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Anti-Semitic attack on Paris bagel shop The managers of the Bagelstein restaurant in Parisʼs 6th arrondissement said on Sunday that they had been the victims of an anti-Semitic attack. The store window had been graffitied with the German word meaning "Jews" in yellow paint overnight. "We discovered the tag on Saturday morning, and it was probably done on Friday night into Saturday," co-founder of the chain, Gilles Abecassis, told French news agency AFP on Sunday. He added that some of their other windows have also been vandalized in the past. Abecassis said that he thought the yellow color of the graffiti was significant, not because of the recent yellow vest protests in France, but "maybe for the Star of David," armbands the Nazis forced Jews to wear. "One anti-Semitic tag in the middle of Paris is one too many," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner wrote on Twitter. "Our response: to do everything we can so that the perpetrator of this ignominous act is condemned."
German rescue ship named after drowned toddler Alan Kurdi A German migrant rescue ship operating in the Mediterranean was renamed on Sunday after Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian Kurdish boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish shore during the height of Europeʼs migrant crisis, galvanizing global opinion. German charity Sea-Eye renamed the ship in the presence of Alanʼs father, Abdullah Kurdi, and aunt, Tima Kurdi, in Palma on Spainʼs Balearic Island of Mallorca. Read more: Aunt of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi calls for compassion "We are happy that a German rescue ship will carry the name of our boy. My boy on the beach must never be forgotten. Our grief for the loss of my wife and sons is shared by many, by thousands of families who have so tragically lost sons and daughters this way," Abdullah Kurdi said in a statement released by Sea-Eye.
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Hungary gives tax breaks to boost population, stop immigration He said the policy was meant to create more Hungarians
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced tax benefits and subsidies to encourage families to have more children. He said the policy was meant to create more Hungarians instead of promoting EUbacked immigration. Hungaryʼs anti-immigration prime minister announced on Sunday that the government would offer financial aid and subsidies for families to boost the birth rate. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in his annual State of the Nation speech that the policy was "Hungaryʼs answer" to population decline, "not immigration." Read more: Is Viktor Orban the EUʼs hard-line hero or villain? "There are fewer and fewer children born in Europe. For the West, the answer (to that challenge) is immigration. For every missing child there should be one coming in and then the numbers will be fine," he said. "But we do not need numbers. We need Hungarian children," he added. In 2016, Hungaryʼs birth rate was 1.45 births per women, below the 2.1 replacement rate. The sevenpoint program includes a loan of 10 million Forint (€31,352, $35,540) to women under 40 who marry for the
first time. A third of the loan would be waived after a second child and the entire sum waived after a third child. Read more: Hungaryʼs Viktor Orban pushes for anti-migrant bloc to counter France and Germany Another plank of the program would absolve any woman who has four or more children from paying income tax for life. The new measures would also provide housing subsidies to families depending on the number of children they have and state support for the purchase of any seven-seat vehicle. Orban also took aim at the European Union ahead of European Parliament elections in May and hisnemesis, Hungarian-born American billionaire George Soros. Read more: EU Parliament votes to trigger Article 7 sanctions procedure against Hungary "Brussels is the stronghold of new internationalism, its tool is migration," he said.
Spain: Thousands demand Pedro Sanchez resign Huge crowds of anti-government protesters converged on central Madrid on Sunday topressure Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to step downand call fresh elections. An estimated 45,000 people packed into the capitalʼs Plaza de Colon, many of them waving Spanish flags and signs reading "Stop Sanchez" and "For a united Spain, elections now!" The rally was organized by the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) and the center-right Citizens Party, with backing from thefar-right party Vox. "The time of Sanchezʼs government is over," PP leader Pablo Casado told reporters at the start of the march. His opposition party is firmly against the prime ministerʼs decision to tackle political tensions in northeastern Catalonia by negotiating with pro-independence parties.
