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Kick-off time: 2pm local, 3pm EDT, 8pm BST, 5am AEST Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Email Scott The great pennant showdown. Spain have managed to pull off a feat previously considered almost impossible, by producing a pennant with an even more boring design than Englands . Not sure what well do should the two teams meet in the final. Maybe just quietly drop this feature. Probably for the best all round. Portugals is rather nice, though! This isnt the one Ronaldo will be handing ov

Tuchel critical of unreliable officiating against Mexico Victory at the Azteca fuels our belief we are here to stay Thomas Tuchel called the standard of refereeing at the World Cup unreliable and erratic as he insisted England are capable of going all the way following their dramatic 3-2 victory against Mexico. Tuchel fumed after his side held on with 10 men at the Azteca stadium on Sunday night, saying that officials across the board have not been up to scratch at the finals tournament. The Ger

Exclusive: Initial figures are yet to be confirmed by DfE, which said schools were at the heart of the celebration About 332,000 fewer children were in school on Monday morning than a week earlier, according to initial figures, as attendance fell after Englands 3-2 World Cup win over Mexico . School registers were down more than three percentage points on last week, after England manager Thomas Tuchel advised parents to write an excuse for school and let them watch . Continue reading...

Impoverished island was already struggling to keep the lights on before the US imposed a blockade in January Cuba on Monday suffered its third nationwide power outage since the start of the year, the state electricity company said. The impoverished island was already struggling to keep the lights on before the US president, Donald Trump, imposed an oil blockade in January, which has depleted the already dwindling supply of fuel for Cubas power plants. Continue reading...

Fans were banned from stage three finish due to fire risk Tour organisers insist stage four goes ahead in 40C heat Tour de France organisers have insisted that Tuesdays fourth stage, from Carcassonne to Foix, will go ahead, despite furnace conditions in southern France and predicted temperatures of over 40C (104F). The 182km stage, scheduled to run through the heat of the afternoon, comes after the Tours third stage to Les Angles was held without the usual publicity caravan and only small number

Crowds swelled through Tehran as mourners dressed in black carried flags proclaiming: We will rise A crowd of millions assembled on Monday for the funeral procession of Irans assassinated supreme leader, Ali Khamenei . The scale and depth of the march, however engineered, represents an extraordinary turnaround for a country that only seven months ago was gripped by street protests at which thousands of people were killed by government security forces. Continue reading...

PM stepped in over proposal to shift World Cup match to an earlier time, amid concerns it would benefit Mexico Keir Starmer intervened through diplomatic channels to oppose Fifas plan to bring forward Englands World Cup game against Mexico, amid concerns the change would hand the hosts an unfair advantage, it is understood. The prime minister instructed officials to argue against proposals to move the kick-off from 1am UK time (6pm local time) to earlier after being alerted by the Football Assoc

After five goals, two penalties and a 4am finish, it was a bleary-eyed start to Monday for pupils and workers So we survived. We made it out the other side. After all the strategising about where, when, if and how we would watch England take their World Cup fight to Mexico, we pulled it off, stepping out bleary eyed into the dawn just about intact. And boy was it worth it. Continue reading...

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