Starbucks Corp will pause advertising on all social media platforms as it explores the best ways to help stop the spread of hate speech, the company said in a statement on Sunday.

High street coffee shop giant Starbucks has been caught up in a child labour row after an investigation revealed that children under 13 were working on farms in Guatemala that supply the chain with its beans.

It’s the stuff of nightmares for rugby fans: organisers of the upcoming World Cup in Japan have raised fears that bars and restaurants in host cities could run out of beer during the tournament.

Scientist David Nutt memorably said alcohol is more dangerous than crack. Now, he is trying to invent a healthy synthetic alternative, and the race is on to get it to market.

Drinking is ingrained in our social life – much as cigarettes were until public health campaigns led to a huge cultural shift. With many young people eschewing alcohol, the beginning of the end of booze Britain is in sight.

The trend for pairing booze and breakfast seems unusual – and likely to get you sacked. But in certain settings, with certain foods, it starts to make sense.

The warmer weather may benefit English vineyards, but winemakers from Bordeaux to California are struggling. 

Rising temperatures threaten survival of Belgium’s sour lambic beer, study warns.

Beer cannot be marketed as beneficial, a German top court has ruled after a consumer rights group sued a brewery on the basis that it’s advertising falsely suggested health benefits.

BrewDog’s launch of a pink “beer for girls”, ostensibly to raise awareness about gender pay inequality and sexist advertising, has come in for criticism as a cynical marketing stunt.