Hard Brexit risks 100,000 German jobs A hard Brexit could cost more than 100,000 jobs in Germany, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday, citing a study by the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The study, which looks at the effect of a hard Brexit down to individual districts and cities, showed that some of Germanyʼs well-known auto and technology hubs could face the maximum brunt.
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Germany speeds up asylum process German authorities took a little over six months on an average to process asylum requests in the third quarter of 2018, according to an Interior Ministry response to a parliamentary question by the Left party. The average processing time was 9.2 months in the first quarter and 7.3 months in the second quarter, newspapers of the Funke Medien‐ gruppe quoted. In 2017, the asylum seekers had to wait an average of 10.7 months for a decision. The time that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) officials needed to process asylum requests in the third quarter is still way below the target of three months that Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed with state premiers in 2015. "Instead of the costly and mostly ineffective process of questioning the protection status that has already been granted, as is currently happening hundreds of thousands of times in the context of the revocation investigations, the BAMF staff should be deployed to examine the asylum applications and gain better qualifications," Left Party domestic policy expert Ulla Jelpke told Funke newspapers. This could effectively shorten the length of procedures "without compromising the quality of the procedures," she said.
Germanyʼs migrants: wooed and discriminated "We are Hamburg. Are you in?" Thatʼs the slogan Hamburg is using to advertise municipal jobs to migrants. From police officers to teachers, doctors, bookkeepers and prison workers — the city is hoping to hire more employees with an migrant background. And itʼs not just Hamburg making this push. All throughout Germany, the business and public sectors alike are focusing on the countryʼs newest residents. Rising education levels Thatʼs because the average education level of migrants in Germany is on the rise. In 2011, one-quarter of young migrants between the ages of 18 and 25 had completed their "Abitur," or high school certificate exam. By 2015, that figure had climbed to 33 percent. During that same period, the percentage of youth without a migrant background who completed high school rose from 32 to 39 percent. 2
Italyʼs populists choose provocation over politics Watching Italyʼs populist leaders behave like bulls in a china shop is hard to bear
Iraq braces for more unrest as Basra protests gather pace An estimated 200 protesters gathered on Monday morning at the main gate leading to three of Iraqʼs major oil fields in the southern oil-exporting city of Basra. Protests in Basra, Iraqʼs second-largest city, started last Tuesdaywhen security forces opened fire, killing one person and wounding five. They soon spread to other provinces. Read more: Iraq hangs 13 ʼISʼ prisoners as PM Haidar al-Abadi calls for ʼjust retributionʼ The oil hub of Basra and other parts of the Shiʼite south have long been neglected, first by Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein and then by Shiʼite-led governments. But an ongoing political crisis and the recent rhetoric of Grand Ayatollah alSistani, the top Shiʼite cleric in the country have also clearly aggravated the situation.
Their escalating dispute with France is toxic for the EU, and we shouldnʼt let them get away with it, says DW. French President Emmanuel Macron is tired of the constant provocation coming from Italyʼs populist government. For a long time, he did not respond. Now he hastemporarily withdrawn his ambassadorto the country. The Elysee Palace issued a sharp statement on this punitive diplomatic action — something that shouldnʼt happen between fellow European Union member states. The basic message was that relations between the govern-
Germany: Auditors slam pricey naval ship repairs "Severe" mismanagement within the German navyand Defense Ministry led to massive cost overruns in restoration work on a naval training ship, according to a confidential report seen by Der Spiegel magazine. Repair estimates on the Gorch Fock were originally priced at under €10 million ($11.5 million), but skyrocketed to €135 million last year, the 39-page report from the National Audit Office found. The agency blamed military officers for inadequately examining the sailing shipʼs deficiencies, ignoring information vital for the repair work and failing to fully inform Defense
ments in Paris and Rome have reached their lowest point since the Second World War. Read more:Italy sends mixed signals in historic spat with France The populist boastersʼ reaction was to be expected: They have been making fun of "Napoleon" and the "crazy champagne drinker." Macron has become a great target during the current regional election campaign in Italy, as well as the European Parliament elections in May. Minister Ursula von der Leyen. Work on the shipʼs hull and renewal of its upper and middle deck began in 2015 without an economic feasibility study, and without considering the case for constructing a new ship, auditors said. A Defense Ministry spokesperson said the ministry would submit a formal reply to the Federal Audit Officeʼs accusations by April.
