There had been speculation the time could change

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England’s World Cup last-16 game against Mexico will kick-off as scheduled at 6pm local time on Sunday (1am on Monday, UK time) after further discussions, it is being reported.

The start of the clash at the Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, was scheduled for 1am UK time, with the government announcing pubs would be allowed to stay open for the match.

However there was speculation on Friday night that the match could be moved to a 7pm UK kick off time due to weather conditions.

FIFA sources indicated no decision was taken to reschedule and the relevant stakeholders will continue monitoring relevant factors.

Under safety rules, games face an automatic 30-minute delay if lightning strikes within eight miles of the stadium, with the clock resetting each time there is a new strike.

FIFA’s World Cup regulations say the governing body has “the right to cancel, reschedule or relocate one or more matches…for any reason at its sole discretion, including as a result of force majeure or due to health, safety or security concerns”.

England playmaker Morgan Rogers said of any potential change: “It’s just another obstacle to overcome. We’ll be ready regardless of the time.

“I’m not concerned about it, but won’t be happy if it wakes me up, I’ll be honest. We’ll deal with it as best as possible. It’s another obstacle to get over.”

England team-mate Marcus Rashford also downplayed the impact of a potential kick-off change.

“I think for us it’s the same, how we prepare for the game,” the forward said. “It has to be the same, we have to be focused, we have to be ready for anything.

“I think it’s one strength of the group, everyone included, the players, the staff, we’re ready for whatever challenges get thrown at us. Obviously it’s not ideal, but also it doesn’t matter.”

The prospect of the fixture time moving shocked former England right-back and coach Gary Neville.

“For our players it’s worse, it’s a sporting disadvantage to England,” he said on ITV. “There’s a sporting integrity issue here as well because I’ve never seen a League Two game moved, I’ve never seen a Sunday League game moved.

“FIFA are just willy nilly making it up and moving a game. It just feels a little bit sort of strange.”

A kick-off alteration would only add to what England boss Tuchel knew would be “a lot, a lot, a lot of obstacles” awaiting them in Mexico.

An intimidating atmosphere awaits at the Azteca, while the visitors are braced for hostility outside the team hotel.

But altitude could be the biggest challenge, with the match taking place more than 2,000 metres above sea level.

Tuchel said: “My understanding is that we cannot adapt to the altitude.

“That is just a huge advantage that Mexico will have. It just takes too much time.

“We have only three days in between (the last-32 win over DR Congo and the Mexico game). This is physically just not possible to adapt to the altitude, which is quite high.

“We knew that before, so this is just something, it’s just a disadvantage, with which we will have to deal.”

This is breaking story. We will bring you an update when one becomes available.

Three people have reportedly been shot with two said to be dead at a shopping centre

Two people have reportedly tragically died at a shopping centre in Michigan, US, following the outbreak of a fight, police have said.

Cops descended on the Fairlane Town Center mall in Dearborn, Michigan, at around 2pm today which was packed with families visiting the shops in anticipation of the July 4 holiday weekend.

Emergency services swarmed the scene to reports of gunshots as police cordoned off the mall near Evergreen Road and Michigan Avenue.

Video footage show people running in terror as gunshots could be heard while shutters where pulled down at stores, reports The Mirror.

Now an officer from Dearborn Police has confirmed there were “three gunshot victims and two have passed away”. One person died at the scene and another succumbed to injuries at hospital.

At a press conference the officer said: “Our investigation is at a preliminary stage, but it appears that this was not a random act of violence, it seems to have been between two parties who knew each other at the mall.

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“A fight began to escalate leading to gunfire, it appears both parties had firearms. We have a number of them at the station and we are interviewing them.”

Earlier a statement from Dearborn Police read: “This is an active and ongoing investigation. We are asking residents and visitors to avoid the area while officers secure the scene and investigators conduct their work.”

“Please stay clear of Fairlane Mall while police secure and investigate this incident,” Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said in a statement on Facebook.

Gabrielle, who owns a store in the shopping mall says how she suddenly heard shooting and the stores were put into lockdown. “It seemed like it would be a nice day, the parking lot was fuller than normal with people,” she told Fox 2 Detroit.

