joint statement. Trade and security will be high on the summit agenda and during the talks between Abe and Modi. "The India-Japan partnership has been fundamentally transformed and it has been strengthened as a ʼspecial strategic and global partnership,ʼ" Modi told Japanʼs Kyodo news agency. "There are no negatives but only opportunities in this relationship which are waiting to be seized," he added. train station Police said the man could not prove he was the owner of the snake. Also, carrying a snake in public is not considered appropriate. Authorities will hand the boa constrictor over to a zoo on Sunday. Until then, it will stay with the fire department. The boa constrictor, also known as the redtailed boa or the common boa, is a large, nonvenomous snake that is usually kept and bred in captivity. It is often found in tropical North, Central and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean.
How a ʼhardʼ Brexit might affect the arts and culture In Scotland, more precisely on the stage of the "Leith Theatre" in Edinburgh, the curtain rises on November 10 for The Last Days of Mankind (see
Brussels Airport baggage handlersʼ strike affects travel for thousands A strike by one of Zaventem International Airportʼs baggage handling partners has resulted in widespread flight disruptions. This weekend is traditionally busy for air travel because of several holidays in Europe. Thousands of airline passengers have been affected by an ongoing baggage handlersʼ strike at Brussels Airport. The strike, by workers employed by Aviapartner, began on Thursday and is expected to continue until 6:00 a.m. Sunday morning (0500 UTC). The strike comes during a popular weekend for air travel. It is the end of a school holiday in neighboring Netherlands and the start of the All Saintsʼ festival in Belgium. Some 70,000 travelers were expected at the airport on Saturday, and 74,000 on Sunday. Aviapartner workers downed tools — described as "spontaneous" action by the airport — over demands for higher staffing levels. Airlines affected include Aer Lingus, British Airways, El Al, Ethiopian Airlines, Etihad Airways, FlyEgypt, Royal Air Maroc, Ryanair and Turkish Airlines. Management was holding talks with union delegates in an effort to resolve the dispute on Saturday. A previous meeting ended without any agreement, according to the Belga news agency.
photo). The play by Karl Kraus has seldom been more topical. The Austrian wrote his drama between 1915 and 1922 as a "tragedy in five acts," in which he addressed the inhumanity and absurdity of war. The play shows where political conflict can lead. Conflicted is also an apt description for the state of affairs between the European Commission and the British government. Negotiations over a Brexit deal are stagnating. Will it be possible to reasonably sort out the EuropeanBritish relationship for the period after the official withdrawal date of March 29, 2019? Thereʼs reason to be skeptical. The German Cultural Council has called it a "mess," especially since cultural issues have not yet been negotiated at all. "We have grounds for being nervous," Olaf Zimmermann, the Councilʼs managing director, told Deutsche Welle. "The less regulated it is, the more difficult it becomes for everyone."
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Syria summit: Chancellor Angela Merkel calls for free elections alongside Russia, Turkey, France The German chancellor demanded free elections in four-way talks in Turkey on the possibility of peace in Syria. Merkel and the leaders of France, Russia and Turkey are hoping to capitalize on a shaky ceasefire agreement. German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with the leaders of Turkey, Russia and France in Istanbul on Saturday to try and find common ground on the future of Syria. After meeting with the leaders, Merkel called for a political process to end the conflict under the auspices of the United Nations, with the ultimate goal of free elections. "At the end of this political process, there must be free elections to which all Syrians have access —
including the diaspora," Merkel told a news conference. New constitution for Syria Her comments were echoed in a joint statement issued by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the other three leaders. "We have called for the process of forming a constitutional committee to be finalized as soon as possible," Erdogan said a joint press conference. "Our desire is it is formed by the end of this year."
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Angela Merkelʼs next big test: The Hesse regional election
Police say a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of a theme park in western Germany was a false alarm. A Halloween-themed event attended by thousands of people was disrupted. An amusement park near the German city of Bottrop was evacuated on Friday evening due to an alleged bomb threat. Some 11,000 people had to leave the Movie Park Germany premises, located in the western state of North RhineWestphalia, following what turned out to be a false alarm. Movie Park is a seasonal amusement park that centers on famous films. On Friday, the park was celebrating a multi-day Halloween special, which included horror movie screenings, haunted houses, musical entertainment, rides and a childrenʼs Halloween section. Read more: German police face off with environmentalists on way to Hambacher Forest protest At 5:15 p.m. local time (1515 UTC), the park received a call from an unknown individual warning about a bomb. Police arrived at the scene and after clearing several of the rides, eventually had to empty out the entire park. Authorities said visitors exited the premises calmly and without incident. Theyʼve now launched an investigation.
