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Israel evacuates 800 Syrian ʼWhite Helmetsʼ to Jordan Israel evacuated 800 members of theWhite Helmetsand their families from southwestern Syria to Jordan overnight, army radio said Sunday.The Israeli military said the evacuation was an "exceptional humanitarian gesture" carried out at the request of the United States and a number of European countries due to "an immediate threat to (the Syriansʼ) lives."Jordanʼs Foreign Ministry confirmed that it had allowed 800 Syrian citizens to enter the country and said they would travel on to Britain, Germany and Canada within three months. "The request was approved based on pure humanitarian reasons," ministry spokesman Mohammed alKayed said.

Trouble in Bavarian paradise: Will the CSUʼs hard-line asylum strategy pay off?

Horst Seehoferloves his native Bavaria. So when he announced at the last Christian Social Union (CSU) party summit that he would remain leader of the conservative Bavarian party when taking up the post of German interior minister — but hand over the position of state premier to his rival Markus Söder — he emphatically declared: "Bavaria is paradise!" The duo now intend to ensure the CSU will once again win the upcoming Bavarian state elections on October 14. Trouble in paradise Bavariaʼs ruling CSU government is proud of its picturesque state, which haslong been a popular destinationfor foreign tourists.

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Steve Bannon plans Brussels-based foundation ʼThe Movementʼ for EU far-right He wants to offer a right-wing alternative to George Sorosʼs foundation

Donald Trumpʼs ex-strategist, Steve Bannon, told the Daily Beast he hopes the foundation will fuel the spread of right-wing populism across Europe.

Right-wing ideologue Steve Bannon is preparing a European foundation which would advise and support populist forces across the continent, the US-based Daily Beast reported on Saturday. The organization would be dubbed "The Movement" and be based in Brussels, according to Bannon. The Belgian capital also hosts the headquarters of NATO and the EU. The Movement would research and write policy proposals, commission polling, and share expertise on messaging and data targeting. Bannon laid out his plans to the Daily Beast, saying he wanted to boost populist parties enough to create a right-wing "supergroup" following EU Parliamentary elections next May. The populist bloc could gather up to a third of 705 deputiesʼ seats (MEPs) to be decided in elections over the next year. Read more:Four facts about Steve Bannon, the former ʼDarth Vaderʼ of the White House "Everybody agrees that next May is hugely important, that this is the real first continent-wide face-off between populism and the party of

Davos," he said, referring to the yearly economic summit of heads of state and business in the Swiss mountain resort. Populism ʼwill governʼ Bannon also said he first got the idea after being invited to speak atan event by French populist Marine Le Pen earlier this year. The former chief strategist to US President Donald Trump has also met the UKʼs Nigel Farage, Germanyʼs AfD leader Alice Weidel, Hungaryʼs Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and other far-right EU politicians in recent months. The 64-year-old former banker claims European integration is coming to an end. "Rightwing populist nationalism is what will happen. Thatʼs what will govern," he told the Daily Beast. "Youʼre going to have individual nation states with their own identities, their own borders." The Brussels-based organization is set to open in the coming months with 10 full-time employees. The number might grow to 25, depending on the May 2019 European parliamentary elections, Bannon said.

Deadly suicide attack at Kabul airport as exiled VP Dostum returns A suicide blast at the main entrance of Kabul airport on Sunday killed at least 14 people as supporters ofVice President Abdul Rashid Dostumgathered to welcome the politician after 14-month absence. Medical officials said at least 50 people were wounded.

"The blast happened right after Dostumʼs convoy left the airport," Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai told reporters, warning that the number of causalities may rise. Neither Dostum nor any members of his entourage were injured in the blast.

German army mulls recruiting foreign EU nationals to boost recruitment Germanyʼs long-understaffed army has a new plan to boost recruitment: allowing foreigners from other European Union countries to serve in the unified armed forces (Bundeswehr). The defense ministry confirmed on Saturday that it was seriously considering the idea. "The Bundeswehr is growing. For this, we need qualified personnel," a Defense Ministry spokesman told German news agency DPA.

