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Japanʼs Tepco fights for return to nuclear power after Fukushima Decades ago, nuclear power was supposed to be the perfect solution for Japanʼs thirst for energy and for its rural economies. And in the sleepy town of Kashiwazaki, in the prefecture next to Fukushima, the solution was supposed to bethe KashiwazakiKariwa nuclear power plant,run by the power company Tepco — the company responsible for the 2011 Fukushima accident. When in full operation, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant is the biggest in the world, capable of servicing 16 million households. But all of its seven reactors have been idle since the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi. This is Tepcoʼs only remaining nuclear power plant apart from the tsunamistricken plants in Fukushima, in the neighboring prefecture. Tepco has been repeatedlycriticized for its negligenceand has been ordered topay compensation to the residents.The cleanup of the Fukushima power plant has beencausing major headaches,while the reasons for the accident have yet to be clarified even eight years later.

German Leftʼs Wagenknecht to stand down Wagenknecht said Monday she would not seek re-election in September as co-leader of the Leftʼs 69-member opposition parliamentary group, a post she has shared inside the Bundestag debating chamber with Dietmar Bartsch since 2015. Writing to the partyʼs executive, Wagenknecht attributed her recent two-month absence, including non-attendance at the Leftʼs recent Bonn convention, primarily to "stress and overload," adding that she had recovered and was feeling "fine." "I will, of course, remain politically active and will continue to commit myself to my convictions and social goals," said Wagenknecht, a highprofile figure often seen on talk shows, who originally comes from Germanyʼs eastern state of Thuringia.

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China orders airlines to suspend Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes after Ethiopia crash The same model was involved in another deadly crash less than six months ago

A plane crash in Ethiopia has prompted airlines in China, Indonesia, Ethiopia and the Caymans to ground Boeingʼs 737 MAX 8 passenger jets.

All Chinese carriers were ordered to suspend the use of their 737 MAX 8 airplanes on Monday, a day after one of the Boeingsʼ narrow-body jets crashed in Ethiopia, Chinaʼs aviation authority said.The Ethiopia tragedy, which claimed 157 lives, comes less than six months aftera Lion Air crash in Indonesia which involved the same type of aircraft.

"Given that two accidents both involved newly delivered Boeing 737-8 planes and happened during the takeoff phase, they have some degree of similarity," the CAAC said. The suspension, according to the CAAC, follows the bodyʼs principle of zero-tolerance on any safety hazards. The Boeing plane model only entered service in 2017. The CAAC said it would inform its airlines about ending the suspension after contacting the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing representatives to ensure flight safety. Chinaʼs carriers operate nearly 100 737 MAX 8 jets. Indonesia also announced all of its 737 MAX 8 jets would be kept on the ground for inspection. Separately, Ethiopia Airlines also banned all flights involving its four remaining 737 MAX 8s following the Sun-

day crash. Cayman Airways was also temporarily grounding its two planes of the same model. The Ethiopian jet came down minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday morning. All 149 passengers and eight members of the crew were killed. Investigators found the planeʼs black boxes on Monday, Ethiopian state broadcaster reported.

Both the flight data and the cockpit voice recorder have been recovered, according to Ethiopian Airlines.

Previously, the companyʼs CEO Tewolde GebreMariam said that pilot attempted to return to the airport.

"The pilot mentioned that he had difficulties, and he wants to return.

He was given clearance" to turn around, the CEO told reporters. The Nairobi-bound plane had "no known technical problems," according to the executive. Weather conditions were good at the time of the flight, and the pilot had logged over 8,000 cumulative flight hours. Flames before crash A witness cited by the AFP news agency reported the aircraft was already on fire on its "rear side" before hitting the ground.

"The plane was swerving erratically before the crash," Tegegn Dechasa said.

How Germany is failing disabled and special-needs students Coming from a school system where inclusion was the norm, when I first arrived in Germany as a 16-year-old exchange student, one of the first things I noticed was that there was no wheelchair access to the school building. There was no braille underneath the classroom signs. No one appeared to be on the autism spectrum or have the slightest sign of mental illness.

Every student had a relatively similar set of intellectual skills. "The problem is, the German education system is highly selective. Children are separated into the university-bound Gymnasium or other types of secondary schools at a young age," said Timm Albers, a specialist in inclusive education at the University of Paderborn.