UK reveals fighter jet ʼTempestʼ for post-Brexit era Williamson said the "world-beating" jet can be used unmanned, as a drone, or with pilots. It is scheduled to be operational by 2035. The UK is to invest 2 billion pounds ($2.7 billion, €2.3 billion) to 2025 in the stealth
warplane, which will involve British companies BAE Systems and RollsRoyce as well as Anglo-Italian Leonardo and pan-European MBDA. Aiming to ensure UK leadership in defense Williamson said the program was designed to ensure Britainʼs continued leadership in fighter technology and control of airspace in future conflicts. Last year,France and Germany signed an agreementto develop Europeʼs next-generation fighter jet to replace the aging Rafale and Eurofighter jet by 2040, involving Europeʼs Airbus and Franceʼs Dassault Aviation. Following the 2016 Brexit referendum, Airbus moved to partner with Dassault at the expense of Britainʼs BAE Systems. There are concerns in Britain that its defense industry may be shut out from EU plans for next-generation fighter jets, although, officially, both projects have invited other companies to join.
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Scientists grow kidneys in rats from mice stem cells The technique could help grow human kidneys and combat a severe shortage of donors for people with renal disease. But scientists have cautioned that major barriers remain before it could be used in cases of humans. Scientists in Japan have successfully used mice stem cells to grow kidneys in rat embryos, a study published on Tuesday showed. The process has previously been used to grow pancreases in rats, but itʼs the first time that scientists have grown kidneys. The technique could in the future help grow human kidneys in animal embryos and combat a severe shortage of donors for people with renal disease. But the scientists cautioned that the development was just a first step and that "serious technical barriers and complex ethical
Reform Germanyʼs welfare state, urges communal association A simplification of Germanyʼs welfare state is wanted by its Association of Towns and Municipalities (BStGB). Only then, it says, will communities be able to cope with demographic aging and future economic strains. Germanyʼs11,054 communal authoritieswere overburdened with complicated welfare delivery and needed "de-bureaucratization" to stay within budget in the future, asserted association chief executive Gerd Landsberg on Tuesday. "Every problem is met with the promise that there is more money and naturally more personnel," he said, adding that, longterm, Germanyʼs highly legislated welfare state would not function, given finite taxation revenues, populations withmore elderly, and regions facing loss of industry and jobs. Landsberg told newspapers run by the Funke MedienGruppe (media group) – which is based in Essen in the once coal and steel-dominated Ruhr region – that the reform should start with the reexamination of welfare grants and tax relief for families.
issues" remain before the technique could be used to develop human organs. The researchers first identified rat embryos in which the kidneys could be grown. They then geneticallymodified the embryos to ensure they did not develop kidneys of its own. The embryos were then injected with pluripotent stem cells from mice and implanted into rat wombs so they could be carried to term. Pluripotent stem cells are a kind of "master" cell that can develop into any of the cells and tissue that make up the body.
The revolution in Iran that became a nightmare
Forty years ago, when the Islamic Revolution successfully deposed Iranʼs last monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, I was only seven years old. But age didnʼt stop me from becoming part of the demonstrations back then. My family, more precisely the part of the family that supported the revolution, took me to some of them. Our family, like many others in Iran at the time, was split into two camps: a majority against the Shah and a minority against the revolution.
In the first few months, political discussions at home and on the streets were still part of everyday life. At school we had to line up to chant slogans praising Ayatollah Khomeini and his allies, but on the streets there were times when the revolutionʼs opponents rounded us up and made us shout critical remarks against the clergy that had come to power. At home, we children were soon warned to be careful and to stay out of trouble.