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Germany claims success with program to support migrant returnees After four years, Derrick Adamson had had enough. He was living in Germany illegally, and without valid papers his dream of a better life had come to nothing. "I heard that people from Ghana who were doing badly in Germany were given help if they returned home," 28year-old Adamson told DW. He went back — and is now receiving support from the German governmentʼs migration advice center in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. It arranged for him to be trained in starting up his own business. For one year he also had access to an adviser who helped him make the step to become self-employed. "I donʼt just approach things without any sort of plan anymore," says Adamson. "For example, I now know that you have to have sound financial planning."

India scraps controversial tax on sanitary pads India has announced that it has withdrawn a controversial tax on sanitary pads. Saturdayʼs rollback comes after a vocal campaign aimed at boosting female education, empowerment and, ultimately, job prospects. The move is part of a bigger package of cuts toIndiaʼs Goods and Services Tax (GST).

Around 90 consumer items, many of them popular with urban middleclass voters, will be impacted by the tax cut. "I think all women will be happy to know that sanitary pads will now have 100-percent exemption. There will be no GST on sanitary pads," Indiaʼs Acting Finance Minister Piyush Goyal told journalists Saturday.

Campaigners had seized on this issue because a lack of access to sanitary pads often forces girls to stay home during their periods. Missing school every month becomes a significant drag on girlsʼ education that ultimately hampers their job prospects as adults.

Sanitary pads were taxed at 12 percent under the GST, which was launched a year ago. A national survey earlier this year found that about 60 percent of women between the age of 16 and 24 didnʼt have access to tampons.

In some poorer areas of central and eastern India the figure was as high as 80 percent.

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani threatens to close Strait of Hormuz Likewise a war would be the mother of all wars

"Americans should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace," Rouhani told a group of diplomats in the Iranian capital, Tehran. "Likewise a war would be the mother of all wars."

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned the United States on Sunday that it could shut downinternational oil shipments in the strategic Strait of Hormuzif Washington continued to provoke Tehran. "We have always guaranteed the security of this strait," Rouhani told diplomats in the Iranian capital. "Do not play with the lionʼs tail; you will regret it

forever." The Iranian president, considered a moderate, has previously threatened to close the strait in response to US President Donald Trumpʼs threat to stop Iranian oil exports through the waterway. The strait is one of the worldʼs most important maritime trade routes and connects the oil-rich Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean.

more: Dominic Raab is UKʼs new Brexit: Britain Brexit secretary Talks on the divorce a breakthrough in might not pay €44 dealexperienced December, with Britain conceding to demands that it pay its remaining billion divorce bill EU financial obligations after it plans to if there is no UK- leave the bloc in March 2019.

EU free trade deal, South Africa: 11 warns D Britain might not paya promised 39 taxi drivers killed billion pound ($51 billion, €44 bilin highway lion) divorce billto the European Union if both sides fail to reach a ambush in post-breakup free trade deal, Britainʼs chief Brexit negotiator hinted on SunKwaZulu-Natal day. Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab

told Britainʼs Sunday Telegraph newspaper that EU law governing the talks required London and Brussels to negotiate their post-Brexit relationship alongside a divorce deal. Read

Eleven people were killed and four critically injured after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying a group of taxi drivers from a funeral in southeastern South

France: Macron ex-aide Alexandre Benalla under investigation over protester attack French authorities on Sunday opened a judicial investigation intoa disgraced former security aide to French President Emmanuel Macronand four others involved in an alleged attack on unarmed protesters in May. Alexandre Benalla, who had accompanied Macron since before the 2017 presidential election, faces possible charges of violence by a public official, illegal use of surveillance video and impersonating a public official. An official in Macronʼs Republic on the Move (LREM) party who was next to Benalla when the attack happened, Vincent Crase, is also in police custody. Three police officers could face charges of illegally giving Benalla police footage of the attack to help him clear his name.

Macron fired Benalla on Friday after French newspaper Le Monde on Wednesday published video footage showing the 26-year-old aide wearing a police helmet while beating a man and dragging a woman during May 1 demonstrations in Paris. Macronʼs office said Benalla had only been authorized to join the police as an observer.