“I had two young woman in the store so we herded them up when we heard the shots, we closed the gate, and went into the backroom.

“I heard three loud noises, people running, then a couple mores shots it may have been five or six, it was so sudden, my store is tucked away in the corner so I couldn’t see what was happening it was just the noises.”

Another woman who was at the shopping mall at the time with her daughter said: “It’s sad, it is really sad, I’m praying for the families because there were kids in the mall they will have seen what happened.”

While a further shopper, Weston Fantroy, said that he was buying a birthday present for his daughter when he heard what sounded like four or five gunshots and saw people panicking so he ran out of the shopping centre.

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The MoJ consultation also proposes stronger financial rights for co-habiting couples if they separate, with couples deemed to qualify if they have been living together for at least three years or have a child together.

The rights would not be as extensive as for married couples and are not about sharing resources, says Edwards. Instead, a partner could be awarded a lump sum, transfer of property or pension share – but only if it were needed to meet basic needs, she says.

Edwards believes the proposed changes would be “transformational” for people experiencing domestic violence or coercive and controlling behaviour, who may otherwise be unable to afford to leave a relationship.

“We’re really pleased to see this consultation,” says Sam Smethers, CEO of the charity Surviving Economic Abuse, which has been campaigning for a reform to co-habiting laws.

Under the current system, people in co-habiting relationships who experience economic abuse must “walk away from their home, their savings, their financial security, just to escape the abuse”, she says. Legal routes for them to get access to their property after a separation are “very expensive and difficult to pursue” and they aren’t often successful in making their claims, she says.

Couples would be able to mutually opt out of the proposed new rights, as long as they meet certain safeguards, which could include getting independent legal advice and disclosing their financial situation to their partner.

Edwards says she thinks an opt-out system is the right way forward. “Too many people at present find out only too late that they have no rights at the end of a relationship,” she says.

Some critics of the proposals say they chose not to marry because they wanted to keep finances totally separate. “That was a conscious decision,” one person wrote on Mumsnet, external. “An opt-out scheme just reverses that default and makes us go through hoops to preserve it.”

Others say there are issues not covered by current proposals that they would like the government to address. Selina Flavius, from the charity Widowed and Young, says that after her fiance died, she would have liked the legal entitlement to have been involved in his funeral planning, as well as bereavement support payments.

The gathering was originally planned for Northallerton but was moved to Pavilions within the Great Yorkshire Showground to accommodate higher-than-expected demand, Tory chiefs said.

Yorkshire Conservatives regional chair and North Yorkshire councillor George Jabbour said: “Hosting such a successful event has been a thrilling experience.”

He added: “The demand to attend the lunch with our party leader was so high that we had to move the venue from Northallerton to Harrogate so we can accept as many requests as possible.”

Mr Jabbour said that even after moving to a larger venue, there was still strong interest, stating: “Even with this much larger venue, we had a long waiting list. It just goes to show how interested people are in listening to what the most popular Party Leader in Britain has to say.”

Conservative officials said the turnout was a sign of enthusiasm among members ahead of a key election year.

Ms Badenoch outlined priorities for both local and national government during the event.

Conservative-run North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire councils are due to face all-out elections in May 2027.

Voters in parts of West and South Yorkshire will also go to the polls at the same time.

Pain is one of the few things all of us experience, from stubbing a toe to waking up with an aching back; we can all relate to the feeling of being in pain.

Although pain is a universal experience, the way we understand it has changed dramatically over time.

Ancient societies might have blamed pain on demons entering the body through the nose or ears, but we now know pain to be more about nerve endings and biology.

Cures have also moved on a lot. While our ancestors may have tried to sneeze, vomit, or even urinate out their pain, these days we’re much more likely to take medications to ease our suffering.

Strange as these ancient “treatments” sound today, they do reveal something important about pain: that it’s never just a physical sensation. Because throughout history, culture, religion and social beliefs have shaped how people talk about and respond to suffering — and many of those ideas still influence us to this day.

