Roy Hodgson saluted Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere after they fired England to a thrilling win over Slovenia.

The French president has urged citizens not to travel to areas where they risk being kidnapped, as he greeted a man returning after being held hostage for three years by al-Qaida’s North Africa branch.

A Frenchman held for more than three years by al Qaeda’s North African branch was freed yesterday, days after two of the men implicated in his abduction were released.