Follow Sportsmail's live blog for all the latest news and updates as England kick-off their World Cup campaign, with Wales also in action this evening against USA.

Philip Weybourne, 40, from West Malling in Kent, was on holiday in the United States with his wife and young son when he suddenly fell ill in May.

The Prime Minister and Chancellor reportedly want to put the UK on the path to a 'Swiss-style' relationship with Brussels to boost trade, but one former cabinet minister has warned against it.

The men, who have travelled to the Middle East to cheer on England, say a chance meeting with 'one of the Sheikh's sons' led to a night wild night before the tournament in Qatar had even begun.

Gary Lineker's opening for BBC 's introduction to the World Cup addressed the human rights record in Qatar immediately. The competition kicked off today after a series of scandals.

The top brass at Caesars Palace were none too pleased with the artist's 'mutiny', according to a close source. Adele is said to be quite satisfied with her two-bedroom suite on the Wynn's golf course.

Thousands of England fans have descended on Qatar and have managed to sniff out £12 pints ahead of the first match of the World Cup.

Mother Amie Walton, 30, was battling terminal cancer when partner Chris Mills died while spending the night in hospital with her. Exactly four weeks later, on August 18, Amie, passed away too.

An illegal Albanian migrant deported after paying £3,500 to be smuggled into the UK by small boat has urged others not to follow in his footsteps.

Residents on the Kirby estate in Bermondsey, London, show their pride during every major tournament by putting  their St George's flags outside their homes.

The shock rise was predicted after analysis of figures published by Treasury watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

A source said: 'There are some very happy people at the top of the BBC. They want the show to be appealing to everyone, so to have such a diverse final would be a dream.'

He was once attacked on stage by a puppet emu, but veteran broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has now delivered a few swipes of his own as his latest book, My Life in Sport, is published.

The 32-year-old has been blasted by acid attack victim Sophie Hall for her recent 'insincere' apology after calling her 'ugly' in leaked voice notes.

Theatre goers are being asked to cover their phones with stickers as former Doctor Who star David Tennant takes to the West End stage wearing a Nazi uniform.

King Charles is said to be displeased that Princess Anne and Prince Edward, along with other members of the Royal Family, were seen together at a shooting party in Windsor last weekend.

Alex Alam, a former model, made a desperate Facetime call to the TOWIE star begging him to come and rescue her children as she feared for her life during the attack this April.

The boy's father said he was astonished after Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) confirmed that the date in the letter was not a typing error.

England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford 's wife Megan was seen smiling as she arrived in Doha, wearing a jumper and accompanied by a toy of her husband in England kit.

On July 6 Boris Johnson heavily hinted that he was considering calling a snap general election in a bid to get re-elected by the public amid attempts by Tory MPs to oust him over the Chris Pincher affair.

Housing chiefs are being paid fat cat salaries while tenants live in squalor, an investigation has found, with some paid three times as much as the Prime Minister.

Steve Barclay told the BBC back-office departments and quangos that cost almost £3billion a year could be merged, and that he also said he wanted to reduce targets in the NHS.

Crucial NHS targets including A&E and ambulance wait times will be missed for years to come, ministers have reportedly admitted. Patients will continue facing record blockages

The event, which has been plagued with controversy over Qatar's treatment of foreign workers, LGBT rights and social restrictions, has been seen as a way of varnishing its image on the world stage.

Heather Hanbury, president of the Girls' Schools Association (GSA), will hail the benefits of traditionally feminine and 'soft power' traits such as empathy, creativity and collaboration.

Parents should resist buying their children a smartphone - and should instead stick to an old-fashioned device without internet access, the Children's Commissioner has advised.

Wheelchair user Elizabeth Hall, 76, was due to be sentenced earlier this month after admitting two breaches of restraining orders.

Europe's largest nuclear plant has been rocked by explosions after repeated shelling ended a 'period of relative calm' at the Russian-controlled site in Ukraine.

Tony Rodd, who was a runner-up in the 2015 edition of Masterchef, claims he was warned his annual gas and electricity bill will likely explode from £20,000 to £80,000.

There has been a Middle Beach cafe in Stuland, Dorset, for more than 100 years but it now faces being bulldozed as part of a controversial 'managed retreat' policy.