Germanyʼs dual-track school system divides students into those who are deemed fit to go on to higher education and those who are channeled to vocational schools when they have completed 10 years of school.

Turkey summons Belgian ambassador in Ankara over PKK ruling

Turkeyʼs Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned Belgiumʼs ambassador in Ankara over a Belgian judicial decision it said prevented the prosecution of people with alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workersʼ Party (PKK), according to a foreign ministry official. The summoning of Belgian Ambassador Michel Malherbe comes after a case in which Belgian federal prosecutors were seeking to try around 30 suspected members of the PKK who allegedly recruited young Kurds in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe, and then took them to combat training camps.

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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.

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Brexit vote to proceed as planned UK PM:

Downing Street has rejected rumors that the Tuesday vote will be delayed again due to the unpopularity of Theresa Mayʼs deal among lawmakers. The British prime minister is set to travel to France for last-minute talks.

The office of UK Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday that a vote on her latestdeal to leave the European Unionwill go ahead this week as planned, shutting down speculation that the vote would be canceled over a lack of support. The prime minister is due to address reporters on the status of proposal later on Monday. According to Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, May plans to travel to Strasbourg, France, on Monday evening to finalize negotiations before bringing the

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

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.

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"The British prime minister is traveling to Strasbourg this evening, I understand, to try to finalize an agreement, if thatʼs possible, to be able to put that to a meaningful vote in Westminster tomorrow," Coveney said. But theEUʼs chief negotiator Michel Barniersaid in a statement to French news agency AFP that he thought the time had come for May to focus on coming to an agreement with UK lawmakers rather than European ones.

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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Donald Trump wants allies to pay much more for hosted US troops The former commander of US troops in Europe says charging allies for that military presence would be a "really serious mistake." Retired General Ben Hodges tells DWʼs Teri Schultz the US would pay the larger price.

Retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges said he was "astounded" when he first heard rumors a few weeks ago that the Trump administration may start billing countries which host United States military installations and forces. "I thought ʼyouʼve got to be kidding; this just canʼt possibly be a serious policy consideration,ʼ" the former commanding general of US Army Europe told DW. The Euro-

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.

pean Council on Foreign Relations published a report last month suggesting Trump may be preparing some "bills" for NATO allies, but the fact that these stories have now risen to the level of news articles — including specifics such as that the charges would cover the full cost of US deployments plus 50 percent more — has Hodges very concerned.

Taliban founder lived near US military base in Afghanistan

Taliban founder Mullah Omar lived next to a US base in the Afghan province of Zabul for years, Dutch journalist Bette Dam claims in her new Dutch-language book "Searching for the Enemy." "The US, and almost everyone else, had it wrong," Dam, who spent eight years researching the Taliban leader, wrote inan Englishlanguage excerpt. "After 2001, Mullah Omar never stepped foot in Pakistan, instead opting to hide in this native land — and for eight years, lived

just a few miles from a major US Forward Operating Base that housed thousands of soldiers." Dam said the finding was corroborated by Taliban and Afghan officials, including Mullah Omarʼs personal bodyguard. She described it as a "staggering US intelligence failure." "Though Mullah Omar did not venture outside for fear of being caught, according to (bodyguard) Jabbar Omari, in the four years they hid in that home they felt relatively safe," added Dam.

ʼMiss Germanyʼ goes to police officer, cyber crime investigator Freshly crowned Nadine Berneis said Saturday she would apply for one yearʼs leave from her Stuttgart police precinct for her new role as German beauty emissary. "My dream has come true," said Berneis, originally from Dresden in Germanyʼs eastern state of Saxony, and an enthusiast of endurance fitness training and cycling. The 28-year-old was picked by a four-member jury, including the British dancer Nikeata Thompson and former German "law-and-order" federal parliamentarian Wolfgang Bosbach.

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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.

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Deutsche-Commerzbank merger is non-starter from the beginning Thereʼs once again talk in Germany of a possible merger between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank. But DWʼs Henrik Böhme is not convinced it will solve the banksʼ structural problems.

One only has to look back two decades. At the time, Dresdner Bank was the focus of attention. First Deutsche Bank tried to take over the number two bank in Germany, followed by an equally unsuccessful attempt by Commerzbank. In the summer of 2001, the bank was finally sold to the insurance giant Allianz for around €30 billion ($33.7 billion).