Crase and Benalla, whose house was raided on Saturday, are now prohibited from possessing a weapon or holding public office.

Africa late on Saturday. The taxi drivers, who belonged to Gauteng provinceʼs taxi association, were returning home to Gauteng after attending a funeral of a colleague in neighboring KwaZulu-Natal province. The ambush took place between the KwaZulu-Natal towns of Colenso and Weenen.

Read more: South African policemen sentenced for taxi driver murder "There has been a lot of taxi violence in the area but we are still investigating who the perpetrators were," province spokesman Jay Naicker said.

Minibus taxis are the most popular form of transport in South Africa and violence between rival associations over lucrative routes has plagued the country for years. Ten people were reportedly killed in deadly clashes between taxi groups in western city of Cape Town in May.

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Mesut Özil breaks silence on Erdogan controversy Months after posing for a photo with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Germany footballer Mesut Özil has broken his silence on the furore. Özil says he had no political motive but the reaction "crossed the line."

In tweets sent on Sunday, Özil decided to address thecriticisms of him and international teammate Ilkay Gündoganʼs meeting with the hard-line Turkish leaderahead of the World Cup . "I get that this may be hard to understand, as in most cultures the political leader cannot be thought of as being separate from the person. But in this case, it is different," Özil wrote in English on his personal account in the first of his tweets, sent at 12:52 CEST. "Whatever the outcome wouldʼve been in this previous election, or the

Tokyo introduces mascots for 2020 Olympic Games

Japanʼs superhero-like mascots for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games made their formal debut at a ceremony in Tokyo on Sunday. Miraitowa, a big-eyed, blue-checked character, will be the official Olympic mascot. Organizers said the name was a combination of the Japanese words for future and eternity, expressing "hope for a bright future stretching off forever." The pink, pointy-eared Paralympic counterpart was christened Someity, which comes from the word for Japanʼs iconic cherry blossoms and also sounds a bit like the English words "so mighty," officials noted. Read more: Japan heatwave raises concerns over Tokyo 2020 Olympics Winners of childrenʼs vote The designs for the mascots were selected in February after schoolchildren across the country voted for their top two.

election before that, I would still have taken the picture." In a second tweet, sent two hours later, Özil took aim at the treatment dished out to him by the German media, who he accuses of having double standards based on his Turksih heritage. To emphasize his point, Özil mentions Lothar Matthäus, an honorary Germany captain who won the 1990 World Cup with West Germany. Matthäus met with Russian President Vladimir Putin recently and, according to Özil, received "almost no media criticism."

Donald Trump says lawyerʼs recording ʼperhaps illegalʼ

US President Donald Trump denied any wrongdoing following reports his former attorney, Michael Cohen, hadtaped them talking about a payment for a newspaper story about an ex-Playboy model who says she had an affair with Trump. In a tweet on Saturday, Trump said it was "totally unheard of & perhaps illegal" for a lawyer to record a client. Cohenʼs attorney called the presidentʼs statement "false." The New York Times reported Friday that the two-minute recording was seized by the FBIdur-

ing a raid on Cohenʼs office earlier this year. On the tape, the lawyer and his clientallegedly discuss buying the rights to the account of excenterfold Karen McDougal about an alleged affair with Trump in 2006.

"Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyerʼs office (early in the morning) — almost unheard of," Trump tweeted. "Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client." "The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!" he added.

Japan heat wave raises concerns over Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics During a visit to Tokyo, the head of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspection team, John Coates, acknowledged concerns that the heat could be a "huge challenge" for theTokyo 2020organizers. "We are mindful that we do have to prepare for extreme heat," he said. The Games are set to run from July 24 to August 9, 2020 when temperatures in central Tokyo could reach 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) and above. Japanʼs Meteorological Agency has warned of more high temperatures this week and has called on people to take precautions, such as drinking more water and turning on the air conditioning.

