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While this will be a moment of unbridled joy for the Liverpool and England legend, it also marks the formal coming together of two strikingly different families.

Marek Pukas, from Poland, ignited a fierce debate online after he revealing his experience of visiting a popular Italian holiday destination was overshadowed by 'chaos' and 'streets full of trash.' 

As pinch-me moments go, arriving on a secluded island in the South Pacific was utterly mesmerising.

When Steven Gerrard welcomed his first granddaughter this week, aged 45, he joined the ranks of celebrities who are have entered their grandparent era early in mid-life.

Piccadilly Station in Manchester was busy last week. Travellers hurried from trains to the taxi rank at nearby Fairfield Street, where minicab drivers wait night and day for fares.

Petrol station boss Sutha Selvarajah said his business in Hythe, Kent, is being 'plagued' by drivers 'forgetting' to have cash and leaving ID behind, which turns out to be fake.

Hollywood is currently in an era of age-defying 'undetectable' plastic surgery. However, one of Tinseltown's top plastic surgeons has warned that not everything is as it seems

Famed sports radio host Chris Russo, whose fiery takes have earned him the moniker 'Mad Dog,' has claimed he narrowly avoided being arrested at Heathrow Airport in London.

There's a ray of hope for those unable to go on holiday but stuck with non-refundable bookings - and those looking to pick up an incredible break at a cut-price bargain.

Thousands of Americans are bracing for a tsunami after a major 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit off the US coast.

Sir Trevor Phillips said it was 'nonsensical' to introduce a government-backed definition because there were plenty of existing laws protecting Muslims from hate crimes.

Scale AI is laying off 14% of its workforce and 500 contractors as part of a major restructuring just weeks after Meta bought a 49% stake and absorbed its CEO into a new superintelligence lab. The Verge reports: Jason Droege, CEO of Scale AI, sent an email to all Scale employees today, which was viewed by The Verge. Droege said he plans to restructure several parts of Scale's generative AI business and organize it from 16 pods to "the five most impactful": code, languages, experts, experimental, and audio. The company will also reorganize its go-to-market team into a single "demand generation" team that will have four pods, each covering a specific set of customers. "The reasons for these changes are straightforward: we ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly over the past year," Droege wrote. "While that felt like the right decision at the time, it's clear this approach created inefficiencies and redundancies. We created too many layers, excessive bureaucracy, and unhelpful confusion about the team's mission. Shifts in market demand also required us to re-examine our plans and refine our approach." Droege said that he believes the changes to the company will make it more able to adapt to market shifts, serve existing customers, and win back customers that have "slowed down" work with Scale. He also said that the company would deprioritize generative AI projects with less growth potential. "We remain a well-resourced, well-funded company," he wrote. Scale's generative AI business unit will have an all-hands meeting tomorrow, followed by a company-wide meeting on July 18th. Osborne said that Scale plans to increase investment and hire hundreds of new employees in areas like enterprise, public sector, and international public sector, in the second half of 2025 and that severance has been paid out to impacted roles. "We're streamlining our data business to help us move faster and deliver even better data solutions to our GenAI customers," he said.

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As America marks the 59th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, shocking resurfaced clips of Buzz Aldrin have reignited conspiracy theories that the entire mission may have been faked.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is expected to set out a plan to enfranchise under-18s today.

Anderson 'Chase' Childers, 38, died a hero when he drowned off the South Carolina coast over the weekend.

President Trump said he 'shook hands' with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who agreed to execute fentanyl dealers. Trump said the penalty could happen 'soon.'

Love Island has faced backlash from Women's Aid after Tuesday night's episode as Harrison's antics sent fans into a fury as his love triangle with Lauren and Toni continued. 

Families paying for childcare over the six-week summer holiday now face a bill of £1,076 per child on average - a rise of 4 per cent on last year.

Mark Gatiss, the writer and star of Bookish, plays amateur sleuth Gabriel Book, who is only too aware that the local police sergeant (Blake Harrison) has suspicions about his sexuality.

Longtime Slashdot reader bobdevine shares a report from OSTechNix: For the first time, Linux has officially broken the 5% desktop market share barrier in the United States of America! It's a huge milestone for open-source and our fantastic Linux community. While many might think of Linux as a niche choice, this new data shows a significant shift is happening. According to the latest StatCounter Global Stats for June 2025, Linux now holds 5.03% of the desktop operating system market share in the United United States of America. This is fantastic news! [...] One truly satisfying detail for me? Linux has finally surpassed the "Unknown" category in the USA! It shows that our growth is clear and recognized. "It took eight years to go from 1% to 2% (by April 2021), then just 2.2 years to reach 3% (June 2023), and a mere 0.7 years to hit 4% (February 2024)," notes the report. "Now, here we are, at over 5% in the USA! This exponential growth suggests that we're on a promising upward trend."

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