Indeed, after more than 30 years studying pain, one thing has become clear to me: while pain is universal, our experience of it is anything but.

Ancient pain

To understand the roots of how we think about pain today, it helps to go back and see how earlier cultures made sense of it.

In many ancient cultures, for example, people believed pain was caused by external forces. Treatments relied on occult rituals, amulets, or trying to drain “bewitched” fluids from the body to expel such forces.

The ancient Egyptians believed that if you hadn’t obviously hurt yourself (so no broken bones, no visible wound), then clearly something more sinister was at play. This could be the gods or perhaps a wandering spirit of death, which had decided to pay your body an unwelcome visit.

Others tried to explain pain in more bodily, rather than spiritual, terms. The ancient Greeks, including physicians like Hippocrates, believed pain and disease arose when the body’s “four humours” — blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile — fell out of balance. Healers would use plant and animal remedies to try to restore harmony.

Moral judgement

By the middle ages, pain had taken on a moral and religious meaning.

Across Europe, convents and monasteries often served as early hospitals and had access to powerful pain-relieving substances such as opium. Yet pain was not always treated.

This is because many Christians believed suffering to be a test of faith, while others saw it as a path to spiritual purification.

As a result, enduring pain was viewed as virtuous. So rather than seeking relief, sufferers were often encouraged to bear their discomfort with patience and devotion.

Echoes of these beliefs can still be seen today. For example, some women choose to go without pain relief during childbirth because of the idea that labour pain is a meaningful or a necessary part of the experience.

Toughing it out

Indeed, the idea that suffering should be endured hasn’t disappeared as religion’s influence has waned. In many societies, it has simply found a new home in philosophy.

If you’ve ever felt pressure to “tough it out” when you’re ill or injured, you may recognise the influence of stoicism. At its core is the idea that we cannot always control pain, but we can control how we respond to it.

In many parts of the world, to this day, enduring pain quietly can be seen as a sign of resilience and self-control, with people often encouraged to minimise their discomfort and avoid making a fuss. This is despite the fact that vocalisations of pain are a common way for humans to bond, with research showing that human exclamations of pain are similar across the world.

So whether you like to express your pain or keep it on the down low, one thing is certain: the way we think about and even feel our pain has been directly influenced by human history.

And although most of us no longer blame demons or divine punishment for our aches and illnesses, we are still, in many ways, just trying to make sense of our suffering — much in the same way as our ancestors did.

This article was commissioned as part of a partnership between The Conversation and Videnskab.dk where articles are also published in Danish.

Taylor Swift‘s best friend Gigi Hadid showed her appreciation for boyfriend Bradley Cooper’s look as they headed to the singer’s wedding celebration in NYC on Friday.

The supermodel, 31, dazzled in a pink shimmering dress as she left for Swift and fiancé Travis Kelce‘s enormous bonanza at Madison Square Garden with her actor partner.

Cooper, 51, looked dashing in a fitted black suit and bow tie, as an admiring Hadid shot him the look of love as he climbed into a car.

Hours earlier, a vehicle believed to be carrying Swift was seen heading off from her home and arriving at Hadid’s residence – fueling rumors the pop star was getting ready for her big day with her closest friends.

Swift and Kelce, both 36, partied late into the night on Thursday for their ‘rehearsal dinner’ at Infosys Theater with 100 of their closest friends, including Hadid, Cooper, Selena Gomez and Jack Antonoff.

Their marriage was confirmed by a representative on Friday evening in a statement which read, ‘The bride and groom’s wedding ceremony looks have been created by Christian Dior Haute Couture. 

Cooper looked dashing in a fitted black suit and bow tie

Their marriage was confirmed by a representative on Friday evening in a statement. Above, the couple in March

‘They are designed by Jonathan Anderson, Creative Director of Dior Women’s, Men’s and Haute Couture Collections, in close collaboration with the Bride and Groom. This is the designer’s first couture wedding dress for a world-renowned celebrity. Their shoes were custom made by Christian Louboutin and the bride wore Cartier jewelry.

