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The 12 Thai cave boys: Brave young footballers include 14-year-old who speaks four languages and 15-year-old who is not on the team but went on the trip to hang out with his best friend

The 12 Thai cave boys: Brave young footballers stuck in cave

The 12 boys aged 11 to 16 who have been trapped in a cave in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand for two weeks are all players in the same football team. From top left clockwise are: Sompong Jaiwong, 13, Mongkol Boonpiam, 14, Peerapat Sompiangjai, 16, Duangpetch Promthep, 13, Panumas Saengdee, 13, Adul Sam-on, 14, Nattawut Takamsai, 14, Prajak Sutham, 14, Chanin Wiboonrungrueng, 11, Ekkarat Wongsookchan, 14, Pipat Bodhi, 15, and Pornchai Kamluang, 16. Many of them have dreams of playing for Thailand's national football league, while some are also - according to their families - dedicated students.

Trapped Thai boy, 13, pictured in an England shirt with his young team mates was desperate for the Three Lions to win the World Cup and 'loves' captain Harry Kane, uncle reveals

Sompong Jaiwong, 13, was pictured last week in an England shirt while huddled on a rocky ledge with his team mates deep in the cave network in Thailand's Chiang Rai province.

FIFA boss Infantino invites trapped Thai cave boys to the World Cup final in nine days' time

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said he hoped the 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their coach would be rescued in time to be able to fly to Moscow as FIFA's guests and watch the final on July 15.

Elon Musk sends engineers from his Boring Company to help Thai cave rescue mission - and proposes creating underwater air tube for the children to crawl through

The tech billionaire is sending his top employees to rescue 12 schoolboys and their coach from a flooded Thai cave. They plant to insert a nylon tube and inflate it 'like a bouncy castle' to create a tunnel.

Body of diver who died taking supplies to trapped Thai soccer team is repatriated with honours - as video emerges of him vowing 'We'll bring the kids home'

Twelve Thai boys and their football coach have been trapped in the flooded cave for 12 days. Thai Navy Seal Saman Kunan, 38, died due to lack of oxygen in the tunnel during rescue efforts.

Pope says climate change and mankind's rampant consumption will turn the Earth into 'rubble, deserts and refuse'

Pope Francis has urged governments to make good on their commitments to curb global warming.

210,000 people are evacuated as record downpours hit Japan, with 44 INCHES - two months' worth - falling in three days

Parts of the main island of Honshu and the smaller Shikoku Island have seen two months worth of rain fall in just 72 hours, and officials have warned of more rain this weekend.

Suspected prostitutes are caned during mass flogging that leaves man's back red raw in Indonesia's Sharia law province

Suspected prostitutes caned during mass flogging that leaves man’s back red raw in

These pictures show women accused of being prostitutes and a man being publicly caned in the Indonesian state of Aceh despite moves earlier this year to move the punishments to prisons. The women are forced to kneel before a masked man wielding a cane and beaten several times, leaving them in agony. The man stands for his punishment, which leaves lacerations on his back. A proposal by Aceh's governor to end public canings was met with opposition from a local hardline Islamist group and MPs from the region.

Rio Ferdinand meets with PUTIN at the Kremlin as outrage over Novichok crisis continues in Britain

Rio Ferdinand meets Putin amid outrage over Novichok crisis

Rio Ferdinand joined a FIFA delegation to meeting Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, where they presented the Russian president with football shirt with his name on the back. The ex-England captain's attendance at the event comes amid a fresh diplomatic storm after a British couple were left foaming at the mouth in Wiltshire having been poisoned by the Soviet-made nerve agent Novichok. In the Kremlin today, Ferdinand (right, in the main picture) and the rest of the football delegation seemed relaxed around the Russian president. Also in the party were fellow football legends including Denmark's Peter Schmeichel (bottom right) and Germany's Lothar Matthaus (top right).

Anne Frank's family tried to escape to the US but were stopped by America's strict immigration policy and outbreak of WWII, new research says

Anne Frank's father Otto tried twice to collect the papers needed for the family of four to obtain visas for the United States, and later also applied for a visa to Cuba, new research reveals.

Terrifying moment tourists run screaming as gunshots ring out in Benidorm nightspot in gangland feud that left innocent British man shot in the buttocks

The dramatic clip shows holidaymakers running for cover as a suspected feud between two rival drugs gangs descended into violence in the heart of the Spanish holiday resort's Little England area.

Human heads sold at the market stall for cannibals: Haunting images show Russian peasants selling body parts during 1920s famine that forced families to eat their relatives

Russia was gripped by a famine that began in spring 1921 and lasted all of 1922, which was caused by the policies of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who instructed food to be seized from the poor.

80% of Germans say they are unhappy with Merkel's government as border deal is finally agreed that ditches 'migrant transit centres'

The new poll found that 78 per cent of Germans were somewhat, or completely, dissatisfied with Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government, an increase by 15 per cent since June.

British man is hit by lightning, falls off a mountain... and SURVIVES! Hiker is lucky to be alive after horrific accident in Austrian Alps

The 44-year-old man was flung off a 6,000ft cliff face after being struck by a fork of lightning. He'd just ascended the Seebergspitze peak in the Austrian Alps.

British tourist is shot in the buttocks in Benidorm nightclub after getting caught up in 'gangland' shooting that also saw a Moroccan 'drug dealer' wounded

Terrified British tourists were forced to flee from bars on the Spanish resort's main strip, Calle Mallorca, amid reports of a double shooting at one of the area's many nightspots.

Single shoe is all that remains of poacher eaten by lions as he hunted rhinos: Chewed footwear is pictured as fears grow over whether the cats will have to be killed after tasting human flesh

Single shoe is all that remains of South Africa poacher eaten by lions

Questions have been raised over whether the lions at the Sibuya Game Reserve in Eastern Province, South Africa, would have developed a taste for hunting humans after eating three rhino poachers. One head, some bloodied limbs and a few empty shoes (left) was all that remained of the hunters. However, staff (pictured right is an anti-poacher guard) has sought to assure any worried potential visitors, saying they have not noticed any changes in the pride's behaviour around humans and will continue to monitor them.

'It's hell in Noah's Ark': Inside shocking Russian circus where animals are left to roast in tiny cages and 'scream in pain through the night'

Animal rights activists complain that many of the 40 species in Noah's Ark zoo in Ryazan, 125 miles southeast of Moscow, are deprived of water in scorching summer temperatures of 86F. Some are held in cramped cages and others roast in the daytime heat. The state prosecutor's office in Ryazan said it had launched checks into Noah's Ark based on a flood of complaints including those referring to 'screams' of distressed animals at night, and locals have complained of the unbearable stench coming from the zoo.

The world's most romantic penguins: Birds appear to enjoy a romantic walk along the beach, flipper in flipper

Twitter user FreakingDani, from California, posted this footage of two penguins appearing to hold flippers on a beach in South Africa after her aunt captured it while on holiday.

Hundreds of protesters rally after Polish government forces judges to retire and takes control of the Supreme Court, which oversees election results

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the court in Warsaw on Wednesday, holding posters referencing the constitution as they lashed out at the ruling Jaw and Justice party.

Glasses company Valley Eyewear apologises after filming advertising campaign at a DEATH CAMP in Croatia

Valley Eyewear made a series of videos in the Balkans using footage of models in sunglasses but some of the images were from Jasenovac, a death camp run by Croatia's Nazi puppet regime.

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