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US firms try to protect themselves amid Trump trade battles From September 2018, US President Donald Trump wants the US to have punitive tariffsof around 10 percent on handbags and clothing from China, among other things. For his daughter Ivanka, who owns her own fashion business, that may have quite a big effect because unfortunately for the First Daughter, the majority of her firmʼs products are made in the country her father has targeted above all others in his trade war. Trumpʼs protectionist approach has provoked reactions from his countryʼs biggest trading partnersand the US is now appealing its case to the World Trade Organization (WTO). "One things leads to the other in a trade war," said David Kotok, founder of asset management firm Cumberland Advisors.

That trade war, it would appear, has begun. US companies in the firing line Since the earliest days of his election campaign, Trump has promised to revive struggling US industries. He spoke of them as victims of bad trade deals and unfair practices. But already, some American companies are feeling the negative effects of his trade policy: "In a globalized economy, there are no winners in a trade war," says Kotok. Above all, multinational corporations with international supply chains are going to be affected. On the one hand, their products become more expensive and less attractive in foreign markets, when compared with domestic alternatives.

American whiskey, jeans and motorcycles are among those products already affected by this within the EU.

Why higher US tariffs on car imports would backfire Having slapped higher duties on EU steel and aluminum already,US President Donald Trump is now looking to curb successful European car imports, which have long been a thorn in his side against the general backdrop of a massive US trade deficit with the bloc and Germany in particular.

"We are finishing our study on cars from the EU," Trump tweeted earlier this week, saying the measures that his administration will take to rectify the imbalance will see things "evening out" fairly soon.

The American president has threatened to impose a tariff of at least 20 percent on all imports of EUassembled vehicles, a month after Washington launched an investigation into whether auto imports posed a national security threat.

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Credit card cloning on rise in India amid Narendra Modiʼs cashless push

In the Trump era, can the concept of ʼfree tradeʼ survive?

For economist Fred Bergsten and his ʼbicycle theory,ʼ trade policy is intrinsically unstable because it tends towards either liberalization or protectionism. To not fall off the bike (protectionism), he believes, multilateral trade negotiations must constantly pedal towards greater liberalization.

So, as the EUʼs top brass signedthe single marketʼs biggest trade deal ever, with Japan, this week, creating an open trading zone covering nearly a third of the worldʼs GDP, the question is — can the EU and other advocates of global free trade keep pedaling hard enough when the US appears intent on crashing the bike? Read more: EU, China seek closer ties as US turns against trade EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Maelstrom certainly thinks so.

"The EU-Japan deal will send a strong signal to the world against US protectionism," she said on Tuesday, just days afterUS President Donald Trump had characterized the EU as "a foe."

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In June this year, police in Indiaʼs financial capital Mumbai busted a card cloning racket that involved waiters at bars and restaurants across the city stealing data using credit card skimmers. The accused had managed to steal the credit card and debit card data of some 1,000 unsuspecting customers over a period of two years. This was not a one-off incident. Between April and December last year, nearly 24,000 fraud cases related to credit, debit cards and internet banking were regis-

tered in India, Mint newspaper reported in April, citing Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data. In Mumbai alone, cases related to credit and debit card fraud jumped 42 percent in 2017, the Hindus‐ tan Times newspaper reported. India was ranked among the top 5 countries with regard to credit card fraud, with more than one third of the people saying they had been scammed, according to the 2016 Global Consumer Fraud Report published by payments technology company ACI Worldwide.

EU-Mercosur trade deal ‘could be done by September’

Despite EU sanctions, hotel rooms available in Crimea

The EU and the South American trading bloc Mercosur are close to concludinga free trade deal that has been almost 20 years in the offing, according to Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie. "We have achieved a sort of critical mass that will enable us to go to the closing game," Faurie told reporters following two days of talks between seven Mercosur ministers and EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom. "The target is a good agreement that we consider that we will be arriving at more or less at the end of August, first part of September." Malmstrom also sounded an optimistic note but she was noncommittal on a date, citing previous roadblocks. "We are very close, but I donʼt want to give you a date because I did that before," she said.

