England, who are in Group L, will begin their tournament against Croatia in Dallas at 4pm EST (9pm BST) on 17 June. They will then go on to face Ghana in Boston at 4pm EST (9pm BST) on 23 June and Panama at the Met Life Stadium in New Jersey at 5pm EST (10pm BST) on 27 June.

Scotland are in Group C, and their first match will be against Haiti in Boston at 9pm EST on 13 June (2am BST 14 June).

They will go up against Morocco also in Boston at 6pm EST (11pm BST) on 19 June and then Brazil in Miami at 6pm EST (11pm BST) on 24 June.

Fans are expected to rush to sort their travel and accommodation plans now that they know where and when the matches take place.

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Wales and Northern Ireland have yet to find out if they will qualify.

Wales must face a play-off against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Cardiff, then either Italy or Northern Ireland, if they are victorious.

If they beat these play-off opponents, they will secure their place in Group B alongside Canada, Qatar and Switzerland.

The World Cup final will be a 3pm EST (8pm BST) kick-off in New Jersey, New York, on 19 July.

However, Northern Ireland will also be vying to guarantee their spot in the same group if they can beat Italy and then either Wales or Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A new strain of the flu virus is believed to be much more infectious than previous strains and has already led to a record number of patients needing urgent hospital care.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it is seeing the flu among younger patients and fears the virus will now spread to older, more vulnerable patients.

Dr Jamie Lopez Berbnal, consultant epidemiologist at the UKHSA, told Sky News: "The new strain circulating has evolved a bit more rapidly than normal.

"And that could mean that there's a bit less immunity in the population from what we normally see in a flu season.

"And that could mean that the flu virus spreads a bit more than usual. And that's something that we've started to see already, in particular in children and young adults.

"But we're now starting to see flu take out a bit more in older adults, who tend to be more vulnerable to flu as well."

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More than 17 million flu jabs have been administered in England so far. But that's not enough.

Flu season has come early and hit harder. A mutated, stronger strain of the virus is driving this wave and the peak is nowhere in sight.

The NHS said that unlike a cold, flu symptoms can come on very quickly and can include a sudden high temperature that appears within a few hours.

With a cold, a high temperature would appear gradually.

Flu can cause a headache, dry cough and aching body - while a cold mainly affects your nose and throat.

And flu can leave you feeling too exhausted to carry on as normal - unlike a cold, which leaves you feeling tired. In children, flu symptoms can include an earache and a drop in energy.

Professor Julian Redhead, national director for urgent care for NHS England, said this flu season would be a "big challenge" for the health service.

"I think it's going to be a big challenge for us as we go forward because it just increases the pressure.

"I mean, at the moment we've got around, say 1,500, maybe 2,000 patients in hospital with flu and the predictions are that it will rise to somewhere between 5,000 and 8,000.

"So you can see the pressure that will be put on the system will be very large and that's why we're concerned."

Professor Redhead also warned people not to underestimate the virus. Even for normally healthy people the effects of flu could be quite serious.

He said: "Anyone can be at risk of severe flu and it does carry complications, which people won't necessarily recognise because it can affect the heart and lungs and things like this.

"Clearly, it's the most vulnerable population that we're really worried about and what happens for them, is they can get bacterial infections on top of the flu and end up with things like pneumonia, which can be really, really serious.

"And we see patients going into ITU in these circumstances every year and that puts pressure into the ITU systems as well.

"So yes, it can be dangerous. It is mainly the very old and very young, where we see the complications.

"But remember that the increase at the moment is very much in the younger population and the danger is it then transmits into the older, more vulnerable population and that's what we want to try to prevent."

Jean-Pierre Lihou, 61, was initially friends with the Reform UK leader when he arrived at Dulwich College in the 1970s, at the time when Mr Farage is accused of saying antisemitic and other racist remarks by more than a dozen pupils.

But Mr Lihou, who is half-German and said he went for a couple of sleepovers at Mr Farage's parent's house, told Sky News' Amanda Akass that it "soon become obvious he was not quite the same person I thought he was".

Warning: This article contains references to antisemitic slurs which readers may find offensive

Another former pupil, Stefan Benarroch, who was in the year below Mr Farage and is Jewish, said that Mr Farage was "not a kid" when he made alleged antisemitic remarks and his behaviour was "unacceptable in any era".

Mr Farage has said he "never directly racially abused anybody" at Dulwich and said there is a "strong political element" to the allegations coming out 49 years later. Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice has called the ex-classmates "liars".

A Reform UK spokesman accused Sky News of "scraping the barrel" and being "desperate to stop us winning the next election".