Itʼs no secret that regional elections in Germany are about not just local politicians and policies, but the national government as well. Thatʼs especially true of Sundayʼs vote in the central German state of Hesse and Angela Merkelʼsnational coalition of conservatives and Social Democrats. Both sides have been dramatically losing support, and hardly a week goes by without pundits pointing out that their so-called grand coalitionno longer
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commands a popular majority. Indeed, a consensus is emerging thatthe era of big-tent parties capable of attracting 40 percent of the vote and more is swiftly coming to an end. Hesse is, in essence, an opportunity for Merkel to show that her conservative CDU party and her governing coalition arenʼt as sickly as many of the punditsʼ diagnoses suggest. But for that to happen, she needs a number of factors to work in her partyʼs favor.
ʼRome Says Enough!ʼ: Thousands protest cityʼs decline Romans are counting on their mayor to resign as the city falls into a steep decline in both safety and public services. Besides its crumbling infrastructure, the city is also reeling from the brutal murder of a teenager. Some 8,000 Romans took to the streets of the Italian capital on Saturday to protest the "decline" of their city under Mayor Virginia Raggi. They were also protesting a rise in crime highlighted by the recent rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl.
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You donʼt have to be a psycho to be CEO The American CEO is perhaps the most iconic creature of the modern business world. Thrusting, eccentric, disruptive captains of finance they may be, but these guys and gals are not always the easiest to get on with. A US-Finn joint national and technically no longer a CEO, Linus Torvalds, known as Linuxʼs "benevolent dictator for life," returned to oversee his Open Source project this week following a self-imposed break to "get some assistance on how to understand peopleʼs emotions and respond appropriately." Torvalds, who has a reputation for being rude to other members of the community, said at the time he wanted to address his "flippant" actions and proclivity for personal attacks. His story is one that most boardrooms in the US will have seen at some point in time. Enron, BP, Goldman Sachs, Philip Morris. Fraud, tax evasion, toxic dumping, safety violations, bid rigging and overbilling. About 3 percent of CEOs assessed in a management study scored in the psychopath range. In the general population its just above 1 percent. These are not primary psychopaths like Jeffrey Daumer, but powerful people whoʼve allowed their biologically inherited empathy traits to dry up.
Supermarket price wars leave UK food suppliers close to bankruptcy If one of the worldʼs biggest suppliers of packaged food struggles to win a meaningful price increase from Britainʼs largest supermarket chain, what chance has the rest of the food industry? Two years ago, BritishDutch conglomerate Unilever, which counts numerous brands from Knorr soups to Walls ice-cream in its portfolio, told Tesco it was putting up its prices by 10 percent, partly as a result of the falling British pound following the June 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Despite a socalled Marmite war, which saw the worldʼs third-largest retailer withdraw new orders of a popular Unilever spread made of yeast extract, and a public backlash against the price increases, the two sides quickly settled their dispute. The agreed price hike was never made public; however, Unileverʼs 2016 financial results showed it had achieved just a 3.6 percent price hike from its UK suppliers that year, leading analysts to question whether it had achieved much of a meaningful increase from Tesco. 4
Turbulent times ahead as stock markets shudder As global stock markets hit a rocky patch, many are asking if such volatility is a harbinger of worse to come or if this is just a natural market correction. DW looks at some of the key issues shaping the turbulence. Global stocks are set for their worst week in over five years, with important US benchmarks — the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Index — having erased all of their gains for the year on Wednesday. The leading indices in the eurozone are also down significantly. German stocks have slumped more than 13 percent in 2018, while French stocks hit a new low for the year, bringing losses to 6.77 percent. Italy is down 15.4 percent, UK equities down 9.43 percent and Chinese stocks are lower by 20 percent
Sudden drop in Chinese property prices leaves speculators reeling For the last two decades, property speculation in China has been a one-way bet. Take 57-year-old Shanghai businessman Tai Pei, for example. Having watched the Chinese real estate market grow for many years, he too was tempted to grab a slice of the incredible profits from the countryʼs massive construction boom. Tai bought three downtown apartments in Chinaʼs commercial capital and made almost 10 million yuan (€1.27 million, $1.44 million) profit when he sold two of them sometime later. At the beginning of this month, however, the developer of the apartment block where his third property is located suddenly dropped the price by a third, due to enquiries drying up. The abrupt change of fortune prompted many existing owners to protest outside the sales office, demanding compensation. Developer cheated people "Clearly the developer pushed up the price [of the flats] to cheat people when they already had plans to reduce them," Tai told.
