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The term 'brat summer' took on a whole new meaning last week thanks to the offspring of David and Victoria Beckham and their fellow Nineties icons, the Gallagher brothers.

Beyonce has made a major change to her Cowboy Carter tour just weeks after the singer was left hanging midair during a terrifying stunt.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: When they drew up the list of human rights 80 years ago, they forgot a very important one: the right of the people not to be insulted by their own governments.

Once a thriving, mega-rich market town, it is now so dominated by boarded-up buildings that there seem to be more empty storefronts than occupied ones.

If you want to know why Britain feels broken, why the public no longer trusts government at any level, look no further than the scandal uncovered by Reform UK's DOGE unit.

On the banks of Lake Tahoe, Nevada, the fairways of Edgewood Tahoe South golf club presented a scene of serenity. That was until the Kelce brothers took to the course.

Nick Rennison discovers how Richard Harpin made his billions, and how you could too!

A fascinating new book shows how your birth order can determine your life.

James Carey-Douglas lifts the hamper lid on how the posh picnic in Lady Glenconner's riotous book.

The First Lady, 55, took to Instagram on Saturday to share a heartwarming message dedicated to the survivors from the Christian girls' summer camp devastated by a flash flood on July 4.

Under new Civil Service guidance on 'pay control', only earnings above £174,000 - and bonuses over £25,000 - must be signed off, a hike from £150,000 and £17,500 respectively.

Famous cast members of the popular series were filming scenes when a woman complained a fellow extra had attempted to forcibly kiss her, it has been reported.

Arriving at the event in a black leather jacket and black, ripped jean shorts and a white T-shirt, the singer switched into a striped yellow shirt and blue jeans in record-breaking time.

Relations between North Korea and Russia have flourished in recent years with Kim Jong Un suppling troops and ammunition to Ukraine's frontlines in return for economic and military help.

For more than two decades, the couple appeared to have a normal marriage, raising two children in a pretty home by the Thames in west London.

Four people were injured in a shooting at a class reunion outside the Tyner Community Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. All the victims have been transported to the hospital.

The lavish spending, unearthed by Nigel Farage's new 'efficiency' audit, also included thousands of pounds spent on gift cards, Currys and Argos purchases, and takeaways.

"Firefox is dead to me," wrote Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols last month for The Register, complaining about everything from layoffs at Mozilla to Firefox's discontinuation of Pocket and Fakespot, its small market share, and some user complaints that the browser might be becoming slower. But a new rebuttal (also published by The Register) argues instead that Mozilla just has "a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users..." "Steven's core point is correct. Firefox is in a bit of a mess — but, seriously, not such a bad mess. You're still better off with it — or one of its forks, because this is FOSS — than pretty much any of the alternatives." Like many things, unfortunately, much of computing is run on feelings, tradition, and group loyalties, when it should use facts, evidence, and hard numbers. Don't bother saying Firefox is getting slower. It's not. It's faster than it has been in years. Phoronix, the go-to site for benchmarks on FOSS stuff, just benchmarked 21 versions, and from late 2023 to now, Firefox has steadily got faster and faster... Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose... Mozilla's leadership is directionless and flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It's no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a business. Like we said, don't blame the app. You're still better off with Firefox or a fork such as Waterfox. Chrome even snoops on you when in incognito mode... One observer has been spectating and commentating on Mozilla since before it was a foundation — one of its original co-developers, Jamie Zawinksi... Zawinski has repeatedly said: "Now hear me out, but What If...? browser development was in the hands of some kind of nonprofit organization?" "In my humble but correct opinion, Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only: — Building THE reference implementation web browser, and — Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees. — There is no 3." Perhaps this is the only viable resolution. Mozilla, for all its many failings, has invented a lot of amazing tech, from Rust to Servo to the leading budget phone OS. It shouldn't be trying to capitalize on this stuff. Maybe encourage it to have semi-independent spinoffs, such as Thunderbird, and as KaiOS ought to be, and as Rust could have been. But Zawinski has the only clear vision and solution we've seen yet. Perhaps he's right, and Mozilla should be a nonprofit, working to fund the one independent, non-vendor-driven, standards-compliant browser engine.

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Charles 'Tex' Watson grew up in small-town Texas, seemingly destined to be an all-American success story. Then, a visit to California in 1967 changed his life - and American criminal history.

The officers made no attempt to follow despite the intense focus on their president's new deal with Sir Keir Starmer to stop the boats.