'People were hurt by it'

Mr Lihou told Sky News Mr Farage used to direct antisemitic songs at his Jewish friend Peter Ettedgui, who is one of the main former classmates to have spoken out against the Reform leader.

"He used to sing: 'Gas them all, gas them out, gas them all, into the chambers they crawl' - and the rest of those horrible words," he said.

"You think, when somebody is obviously distressed by that, why do you keep doing it? The humour wears off... when you see this, and because I'm German I'm particularly sensitive to anyone making that kind of analogy."

Mr Lihou also said Mr Farage used to "pass comment on anyone that wasn't white, particularly Indians".

He said: "He had a great big issue with anyone called Patel because I think the school had at one point more Patels than Smiths. That seemed to irk him.

"Anybody who wasn't white, he was likely to have a comment pretty much throughout my school life, especially Jewish people. I think that was the worst thing because you could obviously see that people were hurt by it."

'He was truly ghastly'

Mr Benarroch, who was also friends with Mr Ettedgui, told Sky News: "His behaviour as a teenager was unacceptable by any standards and in any era. He was truly ghastly at Dulwich College."

He said he would never have come across Mr Farage "had I not been a Jew".

"He and his minions - and one of his minions, in particular, was my tormentor at Dulwich - they would spot us coming out of Jewish prayers on a Friday," he added.

"So his behaviour at 16, 17, 18 - and you are a man at 18, you're technically an adult - was truly appalling. So we're not talking about a kid here."

The property developer said the racism allegations are "not just about Nigel Farage as a teenager, this is also about Nigel Farage as an adult".

"His behaviour as a teenager was unacceptable by any standards and in any era. He was truly ghastly at Dulwich College," he added.

'These things don't leave you'

Mr Benarroch, who is no longer a practising Jew, added: "I was terrified of his bullies, he had these guys hanging around with him who were instructed to have a go at us as these young, nice Jewish boys.

"I don't recall ever having direct contact with Nigel Farage, but certainly I was very much a witness to his tormenting of others, especially Peter Ettudgui.

"He [Mr Farage] was so extreme, these things don't leave you, they don't leave your body, as such."

On Thursday, Mr Farage launched into a tirade at the BBC after one of its reporters asked about the claims, with the politician reading out a letter he said was from someone he went to school with.

He quoted the unnamed Jewish pupil as saying there was "plenty of macho, tongue-in-cheek schoolboy banter" and said sometimes it "was offensive, but never with malice".

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'It was not schoolboy banter'

Mr Benarroch rejected Mr Farage's claim it was just "schoolboy banter" and said he has continued to show the same views, just in a less obvious way.

"You tell that [that it was banter] to the guys, to Peter who had 'Hitler should have gassed you' said to him," he said.

"Peter Ettedgui was tormented by Nigel Farage.

"The point I'm making is, he's a grown man now. He's a highly intelligent politician with nuance when it suits him, and so clearly he's not going around saying 'Hitler should have gassed you all', obviously."

The former Dulwich student said Mr Farage had "kept the most disgraceful company imaginable" in the US during the 2010s on radio and TV shows.

He specifically named Rick Wiles, a far-right American conspiracy theorist whose YouTube channel was banned in 2020 after calling Donald Trump's impeachment a "Jew coup".

Mr Benarroch, who said he is not part of any political party, said "there is no political motivation" behind his allegations, but accused Reform and Mr Farage of making "a political statement" by calling them liars.

On Thursday, Mr Farage said he had received multiple letters from former pupils in support of him.

He said a letter from a Jewish schoolmate, said: "While there was plenty of macho tongue-in-cheek schoolboy banter, it was humour, and yes, sometimes it was offensive... but never with malice.

"I never heard him [Farage] racially abuse anyone."

A Reform UK spokesman "accused Sky News of scraping the barrel".

He said: "This ridiculous interview has nothing to do with Nigel Farage himself but apparently someone who knew him at school almost 50 years ago.

"Sky News are desperate to stop us winning the next election."

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman said a definitive ceasefire could only happen with a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the besieged enclave.

The first stage of a ceasefire deal was agreed in October, but violence in Gaza has not stopped. On Saturday alone, seven people were reportedly killed.

Palestinian local health authorities said the victims were from Beit Lahiya, Jabalia and Zeitoun in northern Gaza and included a 70-year-old woman who was killed by a drone strike.

The Israeli military said that in two separate incidents on Saturday, forces deployed in northern Gaza behind the so-called yellow line of withdrawal agreed in the ceasefire had fired on Palestinian militants who crossed the line, killing three.

The military was unaware of any drone strike, a spokesperson said.