German utilities call for more water infrastructure investment Karsten Specht, vice-president of Germanyʼs VKU local utilities association, said Tuesday that costly investments were needed to develop instrastructure for water supplies and treatment. The VKUʼs 1,460 members — largely consortia owned by local authorities — were already investing €6 billion ($7 billion) annually, Specht said. He added that while people took it for granted that taps brought water, they forgot that elaborate infrastructures were needed to get it there — and also for subsequent waste-water disposal. Politicians, must recognize this "long-term task."
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German firms warned about Chinese ʼcloud hopperʼ hackers Germanyʼs BSI information security agency, tipped off by America, has identified small weak-link service firms as the gateways used to hack German industry, Germanyʼs Süddeutsche Zeitung daily newspaper said on Wednesday. Referring to US President Donald Trumpʼs trade row with China and citing the "well-informed"website Axios, the paper said the BSI "acted promptly." Their actions in late November came after the US, via diplomatic channels, named German firms apparently targeted by "cloud hopper" hackers — allegedly from China. German mechanical engineering and material research concerns were targeted in particular, the Munichbased newspaper said. Cyber experts have long warned that Germany, with its high level of manufacturing and engineering expertise, would be keenly targeted for industrial secrets by hackers. The BSI - in a5 December press release — said the worldwide-circulating malware (malicious software) "Emotet," with the potential to paralyze enterprise networks, had led to a "heap" of severe incidents in Germany. Categorized as Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), these were "highly professional" attacks adapted and automated the use of Emotet within infected networks, said BSI president Arne Schönbohm.
Mann+Hummel: Hidden champion fights fine particles It only takes the weather to be unfavorable,and megacities across the world sink into wafts of mist. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), some 7 million people die every year partly as a result of inhaling polluted air over longer periods. Increasing traffic has no doubt contributed to creating "thick air." Many nations are in the middle of campaigns to reverse the trend by pushing e-mobility, arguing that electric vehicles donʼt have exhaust pipes as sources of poisonous nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. But a closer look reveals that fine particulates cannot be reduced drastically through electric cars. "Irrespective of a carʼs transmission system, it will always produce a lot of particulate matter," says Jan-Eric Raschke, who heads the fine particulates/filtration division at the German company Mann+Hummel. He explains thatroughly 90 percent of all particulate emissions in cars stem from tire wear and the braking system. 4
Poles abandoned in Brexit no manʼs land Warsaw wants Poles in the UK to come home and help the booming economy, well, keep booming. London now says it wants them to stay, but where does that leave the almost 1 million people caught in the middle? "Give us our people back!" Polandʼs prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki (pictured above, right), is not known for his quasi-biblical soliloquies. His UK counterpart, Theresa May (also above), even less so. And, finally, after months of wavering, her recent call for Poles to stay in Britain has done little to allay confusion and anger among many of the estimated 900,000-strong community. And the uncertainty means those caught in the crosshairs are unsure of their future. Marta Mills is a Polish woman who has been living in the UK since 2004, when Poland
2019: The year after peak global growth
After boom comes bust — few economists would disagree that this eternal rule of free market-based or capitalist economies is as true today as it was, say, 150 years ago. A similar consensus seems to be emerging in the profession about the current business cycle, which many say is nearing its end — in 2019, or 2020 at the latest. At the time of writing though, the post financial crisis economic boom still seems well set on becoming the longest expansion in many countries. If the American economy, for example, makes it past June 2019 without a recession, the recovery will exceed 120 months and become the longest expansion since US economic records were first taken in 1857. Yet, global data trackers, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), are less optimistic about ongoing growth in the rest of the world.The IMF, for example, thinks global growth plateauedat 3.7 percent in 2018.
