What happened
England booked their place in the World Cup quarter-finals with a dramatic 3-2 victory over Mexico after surviving an incredibly tense final half hour in front of a ferociously partisan crowd in Mexico City. The last-16 tie, the start of which was delayed by an hour because of thunderstorms, burst into life when Jude Bellingham scored twice in the space of 98 seconds to put England in command before Julián Quiñones reduced the deficit prior to half-time.

England’s task became more difficult when defender Jarell Quansah was sent off in the 54th minute following a VAR review, but captain Harry Kane restored the two-goal cushion from the penalty spot after Anthony Gordon had been brought down inside the area. Raúl Jiménez converted a penalty for the home side to make it 3-2, yet England held on through more than 11 minutes of stoppage time to secure the win.

Who said what
“It was a crazy game, we had to fight,” said Kane in a post-match interview where he could barely speak after singing “Wonderwall” at the top of his lungs.

This was one of “England’s greatest World Cup victories”, said Sam Wallace in The Telegraph, “an epic we will talk about for years in the life of the England team”. It was a “thriller”, agreed David Hytner in The Guardian. “A game that had pretty much everything, starting with another powerhouse performance from Jude Bellingham.”

What next?
England advance to the quarter-finals, where they will face Norway after Erling Haaland’s heroics saw the Scandinavians upset Brazil 2-1 earlier in the evening.

What happened
The absence of Mojtaba Khamenei from the funeral of his father, Ali Khamenei, has prompted renewed speculation about the man widely seen as his successor. While his three brothers attended yesterday’s ceremonies in Tehran alongside senior Iranian officials, Mojtaba did not appear. His absence follows persistent rumours that he was injured in the US-Israeli strikes that killed his father, although this has not been confirmed.

Who said what
Donald Trump reportedly said peace talks had been paused during the funeral period and suggested that the gathering of Iran’s senior leadership presented a military opportunity, but “we are not going to do that because then we would have nobody to negotiate with”.

Mojtaba Khamenei’s absence from the mourning ceremonies was “believed to be due to the dangers of Israeli threats to his life”, according to Al Jazeera. Since becoming supreme leader in March, he hasn’t made any public appearances or statements – a move many analysts attribute to safety concerns.

What next?
The funeral ceremonies will continue this week with a procession through Tehran before the coffin travels to Qom and finally Khamenei’s north-eastern home town of Mashhad for burial.

A “durian tsunami” has crashed the price of the notoriously smelly tropical fruit, with some vendors in Singapore giving them away for free, said the BBC.

The glut is the result of a “decade-long boom” during which Malaysian farmers “flocked to durian farming to cash in on growing Chinese demand”.

Due to its pungent smell, the fruit is “commonly banned” on public transport and in hotels in southeast Asia. Nevertheless, the global durian trade has gone from strength to strength; last year it was worth £5.5 billion, with 90% of exports going to China, where a “newly affluent middle class is discovering a taste for the exotic”.

Prized varieties like the Musang King – known as the “Hermès of durians” – have proved to be particularly popular as Chinese consumers become more “selective and sophisticated”. A single durian can sell for “up to 200 yuan (£21.50) and they are often presented on special occasions as luxurious gifts”.

To help meet this “insatiable appetite”, freight trains have been kitted out with “specially refrigerated cars” that allow durians to travel all the way from Thailand and Vietnam to China “with their flavour unimpaired”.

But now a “bumper harvest” has caused durian prices to “tumble”, according to Malaysia’s The Star. Prices are expected to “remain low until August” before “gradually recovering”. Until then, shops are employing “creative measures” to shift their extra stock, added the BBC. Viral videos have emerged of customers leaving a stall in Malaysia’s Pahang state carrying all-you-can-fit sacks filled “beyond the brim” with the spiky green fruit.