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Italy moves to impound Aquarius migrant ship for ʼillicit waste managementʼ Italian prosecutors requested the seizure of the Aquarius on Tuesday for alleged anomalies in its disposal of on-board waste. The shipʼs operatorsslammed the moveas a "disproportionate and unfounded measure purely aimed at further criminalizing lifesaving medical-humanitarian action at sea." The Aquarius — run by SOS Mediterranee and Doctors without Borders (MSF) — is currently docked at the French port of Marseille due to having itsregistration flag revoked twice in two months, so the Italian confiscation order was not executed. Prosecutors in the Sicilian city of Catania said they documented the illegal disposal of 24,000 kilograms of waste by the Aquarius and another MSF ship, the Vos Prudence, between January 2017 and May 2018.

Prosecutors said the waste included clothing worn by migrants with contagious diseases such as scabies, as well as blood-stained bandages and other medical waste.

District judge blocks US from enforcing Trump asylum ban US District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco issued the temporary restraining order on Monday, granting the request made by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). "Individuals are entitled to asylum if they cross between ports of entry," said Baher Azmy, a CCR lawyer. "It couldnʼt be clearer." The order prevents the Trump administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally. A caravan of central American migrantshave made their way through Mexico to the border, seeking entry to the United States. Some 3,000 people have arrived in Tijuana, Mexico, right across the border from San Diego, California, prompting security services to close off a highway connection between the two cities and install mobile wire-topped barriers.

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EU budget talks fail The European Commission must submit a new proposal for the 2019 budget

The European Commission must submit a new proposal for the 2019 budget after negotiators failed to reach an agreement. With Europe facing many challenges — above all Brexit — pressure to find a compromise is rising.

Negotiators from EU member states and the European Parliament failed to seal the 2019 EU budget before a midnight deadline passed on Monday. The European Commission must now submit a new proposal and talks are expected to resume either later this month or early December.

"Unfortunately no breakthrough possible," Günther Oettinger, the EUʼs budget commissioner, said in a tweet after the deadline. He said he would "deliver a fresh proposal in a few days to allow sealing the deal by the end of the year." If there is still no breakthrough, the budget will be updated month-to-month without the expected increase for 2019. The EU parliament proposed a budget of €149.3 billion ($170.2 billion), just over a billion more than the €148.2 billion that member states agreed upon. The two sides have failed to come together in negotiations in recent weeks. Member states typically seek to limit expenditures while parliament tends to advocate for more spending. Among the unresolved issues are aid for Syrian refugees in Turkey, and proposed cuts by member states to growth and job-creation programs. The talks are especially important for Germany. Berlin is the biggest net contributor to the EU, providing around 20 percent of the overall budget. Negotiators from EU

member states and the European Parliament failed to seal the 2019 EU budget before a midnight deadline passed on Monday. The European Commission must now submit a new proposal and talks are expected to resume either later this month or early December. "Unfortunately no breakthrough possible," Günther Oettinger, the EUʼs budget commissioner, said in a tweet after the deadline. He said he would "deliver a fresh proposal in a few days to allow sealing the deal by the end of the year." If there is still no breakthrough, the budget will be updated month-to-month without the expected increase for 2019. The EU parliament proposed a budget of €149.3 billion ($170.2 billion), just over a billion more than the €148.2 billion that member states agreed upon. The two sides have failed to come together in negotiations in recent weeks. Member states typically seek to limit expenditures while parliament tends to advocate for more spending. Among the unresolved issues are aid for Syrian refugees in Turkey, and proposed cuts by member states to growth and job-creation programs. The talks are especially important for Germany. Berlin is the biggest net contributor to the EU, providing around 20 percent of the overall budget.

German coalition agrees to relax immigration rules for non-EU citizens Germanyʼs coalition parties have agreed on a new draft law to ease immigration for workers from non-EU countries, local media reported on Tuesday.

The ministries of the interior, labor, and economic affairs have all agreed to the new regulations, a compromise that came in October, ending long-standing disagreements within the governing coalition. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily, one of the most significant overhauls will scrap a law that required employers to prove that neither a German nor an EU citizen could be found to fill a position before they offered it to another immigrant. The new law will also relax restrictions that gave preference to so-called "bottleneck occupations" that had more vacancies than applicants, such as nursing and elderly care positions. Standards will also be introduced to allow those who complete vocational training in Germany time to find a job.

Spain threatens to vote No on Brexit deal over Gibraltar The government of Spain said on Tuesday that it would vote to reject the EUʼs draft Brexit agreement. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would only alter his vote if certain amendments were made regarding the future ofthe Gibraltar peninsula. "As of today, if there are no changes with respect to Gibraltar, Spain will vote no to the agreement on Brexit," said Sanchez during a conference in Madrid. The tiny British overseas territory is adjacent to the Spanish mainland, and has long been a point of contention between the UK and Spain.