Ukraine's forces could be back in Crimea before the new year and the Russian invasion will be over by spring, a senior Kyiv military official has said

Chris Philp (pictured) joked that a recent tip-off to the charity's hotline was about a £200million shipment of cocaine found in a lorry, quipping: 'Michael Gove was quite excited about that.'

Astrit Kullsi, 33, pleaded guilty to intent to supply cannabis after being found with a large quantity of the Class B drug, which had a street value of £16,000 to £28,000, in Warrington on November 2.

Earlier this week the National Crime Agency (NCA) said Albanian criminals are committing 'blatant manipulation' of the UK's modern slavery laws (file pic: Albanians arriving in Tirana, 2017)

Italy's far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called out France and its policy over its former territory Burkina Faso. She suggested country had a policy which saw it taking a huge slice of the money.

Several pupils have been 'sanctioned' according to the school after an investigation into an incident during a speech by former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.

Prince Harry and Prince Andrew face further changes to their roles as the House of Lords will debate a motion that would ban their roles as secretaries of state.

The 16-year-old was part of a group that hurled abuse at the 'very vulnerable' woman before pulling out a ball bearing (BB) gun at which point he 'started to shoot'.

Queen Consort Camilla is urged not to wear the Cullinan diamond during the visit from South Africa's president as it would be a 'most unfortunate' reminder of colonial-era mining.

In one of the longest waits for a rape trial on record, the alleged victim has been told she must now suffer a further postponement until next year.

The extra cost of diesel compared to petrol has reached a new high of nearly 25p per litre, latest Government figures show,

Squadron Leader Arthur Gordon Jones-Williams (pictured) was awarded the Military Cross in July 1917, aged just 18, for attacking 12 German aircraft all at once.

The Prime Minister is seen opening a red box before circling key dates with a black marker - including those of England and Wales games.

FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has been pictured at a family gathering with hair after his bizarre rant yesterday in which he claimed to know how it felt to be discriminated against as he was 'ginger'.

Brexiteer Tory MPs last night reacted with fury to the reports and said it could amount to a 'betrayal' of the freedoms they say were won following the referendum result in 2016.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: US businessman John Bryan - the man at the heart of Sarah Ferguson's 1992 scandal - gave the Duke 'honest advice' as his life fell apart.

Rafe Spall has reportedly split from his wife of 12 years and struck up a romance with his on-screen spouse Esther Smith.

The eye-watering bill was from Salt Bae's restaurant Nusr-Et Steakhouse in Abu Dhabi, with 14 guests paying out 615,065 dirham (£140,584), meaning it cost 43,933 dirham (£10,041) per person.

A 21 November 2019 article headlined "Embarrassing stunts. Shocking misjudgements. And VERY shady friends. Photos that prove Andrew's always been a ….Duke of Hazard"...

Argentinian reporter Dominique Metzger was broadcasting from the Corniche area of Doha in the build up to the first match when she says items from her handbag were stolen.

Harry Kane will not wear the 'OneLove' rainbow armband for England's World Cup opener after the threat of a yellow card proved too much of a risk.

At least 46 people have been killed and 300 injured after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Indonesia's main island of West Java on Monday at 1.31pm local time, near the town of Cianjur.

Football fans blasted BBC pundits' 'absurd hypocrisy' after they launched into tirades about controversies and human rights issue in Qatar, while broadcasting from Doha

A National Parks worker who rescued a baby echidna from floodwaters has had the honour of having the puggle named after him, though there was one slight issue with that.

In a tweet, former England striker Gary Lineker instead blamed Qatari organisers for the TV blunder, saying timings of the spectacle had changed 'very recently'.

It was as if the younger generation had been wiped out by some age-selective plague The scourge ravaging Cerrik, and other Albanian towns, is migration.

A charity stalwart has been snubbed by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews after making a $23million election pledge off the back of her volunteer work. 

A ex-Neighbours star has been charged with sexual assault after a night out at one of Melbourne's most famous seaside pubs.

Jemma Whiteside, 40, (pictured) had been drinking heavily when she grabbed the man's genitals and twerked against his shoulder shortly before kick-off at the Premiership clash in February.

Supporters have already started calling in sick and revealing how they booked the day off months in advance so they can instead spend the afternoon by a TV screen.