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Carmaker Daimler logs shrinking sales and profits Daimler announced Thursday the groupʼs net earnings between July and September amounted to €1.76 billion ($2 billion), marking a 21percent fall in bottom-line profit year on year. The DAX-listed company said its operating profit (earnings before interest and tax, Ebit) would most likely drop by 10 percent for the whole year,following a 2017 operating profit of €14.3 billion. Daimler said the full-year decline would come "because of government proceedings and measures in various regions," in what was a statement amounting to the firmʼs second profit warning in four months. Third-quarter revenues came in at €40.2 billion, just 1 percent below the level reached in the same period a year earlier. Mercedes car sales shrank by 6 percent to some 560,000 vehicles globally as the carmaker kept seeing itself in a challenging environment,as CEO Dieter Zetsche pointed out Thursday. The company mentioned current difficulties with regard to higher import tariffs in the wake of an escalated US-China trade conflict.
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this year. Group psychology is everything in such situations and as Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at OANDA in London, said, "the mentality of the markets right now means that any reasons to sell are being leaped on." But how far it will go is anyoneʼs guess. Some on the left have been waiting for the market to fold under the weight of its own contradictions for over 150 years, after all. One thing for sure is that predictions will remain free and thus commensurate with their underlying market value.
Google: 48 employees fired for sexual misconduct
Googleʼs CEO has said the company is taking a "hard line approach" in response. Sexual misconduct has become a major issue in Silicon Valley, with 65 percent of women saying they have reported unwanted advances. Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday said the company fired 48 employees over the past two years due to allegations of sexual misconduct. The employees included 13 senior executives, Pichai said in a statement. "In recent years, weʼve made a number of changes, including taking an increasingly hard line on inappropriate conduct by people in positions of authority," Pichai said. Googleʼs announcement comes on the heels of a report by The New York Times that Android creator Andy Rubin had received a severance package of $90 million (€79 million) after a Google employee accused him of sexual misconduct. But Pichai said that none of the 48 employees fired over the allegations had received "an exit package." "We are dead serious about making we provide a safe and inclusive workplace. We want to assure you that we review every single complaint about sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct, we investigate and we take action," he added.
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Taking on plastic pollution with molecular recycling Now two young entrepreneurs are trying a new kind of recycling that could do the job
Plastic waste is a big problem. Turning it into new plastic sounds like the obvious solution, but thatʼs trickier than you think. A lot of plastic lives a short life as packaging before ending up in landfills, incinerators or somewherein the environment. But why doesnʼt more of it get recycled? Itʼs largely a problem of economics. "The root of the problem is that plastic packaging today just doesnʼt have any value at the end of its single-use life," says Miranda Wang, the CEO ofBioCellection, a California-based startup that wants to help solve the plastic pollution problem. According to Wang, no
technology exists that can turn those plastics into something that "is valuable enough to justify the process of retrieving them and doing something with them. This value problem is particularly bad when it comes to polyethylene (PE), which is used to make items like plastic bags, shrink wrap and other disposable packaging. According to a recent study, polyethylene accounts for about 36 percent of the 380 million tons of plastic produced annually worldwide.
Beware of germs in hand dryers The amount of bacteria in the air and on bathroom surfaces is much higher when jet-air hand dryers are used compared to paper towels. The reason being that people donʼt wash their hands properly. Consequently, the bacteria left on their hands is blown into the air and distributed on bathroom surfaces. In a stagedstudyin 2014, researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK found that jet-air dryers blew 27 times more bacteria into the air than paper towels. The same researchers have nowdiscoveredthat public toilets with jet-air dri-
ers have a much higher concentration of bacteria than ones that offer paper towels. Even more disconcerting: Some bathrooms with jet-air dryers contained antibiotic resistant bacteria. These bacteria are becoming a growing problem worldwide, especially in hospital and nursing home settings. The researchers believe that more efforts should be undertaken to ban jetair hand driers from public spaces, such as hospitals. Paper towels, they say, absorb most of the water and bacteria remaining on the hands, so that the germs canʼt be spread.
Who decides the morals of a driverless car? What are the moral decisions that driverless cars should make when an accident is inevitable? And who decides on those programmed answers? A new study opened that question to the public and found some surprising results. While technical aspects of driverless cars have been widely reported and discussed, the debate has now reached the morality of autonomous vehicles. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a new survey this week detailing preferences for the ethical decisions that autonomous vehicles may need to make when faced with unavoidable accidents. Such information could be used to inform the software within driverless cars, as well as the policy and laws in countries where they operate. The results showed a preference for human lives being spared over those of animals. More value was placed on a group of people as opposed to one or a few, and there was an expressed desire to save children before older people.