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UN warns migrant children are missing out on education

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

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

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White House restores CNN reporterʼs press credentials CNN have said their lawsuit against the White House is no longer necessary

The Trump administration instituted new rules for press conferences after restoring the press credentials of reporter Jim Acosta.

CNN reporter Jim Acosta had his press credentials restored on Monday, ending a legal battle that has so far gone against the Trump administration. Acosta had his White House pass taken away earlier this month aftera contentious news conferencewith US President Donald Trump.

Sarah Sanders, the press secretary for the White House, confirmed the restoration in a statement but said journalists who ignored new rules for press conferences could have their credentials revoked. "A journalist called upon to ask a question will ask a single question and then will yield the floor to other journalists," Sanders said, adding a follow-

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

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

up question may be permitted at Trumpʼs discretion. CNN, whohad challenged the White Houseʼs actions in court, have dropped their lawsuit against the Trump administration, saying it was no longer necessary. During a post-midterm election press conference, Trump laid into CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta. After Acosta tried to get the president to answer his question, Trump yelled at him: "CNN should be ashamed of itself having you work for them. You are a rude, terrible person." After the spat, the White House suspended Acostaʼs press pass. CNN said the decision was an act of retaliation. unusual way, making her look directly at anyone who saw the fresco upon entering the bedroom. "Leda watches the spectator with a sensuality thatʼs absolutely pronounced," Osanna told Italian news agency ANSA. In the scene, Leda protects the swan with her cloak as the bird sits on her lap. Osanna noted that the fresco celebrates the Greek "myth of love, with an explicit sensuality in a bedroom where, obviously beside sleep, there could be other activities."

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

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

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

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

There, he exchanged fire with the officers and killed Dayna Less, 25, a first year pharmacy resident and police officer Samuel Jimenez, 28. in Iceland are also very aware that even we — in this top global position of the "gender paradise" as Iceland is sometimes called — have work to do. While there is a difference in degree between womenʼs equality in Iceland and some other corners of the world, the nature of the discrimination is the same.

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

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

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

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

German-Turkish dual citizen Adil Demirci on trial in Turkey The trial ofAdil Demirci, who holds both German and Turkish citizenship, got underway in Istanbul on Tuesday.

The 33-year-old is accused of being a member of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLCP) and of spreading propaganda.

"The last seven months have been very difficult for us as a family. We can hardly wait for my brother to finally be heard by the judge," Adilʼs brother, Tamer Demirci said. Demirci was employed in Cologne as a social worker and as a reporter for the Etkin Haber Ajansi (ETHA) news agency. Demirciʼs lawyer, Keles Ozturk, maintains that there is insufficient evidence to support the prosecutionʼs allegation that Demirci is a member of a terrorist organization. "The indictment states that Adil Demirci participated in funerals of alleged members of MLCP But there were more than 2,000 people at these funerals. Does that mean that all those present are criminals?

News of Demirciʼs arrest was first reported byMesale Tolu, who also works for the ETHA news agency.

She too faced charges in Turkey.

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

Filipino protesters fear losing territory to China

The first visit of a Chinese president to the Philippines in 13 years has drawn protests in the capital Manila over plans for the joint development of oil and gas in the

South China Sea (SCS). Infrastructure deals are also on the agenda, which are criticized as a Chinese strategy to create dependence through loans in smaller economies.

Pakistan honor killings haunting young women Khanzadi Mehboob lives in constant fear for her life after she married against the wishes of her family. Although honor killings are illegal, tribal customs in Pakistan often trump the rule of law. In 2008, when she was only 15 years old, Khanzadi Mehboob started teaching children in her village located near Jacobabad in Pakistanʼs southern province of Sindh. Her dedication impressed an NGO, which provided her "school" with a building in 2011.

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How will the EU-Italy budget standoff be resolved?

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

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

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Berlinʼs economic power creates ʼnew fear of Germanyʼ across EU Europe today fears Germanyʼs economic strength rather than its military might, historian Andeas Rödder tells DW. At the same time, Germany is meant to lead the EU: a dilemma for all sides.

Eastern German states demand €60 billion for coal phaseout Very few people in the Western world work directly with coal anymore, but fears engendered by the phase-out of this fossil fuel in favor of cleaner energy sources remain politically potent. Thatʼs especially apparent in eastern Germany, where, following US President Donald Trumpʼs lead, far-right populists are seeking to harness antienvironmentalism and anxiety about the economic future in the countryʼs poorest region. That was the backdrop to a press conference in Berlin on Friday at which the leaders of the three eastern German coal mining states — Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg — demanded a whopping €60 billion ($69 billion) in federal aid to stop producing lignite.

They saidthe economic interests of those facing unemployment should take precedenceover environmental protection. "We owe it to the people in our regions that the path is new jobs first, then the phaseout and then the discontinuation of existing production," said Saxony State Premier Michael Kretschmer of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU).