The long-sought ceasefire - and the second one after a first deal fell apart earlier this year - began on 11 October after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan.

Despite accusations by both sides of violations, talks on the next phase of the ceasefire deal began almost two weeks ago, with Turkish, Qatari and Egyptian officials meeting in Cairo to discuss the second part of the agreement, including deploying a stabilisation force and body to govern Gaza and oversee reconstruction.

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"We are at a critical moment. It's not yet there. So what we have just done is a pause," PM al-Thani said during a panel discussion at the Doha Forum conference in Qatar.

"We cannot consider it yet a ceasefire. A ceasefire cannot be completed unless there is a full withdrawal of the Israeli forces - (until) there is stability back in Gaza, people can go in and out - which is not the case today."

On Thursday, an Israeli delegation held talks in Cairo with mediators on the return of the body of the last hostage held in Gaza, which would complete an initial part of Mr Trump's plan to bring an end to the two-year war.

Since the truce started, Hamas has returned all 20 living hostages and 27 bodies in exchange for around 2,000 Palestinian detainees and convicted prisoners.

The new 33-page document outlines an upending of American foreign policy objectives and priorities which have stood largely unchanged through different administrations stretching back decades.

The document says American strategy went "astray" over many years. It seeks to reframe America's strategic interests as being far narrower now than at any time in its modern history.

Among the key points, the document says:

• Europe faces "civilizational erasure" and could be "unrecognisable in 20 years or less"

• "Certain NATO members will become majority non-European" within a few decades

•​​​​​​​ America will "shift away" from the "burden" of the Middle East seeing it now as a "source and destination of international investment"

•​​​​​​​ In the Western hemisphere, America should pursue a policy of "enlist and expand… restoring American pre-eminence"

•​​​​​​​ In Africa, American policy focus should be on trade not "providing and spreading liberal ideology"

In black-and-white, the text articulates a dramatic strategic shift which has been playing out at lightning speed over the past year.

The document underlines the end of the concept of America as an arbiter of the democratic rules-based order.

"American foreign policy elites convinced themselves that permanent American domination of the entire world was in the best interests of our country. Yet the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests," the paper says.

Every US administration publishes at least one National Security Strategy during a presidential term.

The focus of this one is starkly different from that published by President Biden in 2022.

It's also notably different from the document which President Trump published during his first term. His 2017 paper cast the world as a contest between "repressive regimes" and "free societies".

This new one places the necessity to do trade above the imposition of values.

"We seek good relations and peaceful commercial relations with the nations of the world without imposing on them democratic or other social change that differs widely from their traditions and histories."

Mass migration and Europe

The new document is highly critical of mass migration.

It warns that uncontrolled migration is destroying the concept of nation states which could impact America's strategic alliances and the countries it counts as reliable allies.

The paper is particularly critical of Europe, of the European Union as a concept and of individual European nations.

"Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less," the paper says.

It continues: "As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies.

"Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation."

The document's language around the politics of governing parties across Europe is particularly stark.

Regarding Ukraine, the document says: "The Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition.

"A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those government's subversion of democratic processes."

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The document outlines how his administration will seek to support "patriotic European parties".

This is entirely in line with President Trump's rhetoric but still represents a major departure from the longstanding principle of not interfering in the politics of allies.

It says: "American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations' individual character and history.

"America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism."

Ukraine and Russia

On European-Russia relations, the document raises the prospect of war but curiously does not presume that such a conflict would involve America.

"Managing European relations with Russia will require significant US diplomatic engagement, both to reestablish conditions of strategic stability across the Eurasian landmass, and to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states."

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By contrast, President Biden's National Security Strategy, published in 2022, underlined repeatedly the "iron-clad" commitment the United States had to Europe's security.

Chinese risk and opportunity

The document presents Asia and the Indo-Pacific region as a source of opportunity for strategic and economic cooperation.

"President Trump is building alliances and strengthening partnerships in the Indo-Pacific that will be the bedrock of security and prosperity long into the future…"

And specifically on China, the paper presents a goal of "economic vitality" achieved through a balanced economic relationship between the two countries combined with an "ongoing focus on deterrence to prevent war".

Deterrence would be achieved, it outlines, by maintaining preeminent military strength over China.

It says: "This combined approach can become a virtuous cycle as strong American deterrence opens up space for more disciplined economic action, while more disciplined economic action leads to greater American resources to sustain deterrence in the long term."

Hemispheres of influence

In line with President Trump's focus on spheres of influence, particular focus is given to the western hemisphere.

There are clear references to the impact of drugs from south and central America into the US and more subtle references to control of the arctic.

"The United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region," the paper says.

It continues: "We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our hemisphere."