‘Taylor & Travis did not have bridesmaids or groomsmen. Instead, her brother Austin Swift served as Taylor’s Man of Honor and Jason Kelce was Travis’ Best Man. The ceremony joined both families together and was officiated by friend Adam Sandler.’

Industry experts claim the nuptials cost over $15 million, including the venue, security, insurance, permits, catering, and decorations to transform the venue into their fairytale wedding.

Taxpayers contributed over $1 million to pay for the couple’s NYPD security detail patrolling MSG, which banned the press from getting too close and threatened to arrest anyone who did not comply with street-closure rules on Thursday.

A few glimpses of the interior were visible. Pink, orange and yellow roses were photographed woven into foliage at the top of an escalator.

Crews are now working feverishly to turn around the decor for night two of the festivities. 

Hadid also shared glimpses of her glam look for Thursday night’s festivities.  

Her hairdresser, Dimitris Giannetos, shared new photos on Instagram of the recent cut and style he had done for the star. 

The pictures showed Hadid sporting gorgeous, bouncy layers that framed her face, the length hitting just below her shoulders.

Hadid was snapped showing off her new hair while wearing a blue T-shirt, glowing makeup, and a stunning mauve lip color.

A glimpse of Hadid’s shimmering pink wedding look was visible as she shot her partner a smitten look

Hadid also shared glimpses of her glam look for Thursday night’s festivities

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Hadid’s hairdresser, Dimitris Giannetos, shared new photos on Instagram of the recent cut and style he had done for the star

He also shared insight into how he perfected the look, detailing that he used a round brush to achieve the shape

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles also shared a peek into her getting-ready process, as she took to Instagram on Friday afternoon to share the glam setup at her hotel

Her golden locks looked voluminous, as Giannetos called the style ‘love layers.’

‘I wanted to create the updated version of the C-cut this evening [giving] Gigi some Love Layers (aka heart shape layers)!’ he wrote in the caption.

‘A bit more lift on the roots and the first layers start hitting a little below the chin ’till the tips of the hair! It creates basically an illusion of heart shape layers! Volume on the top and more narrow at the bottom!’

‘In this case you can create an illusion of contour with the haircut so the face looks more structure! Always this haircut looks good [with] a mid part!’ he added.

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles also shared a peek into her getting-ready process, as she took to Instagram on Friday afternoon to reveal the glam setup at her hotel.

She posted a table with tons of makeup products on it, which included powders from Huda Beauty and Makeup by Mario.

The star, who is married to NFL player Jonathan Owens, also tagged hairstylist Justin Revenge and makeup artist Deja Blackwell in the snap. 

By JANE HERZ, US SENIOR LIFESTYLE REPORTER and RAVEN SAUNT, US LIFESTYLE EDITOR

Updated: 01:41 BST, 4 July 2026

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s big weekend has arrived – and of the 1,000 guests who were invited for celebrations on Friday night, some have committed some serious fashion faux pas.

Stars have descended on Madison Square Garden in New York City in their droves on Friday for what’s said to be the biggest celebration of the extravagant weekend.

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It has been said that Swift and her NFL star fiancé, both 36, are going all out for the occasion, with rumors of a castle being built at the venue and whispers that the bride bought every available calla lily flower in New York City.

Madison Square Garden lit up with pink neon signs that read ‘JUST&T MARRIED!’ as Taylor Swift’s publicist sent an email blast confirming the pop star exchanged vows with NFL star Travis Kelce at 7.30pm on Friday. 

City permits suggest the extravaganza could go on until 4am. 

Many famous faces were already seen at Thursday’s celebration, including Selena Gomez, Jack Antonoff, and NFL star George Kittle, as they joined the stars for an intimate gathering at the Infosys Theater at MSG. 

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And on Friday, many of the guests returned, plus almost 900 others, to celebrate the couple.

While some guests pulled out their best outfits for the wedding of the year, others totally missed the mark, with some truly bizarre outfits and outrageous looks. 

Here, the Daily Mail has rounded up the biggest fashion mistakes from the couple’s large Friday celebration. 