But seven years later, Allianz had lost

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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Japanʼs Nikkei plunges after US economic turmoil 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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interest and sold the Dresdner to Commerzbank, which had to put a mere €9 billion on the table to acquire it. The only remarkable thing during the time Allianz and Dresdner Bank spent together was a drastic reduction in jobs.

And the timing was extremely unfavorable: shortly after the takeover, the world financial crisis broke out — and Commerzbank had to seek government support worth billions of euros.

Justin Trudeau admits to mistakes in corruption trial crisis but not breaking any rules

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denied interfering in Canadaʼs judicial system, though conceded he should have done things differently in handling accusations he intervened to shield a firm of bribery charges.

Embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted to making mistakes in his handling of a controversy that threatens to sink his government ahead of October elections, but he stopped short of apologizing. Trudeau said on Thursday that his government had done nothing illegal afteraccusations of hindering the prosecution of giant Canadian engineering firm SNCLavalin. "There are many lessons to be learned and many things we would have liked to have done differently," he said, but he insisted there was no breakdown in Canadian justice. Trudeau tried to shore up the biggest crisis of to face his government which has already seen theresignationof two high profile Cabinet members and a close aide. ʼNo pressureʼ Trudeauʼs former adviser Gerry Butts defended the prime minister yesterday in the House of Commons, telling the justice committee that "nothing happened here beyond the normal operations of government."

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What our teeth reveal about us Have you lost a milk tooth or had a tooth pulled out? A group of researchers wants them

They can find out all sorts of useful medical information about you from your teeth — even predict future diseases.

Are you always brushing your teeth? One look inside your mouth and your dentist will know. The worse the condition of the teeth, the lower on average the social status of the patient. At the same time, teeth are like afingerprint:forensics can use a dental impression to identify the perpetrator or the victim at a crime scene.

Weʼve known this ever since Inspector Columbo, played by Peter Falk, fished chewing gum out of a trash can in the well-known television series and solved a case.

Hereʼs where it gets exciting: Researchers now claim to be able to draw information from a childʼs teeth about whether they are likely

to develop mental illness. In older people, on the other hand, teeth may reveal whether they have been exposed to heavy metals and whether there is a high risk of Alzheimerʼs disease.

"In the field of mental health, is it possible that we have been ignoring this potential marker that literally falls out of peopleʼs mouths or is extracted and then thrown away and ends up in landfills?" asked Erin Dunn of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, US. The epidemiologist for psychiatric diseases thinks that teeth, especially milk teeth, should be given much more attention.

Kaiser Ottó: Sights and Tastes of Hungary This fascinating „chef album” is a special journey in itself. It takes you through the beautiful regions of Hungary and offers the opportunity to explore the flavours of Hungarian cuisine. The landscape and food photos by photographer Ottó Kaiser are accompanied by recipes from interna-

tionally acclaimed master chef Ottó Laczkó – all this complete with a hint of history, culture, geography and even ethnography. Western Transdanubia, Middle Transdanubia, Lake Balaton, Southern Transdanubia, Budapest, Northern Hungary, Northern Great Plain, Southern Great Plain

Hungary at a Glance (Published by Scolar Publishing Company) It is a unique feature of the Carpathian basin that its relatively small area hosts an unparalleled variety of ethnic groups, religions and civilizations. This cohabitation gave birth to a common culture, while a truly multi-layered nation was also formed. For centuries the descendants of the founding Hungarian tribes lived alongside ancient peoples who preceded them and the people migrating here from neighbouring nations.

Hungarians, Slovaks, Romanians, Serbs and Germans shared a common land here, just like the members of the different faiths – Catholics, Calvinists, Lutherans and Jews – did. Our book is a special project, as it tries to convey the colourful nature of Hungary and its people. This unique “guidebook” covers everything from history to cultural heritage, from the achievements of the arts and sciences to the extraordinary music scene. Although these pages will give you only a glance, we do hope that this glimpse will inspire real love for this country in all our readers.