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Budapest ruin bar Ellátó Kert hosts Wednesday market What is usually a popular place for stag dos and after-hours drinking, the ever-busy Ellátó Kert in Budapest’s party quarter has just adopted a new feature: a farmers’ market. On Wednesdays between 4pm and 9pm, vendors from the Hungarian countryside stand behind neat stalls set up against Mexican motifs that characterise this ruin bar. Along with mangalica pork, apples and cheeses, the chutneys, croissants and chestnut honey here are the real deal. On Wednesday evenings at Ellátó Kert, instead of revellers drinking in the courtyard, you’ll see producers engaged in lengthy explanations about the crunchy mangalica cracklings, aged goats’ cheese, sweet rhubarb syrup, pumpkin bread or spicy zacuscă spreads they sell. As ambient music plays in the background, shoppers flutter between the stalls that replace the tables and chairs. This party central hangout transforms into the Finom Placc market for fresh farm produce, an established downtown gastronomy bazaar that recently received its permanent location within the ruin pub. Beyond Budapest’s historic bazaars, farmers’ markets have also been gaining popularity in recent years. Ruin bar supreme Szimpla, Buda’s Czakó Kert and the Élesztőház craft-beer pub are all regular venues for small-scale producers and their merchandise.
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Pep Guardiola: The six songs that define my life, love, football and family
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola chooses the songs that help define the key moments of his life and career in an exclusive interview with Spanish journalist Guillem Balague for BBC Radio 5 live. Guardiola speaks at length about his upbringing, his family and his special relationship with the people of Manchester, while reflecting on what the future might hold. He also talks about the night his wife and two daughters were caught up in theManchester Arena attack. This is Pep Guardiola as you have never heard him before.
Angelique Kerber eliminated from WTA Finals
The German tennis star missed out on the semifinals of the WTA Finals in Singapore after losing to Sloane Stephens in straight sets. Stephens and Kiki Behrens advance to the semifinals of the season-ending tournament. Angelique Kerberʼs tennis season has come to a somewhat premature end after she lost 3-6, 3-6 to Sloane Stephens in her third and final match of the WTA Finals in Singapore. The world number two failed to convert seven break points in the first set and found herself 4-2 down after Stephens broke her serve. Kerber also fell behind quickly in the second set before battling back to 3-3, but a misfired forehand gave Stephens the match-winning break the American needed to see out the match. 6
London Broncos have long-term ambition to win Super League title Promoted London Broncos must have the ambition to win Super League in the future, says head coach Danny Ward. The Broncos will be back in the top flight in 2019 afterbeating Toronto Wolfpack 4-2 in the Million Pound Gameon Sunday. "We need to make it work, have a five-year plan of where we want to be," Ward told BBC Radio London. "Next year is going to be tough but we want a long-term vision to make London the best club in the country." He added: "We donʼt just want to compete in Super League, but win it. We are not there just to survive." Ward, who took charge following the departure of Andrew Henderson at the end of last season, described their victory over the Wolfpack in Canada as "one of the proudest moments" of his career. "What a performance, what a day and what an achievement - I am still on a massive high," he said on their return to England. "To lead the club into the Million Pound Game and win promotion is one of my biggest ever achievements."
Daniel Ricciardo earns pole in Mexico as Red Bull rule qualifying F1:
Both Red Bull drivers will sit atop the grid for Sundayʼs Mexico Grand Prix with Daniel Ricciardo earning pole position. Lewis Hamilton will start in the second row as he looks to wrap up his fifth driversʼ championship. Daniel Ricciardo edged out Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen to earn pole position for Sundayʼs Grand Prix in Mexico. Verstappen, who was the fastest in all three practice sessions on Friday, missed his first career pole by 0.026 seconds. He was hoping to become the youngest Formula One driver and the first ever Dutchman to clinch pole position. The pole for Riccia-
rdo is his second of the season and the third of his career. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, who is hoping to clinch his fifth career driversʼ championship on Sunday, will start third on the grid. The Briton holds a 70-point lead over Ferrariʼs Sebastian Vettel and only needs to finish seventh to secure the championship. Vettel will start Sundayʼs race in fourth.
Lewis Hamilton not thinking about F1 world title before Mexican GP Lewis Hamilton is on the cusp of achieving something only two other men in history have done before - but he says he is not thinking about it. A seventh place in Sundayʼs Mexican Grand Prix would be enough to clinch a historic fifth world title, matching the great Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio and only two behind all-time record holder Michael Schumacher. And if the Mercedes driverʼs only title rival, Ferrariʼs Sebastian Vettel, does not win the race, it does not matter what Hamilton does, he will be cham-
pion regardless. Hamilton starts third on the grid, with Vettel alongside him in fourth, the pair of them behind the Red Bulls of Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen. But Hamilton - just as was the case last weekend at theUS Grand Prix,where he could also have clinched the title if results had gone his way - says the idea of celebrating his title in front of 135,000 wildly enthusiastic fans, in the converted baseball arena that makes up the last section of the lap and hosts the podium ceremony, is not on his mind.