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The first thing Oasis sells you is the light. Tenerife hands the series a particular Atlantic glare — a high white sky, a sea the colour of cut glass, low buildings that sink into the volcanic rock so completely they look less constructed t…

Mexico are top of Group A with two clean sheets and the maximum return, the first team into the World Cup knockouts. But both of their goals were gifts — a red-card avalanche, then a goalkeeping collision — and Javier Aguirre’s high-line 4-1-4-1 is engineered to resist, not to create. The favourite tag survives on points; the question of how this team scores when no one hands it the goal is the one the group stage never asked.

French-Italian singer Alex Rossi teams with Stockholm-born, Paris-based Jo Wedin on «Fascinazione», a three-track single produced by Paul de Homem-Christo, the younger brother of Daft Punk co-founder Guy-Manuel.