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay are the four full members of Mercosur.Venezuela has been suspended since December 2016while Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Suriname are associate countries of the bloc.

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Search results for tourist accommodations in Crimea no longer appear on the website booking.com. Instead, the the company offers the following message: "Weʼre sorry, itʼs not possible to make leisure reservations in Crimea at this time on our website."

Reports that the international booking agency had stopped offering services in Crimea on July 16 sparked outrage in Russia. Lawmakers in Russiaʼs parliament, the Duma, jumped on the reports to once again condemn European Union sanctions. Brusselsimposed the punitive measuresfour years ago in protest to Russiaʼs illegal annexation of Ukraineʼs Crimean peninsula. The sanctions prohibit EU businesses from offering tourists services in Crimea. Officially, Dutch company booking.com ended services for tourists in 2014, insisting instead that offers were "exclusively for business travelers." Still, anyone looking for accommodation in Crimea on booking.com could find them. Such searches were only blocked in instances when users actually declared they were tourists. Now it seems booking.com has changed that.

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Private moments with Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace The show comes just a few months before his 70th birthday

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace shows some of the Prince of Walesʼ most prized — and personal —belongings.

Having high tea with the British queen might be a joy of life that only few people ever get to experience.

An exhibition at Buckingham Palace, however, invites visitors to see some of the more intimate personal belongings of the Prince of Wales and thus get to feel a little closer to the royal family. "The Princeʼs favorite art works will be shown alongside works created by young artists supported by three charities which he has founded and is patron of," the Royal Collection Trust says about the "Prince and Patron" art show. Among the 100 artifacts are family pictures, royal portraits, and even a cloak said to have

belonged to Napoleon himself. Prince Charles curated the exhibition himself and even included some of his own art works. Visiting Buckingham Palace Each summer, the queen leaves Buckingham Palace in London to spend the warmer months of the year in Scotland, at her private estate at Balmoral. During this time, Buckingham Palace opens its doors to visitors to visitors, with various exhibitions on display at locations like The Queenʼs Gallery and The State Rooms. "Prince and Patron" continues to welcome visitors until September 30. Shortly thereafter, Charles will celebrate his 70th birthday, on November 14.

How to prevent cooling from warming up the world On hot days, many of us automatically turn on the air conditioner or reach for a cold drink from the fridge without thinking twice about it.

But access to these kinds of cooling devices — something millions of people around the world still lack — can actually be a matter of life and death.

Cooling is key to ending poverty and hunger. With refrigeration, for example, we can store medicines and reduce food waste. Cooling is also vital to improving health and wellbeing. In short, to achieving sustainable development. Yet it entails great risk: as the use of cooling products increases, so too do global emissions, which contribute to global warming. The re-

sult is a vicious circle. The number of cooling devices is expected to quadruple to14 billion worldwide by 2050, researchers show. Without greening the sector, emissions would skyrocket and take us far fromreaching the 2-degree target set in Paris.

"If climate change were not an issue, itʼs safe to say that access to cooling would be like access to clean water or sanitation," Mark Radka, head of the Energy and Climate Branch of UN Environmentʼs economy divison, told DW. But since unfortunately climate change is an issue, granting access to cooling without further damaging the planet and its population remains a huge challenge.

Do we really need nextgen genetically modified foods to feed the world?

When a strawberry from Chile and a strawberry from the United States met in a genteel French garden 200 years ago — on a blind date arranged by gardeners who wanted to create a better berry — it was love at first sight.

Previously, imported species from the US state of Virginia hadnʼt produced much, while the fruits of European varieties were very small. As it turned out, the Chilean genes held the magic ingredient, and nearly every strawberry you buy in the market today comes from that strain. Luscious strawberries may be among the the tastiest results of genetic tinkering, but they are not the only.

Mesopotamians started propagating wild grasses with the biggest seeds 10,000 years ago, which eventually turned them into the crops we now call rice, wheat, barley, oats, millet and rye. In the fertile floodplain of the Danube river, west of Vienna, farmers have been breeding plants for at least 5,000 years.

