How world media react to Biden win

After four days of nail-biting suspense over the outcome of the election Joe Biden became the President-elect of the United States. The final announcement of the much delayed poll results came late Saturday. Media all over the world including US , published the news in a big way. Most US media outlets kept it simple with headlines like 'Biden Beats Trump', 'Biden Wins', 'Biden Defeats Trump' and 'God Bless America', followed by other outlets across the world. Media networks which had been sharply critical of Trump, were muted, almost solemn, in the announcement of Biden's win.

'A new dawn for America', was the headline of The Independent in the United Kingdom, showing a photo of Biden standing next to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and noting her historic achievement. The Sunday Times wrote 'Sleepy Joe wakes up America', taunting Trump by using the derogatory nickname he had used for Biden. Germany's Bild newspaper carried a photo of Trump with a headline, 'Exit without dignity'. 'What a liberation, what a relief', reported Germany's left-leaning Suddeutsche Zeitung broadsheet.

The Australian the Daily Telegraph tabloid also focused on Trump's expected defiance and described him as a "hot ball of fury". "(Trump) will simply not accept the humiliation of seemingly being beaten by a foe he perceived to be feeble and barely worth turning up to fight," it said. ebloid is owned by Ruport Murdoch. Brazil's leading media outlets reported Trump's defeat in the context of its own populist leader, Jair Bolsonaro, who has similarly sought to diminish democratic institutions and reject science-based facts."Trump's defeat punishes the attacks against civilisation, it is a lesson for Bolsonaro," wrote Folha de Sao Paulo, one of Brazil's major daily newspapers.

Spain's centre-right El Mundo newspaper said Biden's was a "goodbye to Trump's populism". Sweden's biggest daily, Dagens Nyheter, headlined its opinion-editorial piece, "Bittersweet victory - Biden will struggle to heal the US." It described Biden's vow of a return to normalcy as "mission impossible". "The election result shows a deeply divided country, and it will be difficult for Biden to carry out the reform programme he has promised his core voters," the paper wrote. Sweden's conservative Svenska Dagbladet daily warned of the dangers posed by the many millions of Americans who will continue to believe Trump's dangerous rhetoric that the election had been stolen from him. "Election is over - but conflict continues," read its headline.

The international press also focused on the feat of Kamala Harris, Biden's running mate who will become the United States' first female black Vice President-elect. A daily described Harris as a "symbol of renewal". MSNBC described Harris's success as "a crack in the ceiling". The history-making rise of a daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants was also the focus of articles published online

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