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How Victoria Beckham turned her fashion firm around and made it profitable
Victoria Beckham’s fashion and beauty business has become profitable for the first time, 18 years after it was founded, marking a turning point for a company that once faced significant financial difficulty. Victoria Beckham Holdings reported an operating profit of £7.3m for 2025, which the firm called “a significant milestone” after years in which Lady…
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Colin Kaepernick Finally Responds to Jay-Z’s Yankee Stadium Freestyle: ‘I View That as Speaking to a Guilty Conscience’
Colin Kaepernick has responded publicly for the first time to being name-checked by Jay-Z during a freestyle at the rapper’s Yankee Stadium residency in July. Speaking to Lester Holt for an NBC Dateline interview airing 7 September, the former NFL quarterback suggested Jay-Z’s repeated references to him stem from lingering guilt over his 2019 NFL…
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Harry Styles at MSG: How to Get Last-Minute Tickets to His “Together, Together” NYC Residency
Harry Styles has begun his 30-night “Together, Together” residency at Madison Square Garden in New York, with three shows completed and 27 remaining through Halloween. Demand remains strong on the secondary ticket market, and the run is notable for reviving debut songs and reshaping his setlist night to night, marking his first extended live outing…
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Kingdom Hearts almost led to Disney making its own version of Super Smash Bros, former dev says
A former Disney Interactive concept artist has revealed that Kingdom Hearts’ success nearly led Disney to develop its own Super Smash Bros-style fighting game. Ken Christiansen, who worked on the original Kingdom Hearts, told Time Extension that Disney executives had initially resisted mixing characters from different franchises, causing friction during that game’s development, but its…
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Travis Kelce Shares Taylor Swift’s Reaction to Publicly Debuting Their Dog After Keeping Her ‘Under Wraps’ for a Year
Travis Kelce revealed on the season premiere of his New Heights podcast that Taylor Swift approved plans to feature their dog, Wendy, in his new Tommy Hilfiger campaign, ending months of the couple keeping the Samoyed largely out of the public eye. Kelce explained that the fashion brand’s team asked if he was comfortable using…
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The best kettles in the UK to save energy and speed up your cuppa, tested
The Guardian’s product testers have reviewed electric kettles available in the UK, aiming to help buyers choose a model that saves energy and boils water faster. Although kettles all perform the same basic task, the review found significant differences in design, energy efficiency, durability and features such as variable temperature settings and keep-warm functions, meaning…
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Ultimate Legacy Piece Tier List – Best Sword, Style & Ability
Destructoid has published an updated tier list ranking the best swords/weapons, abilities/powers (fruits) and fighting styles in the Roblox game Legacy Piece, aimed at helping players optimise their character builds. The guide reflects the game’s tendency towards “power creep,” meaning weapons from more recent updates generally outperform older ones, while rankings for abilities and styles…
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Simply the best? Is the Berlin Philharmonic really better than all the rest?
The Berlin Philharmonic, widely regarded as one of the world’s finest orchestras, is performing at the Proms in London this week under chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, following its first visit to Scotland in over 20 years to close the Edinburgh International Festival. The orchestra’s enduring reputation, built up over more than a century despite changes…
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Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’
As companies increasingly rely on AI tools to generate marketing copy, images and video, they are turning to freelance creatives not to produce original work but to fix the flawed output – a trend now dubbed cleaning up “AI slop”. Freelancers such as Spain-based graphic designer Lisa describe the work as lucrative but exhausting and…
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5 top tips from World of Warcraft housing creators for making amazing masterworks
This piece rounds up practical advice from experienced World of Warcraft player-housing decorators, aimed at helping others create standout “masterwork” builds using the game’s housing system. It’s a tips-style feature drawing on community creators’ hands-on experience rather than a single news event, so it matters mainly to players wanting to improve their in-game interior and…