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The newly appointed US ambassador to Greece straddled the gap between the dock and the vessel in a flowing white lace maxi dress and a towering pair of Valentino heels worth around $1,000.

Steven Dougall, of Falkirk passed away in hospital after the incident on July 21 when he was 'crushed'.

The Register looks at exactly why "It is practically impossible to move any non-trivial Word document out of MS Office to a non-MS suite and back again without it being more trouble than it's worth." OOXML, developed by Microsoft and first standardized by Ecma in 2006, became the ISO/IEC 29500 standard in 2008 after a grueling and adversarial process. Microsoft pursued standardization because it has always been a standards-led organization dedicated to maximizing the options for its customers. Or because it had to at gunpoint, while vowing silently to follow the letter of the law but stymie its intent. You decide... The Document Foundation (TDF) which spends its days worrying about such things, reports that Microsoft has effectively broken the standard by sticking with a transitional version as its default rather than the cleaner Strict variant. The result is that what Microsoft software renders is what Microsoft wants to render, despite nominal compliance... What we need is a test suite that can take any OOXML engine and test its compliance against what Microsoft is actually doing. That means the tooling wrapped around the spec has to account for proprietary dependencies that get smuggled in, such as fonts. It also means actively and continuously tracking the ground truth of Microsoft's evolving products and services. It doesn't need to be perfect, but it absolutely needs to be good enough. Compliant engines have to become good enough for a critical mass of users to coalesce around them. In an earlier article The Document Foundation reminded all software users that they have a choice. "When an institution sends a letter formatted with a proprietary font, embedded in a proprietary format, produced by proprietary software, it is not communicating information but perpetuating a dependency." "Digital sovereignty begins with the recognition that this is a choice: the file format is a choice, the font on the page is a choice, and the software is a choice."

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Police officers say Leo has now been found

Here in Norfolk you are more likely to bump into a seal on the beach than a drunken teenager and most of the people who holiday in Cley-next-the-Sea are young families or retired people.

An air ambulance was dispatched to Red House Farm in Earnley, near Chichester, after witnesses dialled 999 at around 7.30pm on Saturday.

Boxer Lee Reeves has been hospitalised after being knocked out during his defeat by Gary Cully.

Despite keeping up the post for months after their December split, Louis has now deleted it from his Instagram after she was pictured with a new man.

Elisabeth Jane Ross, 38, who was also known as Lisa, was discovered inside a suitcase by a homeless man in an abandoned car park in the Kypseli district of Athens on 18 July.

American Jamey Carney never tired of saying how happy she was with her new life in Ireland, describing relocating there as 'the best decision' she had ever made.

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026, reports Phoronix, "and they point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use." Back in March Steam on Linux hit a record high of 5.33%, dropped to 4.52% in April, landed at 3.99% in May, and then in June was at 3.69%. The just-published numbers for July put Steam on Linux use at 4.01%, as an improvement over the prior two months but still well off the percentage highs of March and April... The July data puts SteamOS Holo as powering around 22% of Steam on Linux gaming systems. That's also with the Steam Machine now shipping, in addition to the Steam Deck.

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Jo Kessel is among one of the first passengers on board Royal Caribbean's latest liner, which stretches almost a quarter of a mile in length and has designated neighbourhoods on board.

Two people have been arrested after a man in his 30s was allegedly shot dead at a traveller site in Wiltshire.

Kimberly wed the Dawson's Creek actor in a 'small spiritual ceremony' in Tel Aviv, Israel on August 2, 2010 and was pregnant with their first child at the time of their wedding.

Donna Air stripped off to celebrate her 47th this year in her 'birthday suit' as she lounged naked on a sunbed to honour the occasion on Sunday.

The Argentine hit the headlines last month when he clashed with Jude Bellingham after England's semi-final defeat at the World Cup.

Amanda Holden showcased her radiant appearance as she posed for a rare romantic snap with her husband Chris Hughes on Sunday.

Father-of-three Paul Camfield was home alone with his 11-year-old son, Josh, when he fell out of bed convulsing.

The sculpted physique, which is characterised by two pronounced vertical lines running down the sides of the abdomen, has been hailed as a revered new body ideal.

Nearly four years after the murder of four students from the University of Idaho by Bryan Kohberger, there's much that we still don't know about what happened in that house, and why.