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joined the EU. Married to an Englishman for 13 years, she lives in London. Marta says the 2016 referendum brought the worst out in some British people. "I mean theracism and the feeling of superiority over others, feeling of having the empire again, which I find pretty pathetic," she says. "People started saying nasty things out loud, as if the Brexit vote somehow legitimized what they were feeling but had always been unable to say out loud. Brexit has made them feel empowered to ʼfinally come out and tell those bloody immigrants what to do.ʼ"
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Japanʼs Nikkei index closed on Tuesday after tumbling by an unusually large 5.1 percent. Stocks in Shanghai and Taiwan also tumbled following heavy losses on Wall Street over PresidentDonald Trumpʼs attack on the US central bank. Tokyoʼs benchmark stock index hit a 20-month low as worries mounted over the US economy during a government funding crisis. On Monday evening, Trump shocked investor confidence by hitting out at the Federal Reserve, tweeting: "The only problem our economy has is the Fed. They donʼt have a feel for the Market, they donʼt understand necessary Trade Wars or Strong Dollars or even Democrat Shutdowns over Borders." Although the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, was nominated by Trump, the Fed is not under the control of the White House, much to Trumpʼs consternation. The US economy has also been suffering from trade disputes Trump has started with China.
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Sales of diesel cars conforming to Euro 5 emissions standards have plummeted, despite recent moves to allow retrofitting. Even newer models are selling poorly. Dealers have a glut of unsold diesel cars. Off-lease models are compounding the problem.
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Reasons to care about your gut flora
The microbiome in our stomach has been linked to various aspects of mental and physical health
Celebrating firebrand poet Else Lasker-Schüler 150 years on If you take a trip to Wuppertalʼs Elberfeld suburb in search of Jewish German poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schülerʼs place of birth (on February 11, 1869) youʼll only encounter two huge, dark slabs of granite there — the house was destroyed during World War II. The monument portrays Lasker-Schüler with a stern facial expression contrasted with one of her most recognized poems, "Weltflucht" (Withdrawal from the World): "I would flee into the immensity Of myself, Already the meadow saffron blooms In my soul, Perhaps — itʼs too late to turn back! O, I die with you! Since I was choked with you. I wanted threads to encircle me — Ending confusion! Undeterred, Tangled in you, In order to escape Into myself!"
No Red Bull Air Race for Budapest in 2019 So what do we actually know about whatʼs going on in there and how it affects our overall health? With probiotics, fermented foods and kombucha all trending in recent years, we wanted to find out what all the fuss was about when it comes to our gut health. Inside our stomachs and intestines are hundreds of different kinds of ʼgoodʼ bacteria that help us digest food, making up what is known as the microbiome. This ʼgut floraʼ is partly made up of bacteria we are born with (coming from our moth-
The film opens on a pen of pigs noisily eating, surrounded by endless fields of wheat, symbolizing Ukraineʼs extremely fertile agriculture. By 1932-33 such backdrops had been replaced by violent impoverishment, as Ukrainians suffered from one of historyʼs most disastrous manmade famines: Stalin turned Ukraine into the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, exploiting its resources to fund his ambitious industrialization projects and keep his important party
officials well fed. The term used to describe the mass starvation is "Holodomor," which combines the Ukrainian words for hunger (holod) and extermination (mor). Polish director Agnieszka Hollandʼs film Mr. Jones, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on Sunday, portrays the journalist who revealed to the Western world the mass starvation of the Ukrainians caused by Stalinʼs collectivization of farmlands.
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ers) and partly dependent on our diet and lifestyle. Each personʼs mix of gut bacteria is unique. Foods high in fiber from fruits and vegetables, along with yogurt, kefir, other fermented and pickled foods are believed to culture a healthier gut. A healthy balance of good bacteria also keeps ʼbadʼ bacteria at bay, by squeezing them out for space to grow.
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Budapest Mayor István Tarlós has not authorised the organisation of the Red Bull Air Race in Budapest this summer – according to a statement just issued by the Mayor’s Office. Held annually in several major cities with notable landmarks for skyline backdrops, the Red Bull Air Race is Formula 1 in the air, presenting incredible stunt-flying spectacles performed by the world’s best pilots. Every year except one since 2003, Budapest has hosted the race, but now it seems that for 2019, the Red Bull Air Race will skip the Hungarian capital.
