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Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup seven years ago, and it still has five years to get its country ready to roll out the welcome mat. But as world soccer begins to focus more intently on the 2018 tournament in Russia this week, and the teams that will be taking part, thoughts of 2022 are never far away. Hassan al-Thawadi, the British-educated son of a diplomat leading the 2022 World Cup organizing committee, is the man tasked with putting on his country’s big show. In an interview at The New York Times last month, al-Thawadi revealed that he supports — gasp! — Lyon and not Qatari-owned Paris St.-Germain. He also discussed worker welfare, the unique challenges of hosting a World Cup in a Muslim nation, and the World Cup stadium that will have a second life as a wedding hall. You are the secretary general of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy. That’s quite a name. Did you come up with that? Yes. I’ve always been accused of not being too creative. … [Read more...] about Hassan al-Thawadi on Worker Welfare, Qatari Goals and the 2022 World Cup

close Video Vladimir Putin's priority is to 'divide the West' on Ukraine support: Sen. Angus King Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Angus King I-Maine join 'Fox News Sunday' to discuss the changes to the presidential primary calendar, national security concerns over TikTok, and foreign policy topics such as the China protests, and aid to Ukraine. Children in crisis amid Russia’s war in Ukraine took center stage during a UN Security Council meeting Tuesday as UN members cited numerous staggering statics and once again called on Moscow to end the war. World leaders condemned Russia’s deadly invasion and the effects it has had on global food shortages, the spike in internationally displaced people and the energy crisis it has helped plunge the world into. "Last Thursday, the UN released its global humanitarian overview for 2023 which set another record with 339 million people in need of assistance and a price tag of $51 billion," U.S. Ambassador … [Read more...] about Children take center stage in UN meeting on Russia’s war in Ukraine: ‘World gone mad’

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Christmas whooshes in from the wings, making a festive sneak attack. One instant, a recovering addict is deep in a soliloquy about the seductions of heroin; the next, she is standing in her doting sister’s living room, surrounded by sparkle and warmth. “ The Brightest Thing in the World ,” Leah Nanako Winkler’s potent new play at Yale Repertory Theater , is itself a bit of an ambush, though a more gradual one. Beginning as a rom-com with all the trimmings, it intensifies into a pair of love stories — each golden in its way, each fraught with quiet fear. Directed by Margot Bordelon, this is ultimately a brokenhearted tale. But for a nice long while, it luxuriates in the fluttery pleasure of mutual crushes morphing into romance. At Revival, a cozy bakery cafe in Lexington, Ky., the charming Lane (a stellar Katherine Romans) has been subtly wooing Steph (Michele Selene Ang), one of her regular customers, with coffee and pastries on the house. Lane even bakes her … [Read more...] about ‘The Brightest Thing in the World’ Review: Falling in Love, While Loving Heroin

0 Community Corner "One human trying to help," "just doing our jobs" and other things people doing good things say; a smiling hippopotamus and a sad, sad cat. Beth Dalbey , Patch Staff Posted Reply ACROSS AMERICA — Brody Kuenzler couldn’t quite decide if he felt more like a “king” or a “star” when he stepped onto the ice last week at Madison Square Garden “Fantastic,” the 12-year-old from Holbrook, New York, said to describe his feelings after being selected to ring the bell and drop the first buck ahead of the Rangers-Devils NHL matchup. The Raiders’ “Hockey Fights Cancer” program selected Brody for the honor because he’s been cancer free for three years now. Brody was selected for the honor to mark three years of cancer-free living. After he started experiencing leg pain and developed a limp in late 2018, doctors diagnosed him with a rare form of bone cancer. Now that he’s been cancer-free for three years, “it was … [Read more...] about 11 Good News Stories: A ‘King’ Or A ‘Star’; Walkabout Around The World

LONDON — While Prince Charles became Britain’s new king automatically on the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II , on Thursday, his role was officially proclaimed on Saturday morning in a ceremony laden with pomp and procedure at St. James’s Palace, a Tudor royal residence near Buckingham Palace. Charles will spend much of the first 10 days of his reign leading his country in mourning the queen, whose state funeral will be held on Sept. 19 in Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace announced on Saturday. On Sunday, six gamekeepers from Balmoral Castle, the summer retreat in Scotland where the queen died, are scheduled to bear her oak coffin to a hearse, which will transport it on a six-hour journey to Edinburgh. On Monday, the king is to travel to Scotland, where his mother will lie in state in St. Giles’ Cathedral. First, though, Charles underwent a more than 300-year-old ritual by which Britain’s kings and queens are proclaimed sovereign. It was the first time the public was … [Read more...] about King Charles III Is Formally Proclaimed to His New Role

close Video Fox News Flash top sports headlines for December 6 Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Tom Brady surpassed Peyton Manning for the most fourth-quarter comeback victories on Monday when he led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a stunning defeat of the New Orleans Saints. Brady threw two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter with less than four minutes to go. He would complete the comeback with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Rachaad White. It marked Brady’s 44th fourth-quarter comeback. Manning had 43 and Ben Roethlisberger had 41. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Former NFL player and current sportscaster Mark Schlereth stands on the field during the NFL game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Detroit Lions at State Farm Stadium on Sept. 8, 2019 in Glendale, Arizona. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images) On Tuesday, three-time Super … [Read more...] about Tom Brady is the ‘world’s greatest American,’ Super Bowl champ says