Budapestʼs historic Lotz Hall café reopened as Café Párisi

After two years of undesired silence a new café has opened its gates in Budapest’s neo-renaissance styled jewellery box, the former Paris Deparment Store (Párisi Nagy Áruház). Situated in the heart of the city on Andrássy avenue, Café Párisi is the perfect location for those who wish to enjoy the luxury of early 20th century Budapest. The newly reopened location is already one of Budapest’s hidden gems: set in the Paris Department Store’s mezzanine level just below the iconic frescos created by renowned Hungarian painter Károly Lotz.

Párisi Café has everything you could ask for from traditional Hungarian cakes like the Eszterházy or the Gerbaud slide to alternative milk-based cafés. Open everyday from 9:00 - 21:00

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Illés Andrea: World Heritage Sites in Hungary Every country in the world has breathtaking landscapes and imposing monuments of which it can be genuinely proud. This is certainly true of Hungary, where the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has already inscribed several sites as part of the world heritage. In 1987, the Budapest panorama from the banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and the village of Hollókő were the first to be included on the World Heritage List, while the most recent additions, in 2002, were Andrássy Avenue and the Tokaj historic wine region. Between these two dates, five Hungarian sites were granted world heritage status: the caves of the Aggtelek karst, the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma, Hortobágy, the Early Christian necropolis of Pécs and the Fertő Lake area.

This impressive, lavishly illustrated book introduces readers to the World Heritage sites of Hungary, along with sites that may be awarded UNESCO protection in the near future.

Scolar Kiadó is the first publishing house to have compiled a complete overview of Hungarian World Heritage sites and of the nominated sites on UNESCO’s tentative list, sharing these treasures through the skills of renowned photographers.

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Two Germans win second gold medals at Nordic World Ski Championships

Germanyʼs Markus Eisenbichler on Sunday helped destroy the opposition to win gold in the large hill skijumping team event — his second world title at this yearʼs FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld, Austria. Eisenbichler and his compatriots Karl Geiger, Richard Freitag, and Stephan Leyhe led from start to finish on Innsbruckʼs Bergisel hill, winning 987.5 points overall, a massive 56.5 points — or 31 meters (101 feet) — ahead of hosts Austria, who took silver, and Japan (bronze).

Eisenbichler won individual gold ahead of Geiger on Saturday on the Innsbruck hill and now joins compatriot Nordic combined skier Eric Frenzel and Norwegian cross-country skier Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo as a two-time Seefeld champion.

Australian Open: Angelique Kerber cruises into second round

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.

Zinedine Zidane returns as Real Madrid coach He has signed a three-year deal until 2022

After a disastrous season so far, Real Madrid have replaced coach Santiago Solari with club legend Zinedine Zidane, just 10 months after the Frenchman left the club.

Zinedine Zidane has made a surprise return to Real Madrid as head coach just 10 months after he left the Spanish giants. A tumultuous two-week period for the club, where they were knocked out of the Champions League, the Spanish Cup, and fell 12 points behind bitter rivals Barcelona in the domestic league, convinced president Florentino Perez and the Real Madrid board to sack predecessor Santiago Solari. Former Real midfielder Zidane left the club in May after securing the clubʼs third

straight Champions League trophy and it was rumored he would find a new club in the European summer.

But the 46-year-old has surprisingly decided to return to Real Madrid on a contract until 2022. Solari was sacked following two losses to Barcelona within four days, which effectively ended their chances of winning domestic silverware, and a 4-1 defeat at home to Ajax in the Champions League, which saw them crash out of the prestigious tournament 5-3 on aggregate.

For Bayern Munich to beat Liverpool, Robert Lewandowski needs to rise to the occasion

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.

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Robert Lewandowski has been in top goalscoring form, but came up short against Liverpool in the first leg of the Champions League last 16. Bayern Munich need their frontman at his best to keep their European hopes alive.

When it comes to scoring goals, few are better than Robert Lewandowski right now. The Polish striker is currently the top scorer in both the Bundesliga (17 goals) and in the Champions League (8 goals). In Europeʼs top five leagues, only Lionel Messi

has scored more goals (34) in all competitions than the Bayern Munich manʼs 29, and Lewandowski has scored four goals in his last two league appearances.

But his performance against Liverpool in thefirst leg of the Champions League last 16 tieis a reminder of how much he has struggled in the big moments in recent years. In fact, Lewandowski hasnʼt scored a knockout goal in his last 505 minutes of action, since a 5-0 hammering of Besiktas last year.