The Prime Minister and Chancellor reportedly want to put the UK on the path to a 'Swiss-style' relationship with Brussels to boost trade.

When pressed to justify his decision, Musk pointed to Jones' denial of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, in which 20 children and six adult staff members were gunned down in cold blood

CBI chief Tony Danker said more foreign workers should be brought in to 'plug the gaps' in the labour market.

Ten of the 11 council members at one of Australia's most prestigious - and expensive - private schools have resigned amid a plan to allow girls to be educated there.

Investigators have trawled through a wooded area behind the house where four University of Idaho students were brutally knifed to death last weekend.

Anthony Albanese has accused Peter Dutton of 'dog whistling' to racist voters by complaining about Australia paying poor countries for climate damage loss.

Customers have flocked in their thousands to praise a Queensland Kmart worker who never fails to brighten shoppers' days with the big man being recognised with an award.

Kayla Itsines, 31, sold her digital workout platform to US parent company iFit for $400million last year following a boom in home exercise when gyms and sports centres closed during Covid pandemic.

One of the LA County Sheriff's cadets that was hospitalized after being hit by an SUV while on a training run last Wednesday is now said to be fighting for his life.

The Department of Treasury intends to overhaul the multi-billion dollar industry and bring in tougher regulations for services like Afterpay and Zippay.

The suit, filed in April by Triple J Trucking owner Jerry Johnson, demands the sum returned in full for what he called 'false accusations' by the force, who seized the sum during a stop in 2020.

Pam and Jim Colbert's dog Buddy, a Mini Australian Shepherd, was filleted and skinned on October 21, weeks before four Idaho college students were murdered.

The fans were enthusiastic but they delivered a highly questionable rendition of Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds' 'Three Lions', and were seen to be wearing knock-off England shirts

Jennifer Lima, a North Kingstown School Committee member, is under fire after posting that misgendering children was an act of violence.

Virgin Australia flight attendant Ashlee Rogers filmed her messy plane of after it headed to the Gold Coast the same day thousands of teens kicked off their Schoolies graduation week.

The seemingly sarcastic declaration from Musk, 51, came in the form of a stream of memes made at the expense of the former head of state - and honed in on his recently aired decision, in particular.

Grandfather Keith Simms, who was dubbed the 'Beast of Bondi', is also suspected of at least 19 more depraved attacks from 1985 to 2001, and possibly many more.

One half of TikTok's bizarre 'Age Gap 50' account has been dumped as the chair of a medicinal pot company after gaining viral fame as the 'sugar daddy' partner of a woman 35 years his junior.

Authorities have named Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, as the lone suspect. Aldrich's grandfather is Randy Voepel, a Republican state lawmaker in the California State Assembly.

The Commonwealth Bank, Australia's biggest home lender, has slashed mortgage rates - despite predictions the Reserve Bank will inflict more pain on borrowers in 2022 and 2023 as inflation soars.

Democrat Adam Schiff said in an interview on Sunday morning that under Republican leadership the House of Representatives would be 'chaos'.

The newly-named Café Tabouli, run by Virginia Cheong and her husband has dedicated a new beverage to the Irish celebrity chef aptly named 'The Colin'.

Disney has fired its CEO Bob Chapek following a series of controversies which cratered the firm's share price - and sensationally-replaced him with his retired predecessor Bob Iger.

A distraught mother said she left Hoyts Cinema at a Sydney Westfield in tears after a group of boys yelled racial slurs and made derogatory noises during a screening of Wakanda Forever.

A National Party candidate running in the Victorian election has died five days before voters decide on their next state government.

Labor candidate Lauren O'Dwyer describes herself as a proud Yorta Yorta woman - an Indigenous people who traditionally inhabited an area in the north of modern day Victoria.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and his deputy have come under heavy fire after they accused their Liberal rivals of putting 'Nazis' forward to battle them at this Saturday's state election.

Travis Upright posted a video of himself urinating on Hawaii's sacred Mauna Kea. The imagery angered social media users who called him out online. The Video went viral but has now been removed.

Authorities have issued an urgent warning for millions of Australians as damaging winds of up to 100km/h continue to cause widespread havoc along the east coast. 

Michael Pitt, 41, was pictured looking healthy in New York City this weekend. He appeared to be in a far better place mentally and physically then pictured strapped to a stretcher this summer.