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Latest Ryan Gosling film to open Venice Film festival in august A SMALL STEP FOR GOSLING, A GREAT STEP FOR MOVIEGOERS? THE HOLLYWOOD HEARTTHROB PLAYS ASTRONAUT NEIL ARMSTRONG IN HIS NEW FILM, FIRST MAN, WHICH WILL OPENS THE 75TH VENICE FILM FESTIVAL IN LATE AUGUST. FIRST MAN:

6/12/2018 - 8/31/2018 The fascinating Center of Scientific Wonders in Budapest now awaits children aged between 8 and 12 with exciting English-language daytime science camps. Kids who wish to dig deeper into the nature of sciences and art can get an insight into what it is like working in a laboratory, at an interactive exhibition, or at a scientific auditorium while they also get a chance to spread the wings of their creativity. The camps include plenty of playful events like workshops, experiments, physics shows in various themes, teambuilding games, arts-and-crafts activities, sports games, and several sweet surprises that will certainly sneak a smile on the faces of little ones.

Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling is set to fly to the moon.

But will it finally win him an Academy Award?

In the drama First Man, the 37year-old plays Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who was the first person to set foot on the moon.

The film was directed by Damien Chazelle, with whom Gosling already worked in La La Land, and has the coveted opening slot at this yearʼs Venice Film Festival, festival director Alberto Barbera announced yesterday. He described the film as "a very personal, original and captivating work." Claire Foy (The Crown) plays Armstrongʼs wife Janet, while Corey Stoll (House of Cards) performs the role of fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

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Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge tees off on the ʼamateursʼ at the DFB

Bayern Munich chairman KarlHeinz Rummenigge has sharply criticized the DFB over Germanyʼs early exit from the World Cup. Meanwhile, Joachim Löw presented the German FA with his analysis of what went wrong.

Germany head coach Joachim Löw told reporters outside of the German football association (DFB) headquarters in Frankfurt on Friday that he had presented the executive board with a "detailed analysis" of why the national team failed to advance past the group stage in Russia.

Andres Iniesta and Fernando Torres lose on J-League debuts

Spain legends Andres Iniesta and Fernando Torres both lost on their J-League debuts. Midfielder Iniesta, who won 32 trophies at Barcelona, only came on for the final 32 minutes of Vissel Kobeʼs 3-0 defeat by Shonan Bellmare. Many of the 26,000 crowd waved Spain flags for the 34year-old. Former Chelsea and Liverpool striker Torres was also a secondhalf substitute as Sagan Tosu lost 1-0 at home to Vegalta Sendai.

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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.

Tiger Woods creates golf buzz as he plays himself into Open contention It was the moment many in golf hoped for but few really expected.

As The Open championship reaches its final day, Tiger Woods has remarkably played himself into contention for the title with a round of five under.

On Sunday, Tiger Woods will contend for his 15th major golf championship after a remarkable performance on day three at the British Open. With the rain and wind gone, day three turned into birdie bingo and Tiger Woods delivered quite the card. Woods hit six birdies, with only a bogey at the 16th dampening his charge. For the last eight years personal issues and back problems have forced Woodsʼ golf career onto the back burner. His last

tournament win came in 2013 and since then the battle to return to competitive golf again has one been lost more often than won. That is what makes Woodsʼ performance at The Open — after missing the last two — all the more remarkable. His round of 66 was his best weekend round at a major since the 2010 US Open.

Briefly, Woods was even tied for the lead, which hadnʼt happened at a major since 2012.

Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool boss ʼdoesnʼt careʼ about transfer criticism Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp "doesnʼt care" about allegations of hypocrisy over his transfer spending.

After Paul Pogbaʼs £89m move to Manchester United in 2016, Klopp said he would quit football if such fees became commonplace.

The£66.8m signing of goalkeeper Alissonfrom Roma took Liverpoolʼs spending over the past 12 months to

almost £250m. "We donʼt care what the world around us is thinking," Klopp said.

"Like Manchester United didnʼt care what I said."

The German added: "It is only an opinion in that moment. Did I change my opinion? Yes. That is true. But it is better to change your opinion than never have one.