Thanks to the largest-scale and most comprehensive reconstruction project in the museum’s history, the museum building has been renewed, and, returning to the collection’s first concept, the museum’s permanent exhibitions will also be rearranged. Besides the new permanent exhibitions, the revamped museum will welcome visitors with a chamber exhibition titled Leonardo & the Budapest Horse and Rider. The museum reconstruction, implemented within the framework of the Liget Budapest Project, included the restoration of the Romanesque Hall, which sustained severe damage in World War II and since then had been only partially renovated and used as a storage area, along with the modernisation of the building’s obsolete heating system, the installation of air conditioning in some of the exhibition halls, the renewal of a large part of the roof structure, as well as the addition of new exhibition spaces, visitor areas and modern storage facilities.
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Gareth Bale: Real Madrid forward tops British export greats with 100th goal for Spanish club
Real Madrid got an instant return on Gareth Bale when they signed him from Tottenham Hotspur for a then world-record fee of £85.3m in 2013. The 24-year-old Wales forward made an immediate impact on his debut on 14 September 2013, scoring at Estadio de la Ceramica alongside Cristiano Ronaldo asReal Madrid were held to a 2-2 draw at Villarreal. Scroll forward six seasons and 1,974 days and Bale, now 29, claimed his 100th goal for Los Blancos, scoring Real Madridʼs third in a3-1 win over cityrivals Atletico. Baleʼs century of goals for the Spanish giants includes three in Champions League finals including two in last seasonʼs3-1 win over Liverpool- and a stunning individual effort that clinched the 2014 Copa del Reyagainst arch-rivals Barcelona.
Aleksandar Kolarovʼs free kick stunner secures Serbia win over Costa Rica
Mbappe donates to Sala pilot David Ibbotson search fund
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.
Emiliano Sala was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson
French football star Kylian Mbappe has donated £27,000 to a fundraising appeal set up by the family of missing pilot David Ibbotson. Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, was flying Cardiff Cityʼs Emiliano Sala from Nantes to the UK when their plane crashed near Guernsey on 21 January. The footballerʼs body was recovered from the wreck on the seabed, but Mr Ibbotsonʼs body has not been found. Former England captain Gary Lineker has also donated £1,000. By Sunday evening more than 7,000
donations had been received, pushing the total raised to more than £130,000 of the pageʼs £300,000 target. World Cup winner and Paris St-Germain forward Mbappe, whose full name is Kylian Mbappe Lottin, donated under the name Elie Lottin. Lineker linked to the page from his Twitter feed, saying: "Hereʼs the Go Fund Me page should you wish to help this poor family".
Australian Open: Angelique Kerber cruises into second round
Naomi Osaka wins against Petra Kvitova at Australian Open The 2016 champion needed just 72 minutes to beat the Slovenian and talked about being in the groove after getting off on the right foot down under. Read more: What will 2019 bring for Angelique Kerber? "Iʼve played a lot of matches here already in Australia ... I have my rhythm," said Kerber, who played lead-up events in both Perth and Sydney. 6
Japanʼs Naomi Osaka has claimed victory over Czech Petra Kvitova to win the Australian Open, earning Osaka the first top ranking in her career. The win also means back-toback Grand Slam titles for the 21year-old Osaka. With a two sets to one victory against Czech Petra Kvitova on Saturday, Japanese Naomi Osaka snatched her first-ever victory at the Australian Open in a tense battle of wills. Osaka served first in Melbourne and managed to claim the first set after a win-
ning the tiebreaker 7-6 (7-2). She appeared on track to a quick victory in the second set of the match, with the Czech making costly mistakes around the midpoint and handing Osaka a 5-3 lead. However, Kvitova then managed to stave off three championship points and eventually won the set 7-5. In the deciding set, Osaka regained her composure and clinched victory by snatching six games to Kvitovaʼs four. "I felt like I was in a state of shock through the entire trophy presentation," Osaka told reporters.