Several students have been injured following at explosion at a public school on Sydney's northern beaches.

Mark Latham has unexpectedly taken aim at Australian TV Host Lucy Zelić over her comments about the Qatar World Cup hours before the ceremony.

Seth Edwards Perrin, 18, was a passenger in the Holden Commodore when it crashed into a tree at Cammeray, on Sydney's lower north shore, on November 13.

The Angry Victorians Party member blamed dyslexia for making her choose words clumsily after she told a crowd of protesters she wanted to see Premier Daniel Andrews turned into 'red mist'.

Sterling Báez, the wife of a Bronx principal, is accused of helping scam her husband's teachers who are recruited from the Dominican Republic.

A controversial Harvard scientist says he is launching an expedition to retrieve a meteor that he believes is actually alien technology lying at the bottom of Pacific Ocean.

EXCLUSIVE: Three teenagers including two 14-year-olds have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 17-year-old boy in a Cambridge nature reserve on Saturday afternoon

After hearing an urgent application in the Court of Protection while the man was in a coma, Mr Justice Poole ruled that the procedure would be an 'invasion of his privacy', the Times reported.

Elon Musk announced in a tweet on Friday that under his ownership Twitter would not allow the defamed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back on the platform.

In a press conference held Sunday afternoon, police in Idaho said they still have no promising leads a week after four University of Idaho students were found brutally murdered.

Lawrence Rangiwai, 73, was beaten, choked and pushed by Stella Maru, 26, at their home in Gisborne, on New Zealand's North Island, on August 8, 2021.

The sports presenter's four-bedroom home in Coogee, in Sydney's eastern suburbs, will go to auction this Saturday with a price guide of $5.4million.

Sir Keir Starmer has been branded hypocritical for vowing to abolish the House of Lords soon after nominating a controversial Labour bigwig for a peerage.

Australia's east coast continues to be smashed by extreme weather with everything from sub-zero temperatures and snow to severe heatwave conditions.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price argued Welcome to Country ceremonies are a 'symbolic' gesture made by a government which fails to deliver outcomes for First Nations people.

A mum who stabbed to death her three young children inside their home lost her mind during Victoria's hard lockdowns. 

Salt Bae has courted controversy once again after posting a video of a 24 karat gold leaf-covered steak on Instagram. It comes after he posted one party's £140,000 bill in Abu Dhabi

Those with family in Melbourne's Box Hill Hospital have complained about new restrictions at the facility as infections rise in Victoria.

A train commuter has gone for gold for gross behaviour on public transport after he was caught taking his shoes and socks off and putting his bare feet on a seat before patting his sock. 

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia said that former President Donald Trump was right about TikTok and warned for parents to keep their kids off the social media app.

Actor Jason David Frank, who played the Green Power Ranger in the 1990s, is believed to have committed suicide at the age of 49.

The victim's family said naval leadership failed to take any action over the claims in 2020 because the incident occurred 'off base', and instead told him to report it to the police.

The Sunrise host clashed with federal environment minister over electricity prices as Labor celebrates the six month anniversary since its election win

Surveillance footage revealed a man that plowed a brick at the window of the Manhattan bar VERS in Hell's Kitchen while people were sitting inside.

Forensics specialist Joseph Scott Morgan is comparing the murders at the University of Idaho to the 'Gainesville Ripper' from 1990 whose crimes inspired the 'Scream' franchise.

One of the two men accused of planning attacks on New York City synagogues allegedly told investigators that he runs an online white supremacist group and owns Nazi memorabilia.

When Mick Thompson walks around his North Devon farm, it's the silence that gets to him. At the start of the year there were 8,000 free-range hens clucking, pecking and scratching away.

Abid and Aeisha Shah, 60 and 49, were arrested at their $4million home in Denham Court, in Sydney's west, on November 11 last year and charged with human trafficking and slavery.

A woman has died after an alleged stabbing in a Perth hotel, with guests stopped from returning to their rooms while arriving guests were not allowed to check in.

Locals aren't happy about the state the Gold Coast main street, Cavill Avenue, was left in after the first night of celebrations, despite Schoolies being called the best behaved group possibly ever.

