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Argentina's rugby stars appeared to join the mocking of England after their World Cup victory over their arch-rivals by wearing a kit paying homage to Diego Maradona's 1986 team.

Rogers has been one of Arsenal's top targets throughout the summer but until now the Gunners have not met Villa's valuation of their star attacker.

As La Albiceleste prepare to face Spain at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium in Sunday's showpiece event, thousands of fans swarmed upon the Big Apple - despite flash floods in the city.

Reuters reports: Incoming British prime minister Andy Burnham will scrap the government's troubled plans for a digital ID scheme when he enters office on Monday, a spokesperson for the new Labour Party leader said. Resources devoted to the scheme, deemed a "fiasco" by a cross-party committee of lawmakers, will be redirected to Burnham's priorities, the spokesperson said... "All the time and resource that was going to be spent on a national ID scheme will go instead to where it's most needed, such as helping with the cost of living," Burnham's spokesperson said. In November, the Office for Budget Responsibility watchdog estimated the cost of the digital ID scheme at around £1.8 billion ($2.4 billion) between financial years 2026/27 and 2028/29.

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More than three decades ago, then aged 14, Prince William stood in front of the imposing red brick of Eton College, ready to embark on the first chapter of his teenage years.

Kemi Badenoch last night launched a devastating attack on PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham over the future of oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.

On Saturday, David Lammy insisted that the hardline punishment for criminals was not being phased out, amongst fears that the scheme had been dropped.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT ROYAL BIRKDALE: Bryson DeChambeau became embroiled in a fresh row with Open Championship bosses after shooting a third-round 69 on Saturday.

Shoppers are being charged staggeringly high prices for basic products that cost very little to produce, The Mail on Sunday has found.

Mamdani said he's talking to local law official to see whether so a move can be made if the foreign leader attends United Nations General Assembly in September.

Street wardens working for local councils are taught to single out vulnerable individuals and intimidate them into paying £175 fines for offences as trivial as dropping a cigarette butt, the MoS can reveal.

The district superintendent insisted that 'AI is already in schools' while defending the move, which will cost more than $50,000.

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.