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"I’m not so much afraid of German power; its German inactivity I’m starting to fear," said Radoslaw Sikorski, then Poland’s foreign minister, while speaking in Berlin in 2011. You would never have heard a sentence like that before 1990, says German historian Andreas Rödder — certainly not coming from Poland. The national-conservative PiS party is now in power in Poland, and the words coming out of Warsaw are very different these days. But the ambivalent relationship between Germany and its eastern European neighbor, expressed

by Sikorski back then, still exists.

"There’s a new expectation that Germany will take the lead in Europe," says Rödder. "At the same time, Germany is confronted by the dilemma that this will revive old fears that Germany wants to assert its supremacy in Europe." There is no simple solution. Rödder believes Germany must take on the task, in the EU institutions and also, above all, at nation-state level. And in this he thinks it is more productive if it openly assumes a leading role rather than engaging in back-room politics.

Chinaʼs GDP growth slows to lowest rate in years

EU ministers back ʼfairʼ Brexit deal with UK

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

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EU leaders in Brussels have praised the Brexit deal but want to see the UK hold true to the accord until a special summit on Sunday. After that, there will be no renegotiations.

DWʼs Bernd Riegert reports from Brussels.

In a tremendous moment of unity in Brussels, the 27 national European Union ministers backedthe draft of the terms of Britainʼs exitfrom the bloc. At least that what the EUʼs chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, and Austriaʼs EU minister, Gernot Blümel said after a brief meeting Monday.

Austria currently holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union.From the EUʼs standpoint, the only question still open is a possible extension of the transition phase. The current transitional period, during which the blocʼs future cooperation with the United Kingdom must be finally negotiated, ends in December 2020. At the insistence from Westminster, a once-off extension is now on the cards. By the end of the week, both the EU and the UK want there to be a concrete date for the exit. British Prime Minister Theresa May has proposed a deadline as late as the general election scheduled for 2022.

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Obscure facts about Boris Becker Tennis legend, jet setter, father with a turbulent lifestyle

German actor among International Emmy Awards winners Actress Anna Schudt won the International Emmy Award on Monday for her portrayal of real-life comedian Gaby Köster in the TV movie Ein Schnupfen hätte auch gereicht (The Snif‐ fles Would Have Been Just Fine), based on an autobiography by the same title written by Köster. Köster is a popular German TV comedian who had to interrupt her career in 2008 after suffering a stroke, but didnʼt let its physically debilitating effects deter her.

While Anna Schudt is a renowned stage actress, however, Germans know her best as commissioner Martina Bönisch in the cult crime series Tatort. She is part of the Dortmund team of detectives, alongside Jörg Hartmann in the role of commissioner Peter Faber.

Tennis legend, jet setter, father with a turbulent lifestyle: Even though most of Boris Beckerʼs life has been covered in detail by tabloids, here are a few little-known facts about him.

In 1985, a 17-year-old player from Baden-Württemberg won at Wimbledonʼs prestigious tennis tournament, defeating the favorite at the time, Kevin Curren. Boris Beckerʼs triumph came as a complete surprise, and turned him into an international star overnight. Becker became the youngest Wimbledon champion, a record he still retains to this day. The German president at the time, Richard von Weizsäcker, was one of the first to congratulate him. The winning tennis racket used by "Bobbeles," as

Becker was nicknamed, was later give to Pope John Paul II. In Germany, Boris Becker triggered a sudden hysteria for tennis. Instead of football, people in the 1980s would watch the French Open; millions of people became members of tennis clubs. Meanwhile, Boris Becker kept climbing to the top rankings of world players. By the time his professional tennisplaying career ended in 1999, Becker had won 49 singles titles and 15 in doubles, including an Olympic gold medal.

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How the discovery of a Jewish bankerʼs looted estate reunited a scattered family Marcus Heinemann had a successful life. Born in 1819, the son of a Jewish peddler worked his way further up the social ladder. At the end of the century, he owned Lüneburgʼs most successful bank. Heinemann (pictured above with his 14 children, ca. 1884) was also a patron of the arts and played a major role in the construction of the magnificent Lüneburg Synagogue. In his spare time, he enjoyed visiting his children and numerous grandchildren, almost all of whom lived in Lüneburg like him. He died peacefully in 1908. The family patriarch fortunately did not live to see his descendants fall victim to Nazi

persecution 30 years later. Two of his children and 13 of his grandchildren were murdered in the Holocaust.

Those who were able to flee scattered all over the world. They gradually lost sight of each other. Shortly after anti-Jewish pogroms erupted all over Germany in thenight of November 9, 1938, the authorities had the Lüneburg Synagogue torn down at the costs of the local Jewish community.