The parents of Idaho murder victim Kaylee Goncalves say her ex-boyfriend, Jack DeCoeur, is innocent after it was revealed she called him 7 times before her death.

Colombian singer Maluma, who sings on the World Cup's official anthem, stormed out of an Israeli TV interview after being accused of 'whitewashing' human rights abuses in Qatar.

Rosenstein said that the Department of Justice's (DOJ) appointment of a special counsel to handle Trump investigations suggest Merrick Garland believes there is a 'viable potential case.'

A judge on Friday scoffed at Jen Psaki's request for him to quash a subpoena for her testimony in a case alleging the Biden administration conspired to silence conservative voices on social media.

A father from Hull is stuck in a hospital in Thailand and facing the amputation of a leg after a suspected scorpion sting. Alan Stephenson, 73, was injured while on holiday in South-East Asia

Nicholas Grasby, 42, bombarded married City bigwig Justine Gallen with abusive messages after she left the £3,640-a-week facility to return to her family.

A young man lying on subway tracks in Manhattan on Sunday was struck and killed by a train, hours before a second victim was also struck in midtown.

A teen is dead and five other people were injured injured in the horror highway crash at Gladfield near Warwick in Queensland's Southern Downs region.

Parents are outraged after finding out a California elementary school is allowing an 'After School Satan Club' on campus where there are children as young as five years old.

Pregnancy termination laws have remained unchanged for almost 25 years, forcing some women to travel interstate to access care in the Australian state.

The bakery giant, which has more than 2,000 stores across the UK, is opening its new branch in Truro next month nearly three years after its first move into the county ended prematurely.

From endangering one of Australia's biggest rape trials to battling backlash from her bombshell tell-all memoir, Lisa Wilkinson has reflected on some highlights and lowlights as she exits The Project.

Pelosi marked Transgender Remembrance Day by tearing into MAGA GOP and implicating them in the Colorado LBGTQ night club shooting that left five dead.

Governor Ron DeSantis is slammed by a Biden-appointed board of education official as being a 'mini-Donald Trump' and 'man child.'

GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy over the weekend vowed to remove Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee  over 'antisemitism' if he's elected speaker.

The celebrated English author, who was dogged by mental illness throughout her life, drowned herself in the River Ouse near her Sussex home in 1941, aged 59.

Emergency services were called to the horrific scenes on a stretch of the M6 near Preston in Lancashire at around 5.50pm yesterday evening.

Viewers in Britain missed out on much of the glitzy spectacle at the Al Bayt stadium in Doha, Qatar because BBC were late to broadcast the show by 20 minutes

A yellow weather warning for wind is in place covering areas of the south west England and southern Wales between 6am and 6pm on Monday, with gusts of 55mph to 65mph on land.

A gang of teenagers who committed 100 crimes including car jackings and house-break ins in Birmingham have been brought to justice after a video showed their chilling assault on a car owner.

Robert F. Kennedy's daughter has revealed she'll honor Prince Harry and Meghan for their 'heroic' stance against the 'structural racism' of the royal family at a NYC gala in her father's honor.

The London constituencies of Brent North and East Ham both had twice as many claimants last month than before the pandemic.

US actor Morgan Freeman starred alongside Qatari YouTuber and philanthropist Ghanim Al Muftah, 20, at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

Demand for wood-burning stoves has surged as Brits hope to cut down their soaring energy bills. Retailers are reporting a shortage and manufacturers are struggling to keep up.

Former President Trump told the Republican Jewish Coalition over the weekend that American Jews don't appreciate Israel enough.

New footage of a Russian convict who was sentenced last year for 16 years after murdering his wife suggests Putin is now releasing prisoners to boost his war effort in Ukraine

Despite his reinstatement to short form social posting platform Twitter, former President Donald Trump said he doesn't 'see any reason' to rejoin the platform.

Downing Street insisted it is 'categorically untrue' that it wants to emulate Switzerland's relationship with the bloc over the next decade.

Greg Coffey has been given permission to build the 'essential' accommodation four miles away from his hotel and golf course on the Isle of Jura in the Inner Hebrides off the coast of Scotland.

Mourners paid tribute to firefighter Michael Burke, who served for 30 years and died last month aged 80, with a procession through Beckenham led by the vintage fire engine he trained on in the 1960s.