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Clashing colors! Ed Sheeran stood out in a bright turquoise silk suit with a paisley pattern. The singer wore a white T-shirt underneath and accessorized with black Nike sneakers, including a matching turquoise ‘swoosh’ on the side. His wife, Cherry Seaborn, opted for a bright yellow, silky, curve-hugging gown that also appeared to have a paisley pattern. She paired the high-neck dress with bedazzled sky-high heels, a diamond necklace and dangling diamond earrings

Red for a wedding?! Singer Camilla Cabello headed out wearing a bright red, sheer lace dress with off-the-shoulder detailing and a deep V-cut. She paired the look with a black choker that had a large cross hanging off of it and styled her hair in a bouncy blowout 

Fashion statement or faux pas? Songwriter Jack Antonoff arrived on Friday in an oversized black suit complete with a large black bowtie. His pants had a leather-stripe detail going down the leg. He brought his look together with a pair of black loafers that appeared to have gold buckles at the front of the foot

Fall colors for a summer wedding? Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford and his wife, Kelly, wore coordinating looks for the big night. Stafford stepped out in a dark green suit jacket with black detailing around the collar, slim-fitting black trousers and a black bowtie. He topped off his look with black patent leather shoes. Kelly matched him in a light green, one-shouldered ruched dress, pairing the look with silver accessories. The mom-of-four wore metallic silver heels and a big diamond necklace around her neck 

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Clashing textures! Singer Fergie headed off for the night in a glittering, bedazzled gold dress and an over-the-top black fur wrap with round baubles dangling off the ends. She paired the look with a pair of black peep-toe heels and wore her hair in her signature curls 

Mismatched! Former NFL player Beau Allen looked like he had a lot going on as he got ready for the big bash on Friday. He wore a gold pinstriped suit jacket, paired with tailored black pants and a black bowtie. He accessorized with gold jewelry, including a bright gold watch and a gold pinky ring. Allen finished his look by tying his hair in a slick-back man bun

The VMAs or Taylor Swift’s wedding? Fashion designer Kristin Juszczyk, who is married to San Francisco 49ers player Kyle Juszczyk, looked like she was headed to a different event entirely as she sported a dress with a tight blue corset-style top and black bubble skirt. She paired her look with tons of diamond necklaces, a black satin clutch and black peep-toe heels 

Feeling blue! Glennon Doyle looked like an ice princess as she wore a baby blue bedazzled gown with silver sparkles embroidered on it. She paired the look with metallic silver heels, a white clutch bag and diamond tennis necklace

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Good as gold? Dr Mariel Bird looked a bit over-the-top in a glittering gold dress, which featured sculptural rose detailing at the bust, along with a cutout. She paired the look with bedazzled silver heels, a gold clutch and wore her hair in a half-up, half-down style 

Traffic was brought to a standstill on Royston Road after demonstrators gathered following an alleged sexual assault in the area.

A busy Glasgow road was temporarily blocked by protesters on Friday evening following the arrest and court appearance of a man charged in connection with an alleged sexual assault in the area.

A crowd gathered outside Royston Library before marching to Royston Road, where demonstrators blocked traffic for around 30 minutes.

Police diverted vehicles while the road remained closed near the M8 on-slip before officers negotiated with protesters to move further along the road, allowing traffic to resume shortly after 7pm.

Videos and pictures shared on social media showed protesters in front of police vehicles while chanting slogans including “Enough is enough” outside a property.

Posts shared online by people attending the demonstration described it as a “peaceful protest” organised to express concerns about the safety of women and children in the area.

One social media post read: “The Royston community took to the streets to say enough is enough as they expressed their concerns about the safety of women and children.”

However, footage from the scene appeared to show a smashed window at a property in Royston Square.

The Glasgow Times reported that one unidentified person threw the brick before others attempted to access the front door of the property but were stopped by police.

The demonstration follows the arrest and charging of 40-year-old Mohamed Raouf Mezahdi in connection with an alleged sexual assault in the Royston area.

He appeared in private at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday, July 2, where he made no plea.

Police Scotland has been contacted for comment.

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