Marcus Smith has been included at fullback while George Ford will captain the side from fly-half. While it won't be a complete Test debut if he comes on, keep an eye out for centre Benhard Janse van Rensburg, who can't win a full international cap with England until they face Fiji this summer, having been born in South Africa.

Landon Donovan said Les Bleus were approaching the game in an "arrogant" and "casual" manner. Thierry Henry did not agree.

France started poorly and Senegal should have led, but Mbappe and Barcola secured an opening game win for the tournament favorites.

Mathieu van der Poel returned to racing on Wednesday at the Tour de Suisse. That appearance is mainly about building towards the Tour de France. We didn't yet see him at the front of the race. What does that mean heading into the Tour de France?

However, Giroud is not merely jumping on the bandwagon following Ayyoub Bouaddi's impressive World Cup debut for Morocco against Brazil last week. The pair are club team mates at Lille and Giroud has personally witnessed Bouaddi's desire to get better day in, day out.

PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) - French weather service Meteo-France said on Thursday it had extended its orange heatwave alert to cover 53 departments, or administrative districts, across France starting on Friday at noon.

French President ⁠Emmanuel ⁠Macron and his wife Brigitte ⁠hosted U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday at the Palace of ​Versailles, once the opulent residence of Louis XIV, the Sun King, as part of efforts to ‌improve transatlantic relations.

More than half of France's population were dealing with scorching temperatures on Friday, according to AFP's calculations, with hundreds of schools adapting their timetables to keep students out of boiling classrooms.