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Olivia Attwood and Pete Wicks shared a passionate kiss on their first outing as a new couple in London on Friday.

Infantino and Trump came together for an event at Trump Tower in New York City just days out from the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina.

The model, 39, posted a slew of snaps from the trip on Instagram Stories while she and Jason relaxed on a luxurious yacht.

"Approximately half of Gen Z and millennials who have purchased a CD do not own a CD player," according to midyear sales statistics from entertainment data company Luminate. It's driven in part by "collection building", according to their report [PDF]: The CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio format into an affordable collectible. This behavior underscores that for younger generations, the act of buying physical music is as much about aesthetic ownership and direct financial support for the artist as it is listening to the music on the product itself "Among artists who had a direct impact on the resurgence of CDs, K-Pop icons BTS' 10th studio album, ARIRANG, was a big seller," Vice points out in their report on the new data. "However, Luminate also found that, beyond K-Pop's overall influence, CD sales still increased 6.7% year over year, even if the whole genre was removed from the equation, jumping 16% to 16.3 million units." That's more than the growth of vinyl sales (2.4%) — but physical media in general seems to be making a comeback: Through the first half of the year, total physical album sales on vinyl, CDs, and cassettes reached 38.2 million units in the United States. This equates to a 7.8% increase.... [I]t seems that younger music fans have been driving a lot of the retro revival. The report shows that in 2026, 60% of Gen Z listeners said they most often listen to music from the 1990s and older. This is a massive increase from the 18 percent marker in 2021. The new report also revealed that the way music fans are buying physical media has shifted. Indie record stores have been the largest generator of physical album sales for some time, and they continue to be. However, big-box stores like Target and Walmart took significant strides in the first half of 2026. Collectively, their music sales made up about 30% of the market. Thanks to Slashdot reader fjo3 for sharing the article.

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Northumbrian Water will pay its chief executive £1.5million as a 'retention payment' over the next five years.

I know nothing about the death of Ann Widdecombe, and won't discuss it until after any trial which may result. But I do wish that politicians would not use it as an argument for more security for MPs.

Alan Shearer has branded FIFA's third-place play-off 'meaningless' ahead of England's meeting with France tonight. Shearer has long been a critic of the fixture, which was first introduced in 1934.

Over the years he has weathered nasty breakups and cheating scandals, but now Sam Thompson is facing a new crisis, as the sunglasses firm he co-founded has been plunged into customer chaos.

There is also the threat of tornadoes in parts of New Jersey, winds of more than 65 miles per hour and of flooding to worsen after the area received up to three inches of rainfall in one hour.

Ms Chisholm, better known as Sporty Spice, or Mel C, said 'I do' dressed in a simple white, floor length gown while clutching a wildflower meadow bouquet at the Country House Cumbria.

Courtney briefly lost her sight after falling ill herself and has been swamped with thousands of pounds of vet bills amid the ordeal, which has left one of her beloved cats dead and the rest critically unwell.

As fans and A-listers alike flock to New Jersey for the FIFA showpiece on Sunday, prices have continued to rise ahead of what will be Lionel Messi's last ever World Cup match.

"One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management," reports The Register: Aside from the homepage, there's a GitHub repository — but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo is still there although the most recent changes were seven years ago. The new project also has a project history giving credit where it's due. The main man behind the revival is Joe Maloney, known on GitHub as pkgdemon. In case his name rings a bell, we've mentioned him before: he put together the Gershwin desktop in GhostBSD. Soon after we covered Gershwin on GhostBSD, he asked the maintainers if he could take over the NextBSD project. He did have a relatively minor role in the original — you can see his list of commits. The original NextBSD project was started by FreeBSD co-founder Jordan Hubbard in 2015 — its Wikipedia article has some of the history. The plan was to port some of the components of Apple's Darwin OS to FreeBSD... [T]he NextBSD plan is to take the FreeBSD kernel, the most capable of the FOSS BSD kernels, but replace FreeBSD's traditional and server-focused userland with the relevant parts of the publicly available Apple code. The rebooted NextBSD-redux is not based on a fork of the decade-old code. FreeBSD has moved on substantially in that time, and so have macOS and Darwin. This is a new project by a new developer, but it picks up the same overall plan, aims to assemble the same puzzle pieces, and shares the same intended goal. In places, it does draw on a little of the same code, though. The NextBSD-redux README describes what's working so far, with a lot more detail in the porting notes. Although there's no graphical desktop yet, that's underway as well.... For us, perhaps the key aspect of NextBSD — both the original version and NextBSD-redux — is that it isn't an effort to build something completely new from scratch. It's an effort to cherry-pick and combine elements of existing separate FOSS projects, and assemble them into a useful whole. The Team section of the homepage lists two core developers: Maloney and Anthropic's Claude Code. "From my perspective, AI is a force multiplier here," Maloney told The Register. "It is my team of developers, but I am steering the entire thing."

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Mel is set to marry the model this weekend at the stunning Country House Cumbria, with all of the Spice Girls, except Victoria Beckham, in attendance.

Alan Carr has said he plans to hold a banquet at his Scottish castle as he prepares to move into the £3.3 million property.

Aside from her glittering Hollywood career, Elsa Pataky is widely admired for her healthy and balanced lifestyle. 

The comedian, 54, has been dating the art gallery owner for three years, and this year she's begun working at his antiques shop in Cheshire.

The Strictly Come Dancing star, 31, is currently soaking up the sun on holiday as her former flame Pete Wicks hard-launched his romance with Olivia Attwood .

The reigning world champions take on the reigning European champions in Sunday's World Cup with Argentina hoping to retain the trophy after facing Spain. 

Vogue Williams has said it's a 'shame' Katie Price hasn't learned from her past relationships, after she was embroiled in a feud with Lee Andrews.