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England set up clash with Senegal in the knockout phase courtesy of second-half brace by Marcus Rashford. Foden celebrates after scoring his side’s second goal England have advanced to the World Cup’s last 16 with a dominant 3-0 victory over Wales, sending their neighbours out of the tournament in the process. Marcus Rashford’s second-half brace at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on Tuesday evening guaranteed Gareth Southgate’s side will face Senegal in the knockout phase on Sunday. Rashford’s goals came either side of a Phil Foden tap-in engineered by England captain Harry Kane, who is still yet to score in Qatar but now leads the tournament’s assists chart on three. Wales, who have not beaten England since 1984, needed an unlikely four-goal victory to get out of Group B and reach the knockout rounds. They defended deeply and frustrated England in a subdued first half. But they caved in after the break as Gareth Southgate’s side took their goals tally in the group to nine. Rashford began ...

Bill was standing with a group of people mostly in their 20s when a young woman started to lead the chanting. “Give me liberty, or give me death,” she shouted, her voice cracking at one point. Political security' is a key concern of China's leadership and security services [Thomas Peter/Reuters] Others followed her lead, repeating the chant, and raising sheets of blank paper, a defining symbol of the latest wave of protests in China. “I had tears in my eyes,” said Bill, a 24-year-old graduate student in Chengdu who, like all the other people interviewed for this story, asked to be identified by a pseudonym for fear of retribution. “Hearing those people chanting these words, in China of all the places, makes me feel that I have never been alone.” “If all of us can be this brave, then this country will still have hope,” he added. In a rare nationwide display of defiance, protests calling for an end to China’s harsh zero-COVID policy erupted over the weekend in several major citie...

Geeta Poduval Geeta Poduval is a social entrepreneur, motivational speaker, counselor, and activist for differently-abled people. She is the Founder-Director of DRZYA,[1] a firm that brings differently-abled and unique performances, talks, and workshops from across the world on one platform. Through DRZYA, she scouts for talent among the specially-abled trains them, and provides them a platform to perform and earn a livelihood. She is also the Founder-Trustee of Drzyashakti Trust, an NGO for the services of differently-abled people. In the past, she has been a film and TV actress, anchor, and CAG Senior Audit Officer (Comptroller and Auditor General - India's national and state audit authority). The two notable films to her credit are Sukumarji's Kandethal[2] (Malayalam) and Madhu Kaithapram's Vellivelichathil (Malayalam). Read more on..