His win was portrayed around the world as a victory by the son of a bus driver over the son of a billionaire.

Sadiq Khan has been named the new mayor of London – the EU's biggest city, home to 8.5 million people.

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He will be responsible for a £17 billion budget charged with overseeing how transport, police, and fire services are run, building affordable homes, and promoting London's economy.

Until the campaign of Zac Goldsmith, the Tory candidate, called Khan a "radical" and linked him to extremists, faith and race hadn't been the major issue in the London campaign.

But this is how most European and US news organisations around the world covered the Labour MP's victory:

In France Metro News said Khan was the son of immigrants.

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The French paper told a story of David vs Goliath, of how Khan is a "Muslim son of a Pakistani immigrant" and the "image of London's cosmopolitanism", and is succeeding the "troublemaker" Boris Johnson. The piece also goes into the accusations against Khan penned in Goldsmith's Mail on Sunday article published the weekend before the vote.

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