Heinemannʼs estate was forcibly auctioned off and the Marcus Heinemann Hall in Lüneburgʼs Museum was renamed. At the end of the Second World War, it was as if Marcus Heinemann had never existed.

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A new exhibition celebrates 100 years of Budapest’s Gellért Hotel A recreated Baroque-style guest room, photos of the building taken during World War II and Communist-era posters reflect the history of Budapest’s most legendary hotel, the Gellért. A new exhibition at the Museum of Commerce & Catering celebrates the centenary of this institution which opened on 24 September 1918. Attached to the hotel is Budapest’s Art Nouveau Gellért Baths, whose outdoor wave pool, also illustrated at the museum, was the first of its kind in the world. Tucked away in the cobblestoned district of Óbuda, the former residence of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy is now home to a charming museum. Here, permanent displays include old-fashioned shop interiors illustrating the history of commerce and catering. This same building also hosts relevant seasonal exhibitions, such as the recently opened Gellért 100 to commemorate the centenary of the Gellért Hotel, a splendid Art Nouveau landmark towering above the Buda riverfront. Opened during the turmoil of World War I, during its long history, the Gellért has accommodated the likes of former US president Richard Nixon and the Dalai Lama. They both enjoyed the hotel’s fine facilities that are now brought to life through historic objects and images currently on show at the museum.

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ʼJustin Roseʼs rise to number one sold short by ponderous threeball formatʼ

It was a swift return to the top for Justin Rose - world number one again, two months after he had earned the honour for a single week. But there was nothing quick about the gutsy way the Englishman seized his opportunity to become the worldʼs best player for the second time. Rose needed to win the Turkish Open and got the job done at the first extra hole.

It was a scrappy end; Li Hoatongʼs dramatic three-putt capped a climax in which Rose nervously bogeyed the final two regulation holes.

Kroos rediscovering Germany form in new formation

Many of Germanyʼs old guard have come in for fierce criticismover the past 12 months and rightly so.

Coach Joachim Löw has to take ultimate responsibility for playing favorites, but performances have not been good enough from several stars of the 2014 World Cup win. Sami Khedira has been left out of Löwʼs plans, Jerome Boateng was missing from the latest squad, Thomas Müller has finally been given a bitpart role and Mats Hummels looks likely to go the same way.

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Aleksandar Kolarovʼs free kick stunner secures Serbia win over Costa Rica A brilliant second half free kick from captain Aleksandar Kolarov led Serbia to a deserved win over Costa Rica. Serbia were wasteful in front of goal but did enough to secure three vital points in Group E. Another World Cup day, another sublime freekick. If Cristiano Ronaldo’s ice-cold effort tosnatch a point against arch-rivals Spain on day two was the current goal of the tournament front-runner, the Portuguese may have just met his match. Aleksandar Kolarov, take a bow. A combination of poor finishing and sublime goalkeeping had kept the scores level until Serbia’s no.11 produced his moment of magic. Kolarov’s powerful left foot is no secret, but few inside the stadium would have expected such a thunderous strike when the Roma defender stood over a free kick midway through the second half. His shot was unstoppable; a side-footed missile which screamed into the top corner of the Costa Rica net.

Kaylor Navas, who kept his team in the game with several crucial saves either side of half time, was nowhere near it.

Andy Murray: Britainʼs former number one to play Open Sud de France in Montpellier Andy Murray has not played since reaching the Shenzhen Open quarter-finals in September

Andy Murray will play at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier in February.

The ATP 250 event takes place between 3 and 10 February, one week after the Australian Open. Britainʼs former world number one ended his 2018 season early in September, having only played 12 matches after returning from hip surgery in June. He said he wanted to get "in the best

shape possible for the beginning of the 2019 season" and "get back competing for the biggest tournaments".

Murray, 31, is expected to play at the Australian Open in January. and the Scot has already announced he will be playing in the Brisbane International earlier that month.

Manny Pacquiao v Floyd Mayweather: Rematch a ʼbig possibilityʼ says Filipino Manny Pacquiao says a rematch with Floyd Mayweather is a "big possibility" as he "cannot retire with peace of mind" following his 2015 defeat.

The Philippine greatlost to American Mayweatherin Las Vegas by unanimous points decision, although he has since regained a version of the world title. The two met in Japan at a concert, where they talked about a rematch. "I told him ʼIʼve got the belt and I am a championʼ and he said he would get

my belt," Pacquiao said. The 2015 fight between the two multi-weight world champions was billed as the ʼFight of the Century,ʼ but following a tame defeat, which saw Mayweather add the WBO welterweight title to his WBC and WBA titles, Pacquiao said he had beensuffering with a shoulder injury. "Itʼs different - this time there are no excuses," Pacquiao, 39, told BBC Radio 5 live boxing correspondent Mike Costello. "I cannot retire with peace of mind with that defeat."