7 h. ago The World Cup is out of reach for many. The hope lies outside the stadiums | Leander Schaerlaeckens

The opportunity for this tournament’s legacy is in the fan fests, camps and tune-ups accessible to more than the lucky fewIn Germany, fans watched the games on screens in crowded town squares, their roars careening off ancient buildings, or from the banks of rivers, peering at floating, double-sided big screens on barges. At the next World Cup, in South Africa in 2010, people gathered in parks and open-air markets and hotel lobbies and unlicensed, makeshift bars in people’s garages. In Brazil, four years later, fans spilled from the bars on the Copacabana or watched in restaurants or in streets closed for the occasion – not as if anybody was driving during the Seleção’s games anyway.During the 2018 World Cup, Russia surprised visitors – and its own citizens – with its friendliness as spontaneous parties broke out all over the country. The reason the 2022 World Cup in Qatar didn’t entirely feel like a real World Cup is that those sorts of spontaneous soccer gatherings just didn’t see...

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36 h. ago How much you need saved in your pension at every age for a stellar retirement

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36 h. ago This is how much you need to have saved in your pension at every age for a stellar retirement

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36 h. ago Top tips to help people making a new claim for devolved disability benefits

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37 h. ago New weekly payment for carers in Scotland due to start in March

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43 h. ago ‘I thought it was going to perish’: the remarkable revival of an endangered language in Lesotho

Concentrated among 1,000 people in the remote Daliwe valley, siPhuthi has gained a dictionary, a Bible translation and official recognition thanks to intrepid linguists and activistsTsotleho Mohale was addressing a group of people gathered on a mountainside still damp from an intense rainstorm that morning. The peaks on the other side of the steep valley were draped in cloud. Mohale was speaking in siPhuthi, a language spoken by just a few thousand people in parts of southern Lesotho and the north of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, about the plants he used and the ailments he cured as a traditional healer.The questions came from Sheena Shah, a British linguist, and were translated into siPhuthi by Mohale’s grandson Atlehang. Shah’s German colleague Matthias Brenzinger was filming the exchange. The two academics have been travelling regularly to Daliwe, a remote valley in Lesotho about 15 miles from the nearest paved road, since 2016, working with local interpreters and activis...

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3 d. ago ‘We remember you’: Victims of New Cross fire honoured on 45th anniversary

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The South London neighbourhood named 1 of 'coolest' in world where people still visit after moving out  MyLondon

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4 d. ago Four police officers injured in violent clashes outside Iranian embassy in London

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4 d. ago Indonesia plane vanishes after 'loud explosion' sparking major search for aircraft

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4 d. ago Police officers injured in 'violent disorder' outside Iranian embassy in London

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4 d. ago People nearing State Pension age this year can no longer claim these benefits

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