75 minutes ago WhatsApp says 'it's true' and confirms contacts change for billions of users

WhatsApp users have been told 'you no longer have to reach for your phone'

Economics

84 minutes ago New Starbucks boss to shake up ‘overly complex’ menu to win back customers

Brian Niccol aims to turn around coffee chain, which has reported falling sales, revenue and profitsThe new boss of Starbucks has pledged to shake up its “overly complex menu” in an effort to turn around the struggling coffee chain.Brian Niccol, who joined the company as chief executive in September, said Starbucks needed to “fundamentally change” its strategy in order to win back customers. Continue reading...

Economics

87 minutes ago She Speaks! by Harriet Walter review – new words for Shakespeare’s women

An actor’s collection of supplementary speeches for Shakespeare’s female characters offers fresh insights into his workHarriet Walter takes the title of her book from Romeo and Juliet. Spying Juliet at her window after the Capulet ball, Romeo fervently describes her expressive form: “she speaks”. The next phrase is, however, the more telling: “yet she says nothing”. It’s not literally true: Juliet does speak, famously, of her impatient desire and her willingness to submit herself to near-death for her love, but like almost all other Shakespeare heroines, she does it less than her male counterparts.Only in Rosalind, the spirited heroine of As You Like It, striding around the Forest of Arden in doublet and hose and flirting with men and women alike, is there a Shakespearean fema...

Politics

87 minutes ago Watership Down review – charming rabbit animation still has power to terrify

A band of rabbits must leave their warren to find safety in a film that, even in a digital age, still has the bloody force to scare young minds‘The field it’s covered in blood!” This is the young visionary rabbit Fiver, voiced by Richard Briers, in the British animation from 1978 by Michael Rosen, based on Richard Adams’s classic children’s book. The rabbits’ warren, quite as important as Tolkien’s shire, is about to be destroyed by a property development, announced by the humans’ heartless wooden sign, which of course none of the rabbits can read, but twitchy, squirming Fiver can sense the disaster it represents.So his brother Hazel (voiced by John Hurt) leads Fiver and a breakaway gang on a quest for safety to far-off Watership Down, a rumoured place of sanctuary foreseen by Fiver; th...

Events

89 minutes ago Outlander fans 'feel bad' for character after 'meh' bedroom scenes with new husband

Outlander fans have been discussing one particular couple that appears to be lacking in passion following their wedding day.

Culture

91 minutes ago Building collapses during heavy rains in southern India city, killing at least 5 workers

A seven-story building under construction has collapsed in southern India, killing at least five workers and trapping three others in the debris

Events

91 minutes ago Feline clever! Cats are smarter than BABIES and can even beat infants at word association games, study finds

A small team of animal scientists at Azabu University in Japan have found that common house cats are capable of linking human words with images without prompting.

Sport

1 hour ago Yellowstone fans vent fury as new trailer 'pretends' Kevin Costner is in final season

The final season of the Paramount epic is set to see the Dutton family story come to a close, following the sudden exit of leading man Kevin Costner

Sport

2 hours ago Gabriel Martinelli gives Arsenal timely boost as winger shows signs of his best form ahead of Liverpool clash

Brazilian was a rare bright spark against Shakhtar Donetsk and gives Arsenal a directness and drive they otherwise lack without Bukayo Saka

Politics

2 hours ago Giovanni Pernice speaks out on Strictly future in first interview since investigation into conduct

Former Strictly Come Dancing professional Giovanni Pernice has said he is 'relieved' the BBC investigation into his behaviour is over and he won't be changing his teaching style

Events