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That's three times the price of a similar ticket from the last World Cup in 2022.

For the World Cup final, tickets start at, get ready, $4,185 in the cheap seats, which is seven times the cost of an equivalent ticket in 2022.

Wow.

OK, so this is a World Cup for the rich then?

Well, that's the instinctive conclusion, really.

Certainly the majority of hardcore fans who watch their teams in the flesh will have to reconsider either whether they go at all or whether they cut down on the amount of games they're hoping to watch.

And this is all before the cost of hotels.

I'll just give you one example.

The opening match of the tournament is in Mexico City.

One hotel costs $150 per night in late May.

Three weeks later, on the eve of that match, it's nearly $4,000 a night.

Wow.

reaction from fans well an England fans group has described it as a slap in the face football supporters Europe whom you quoted earlier has called it a monumental betrayal of the traditions of the World Cup and has called on FIFA to

to halt the ticket sales and engage in consultation and review the prices until a solution that respects the tradition, universality and the cultural significance of the World Cup is found, end of quote.

We'll see how many are actually sold in the end, but FIFA says that already two million have gone and that as a non-profit making organisation, all of the World Cup's revenues will be put back into football development.

Manny Jasmine.

From Italian cooking to handmade sea salt in the Philippines and ceremonial dances in Kenya, UNESCO, the UN's cultural agency, has awarded the status of intangible cultural heritage to a diverse range of traditions this year.

And eyeliner, or specifically curl eyeliner, is among them.

Stephanie Prentice has this report.

The tradition of wearing kohl or kohl dates back thousands of years.