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For the past few years, Coca-Cola has experimented with wacky limited-time offerings, but its latest flavor is its first permanent addition in a while. Some say it’s part of Coke’s attempt to cater to tastes changing along with America’s demographics. Coca-Cola Spiced is a new soda that blends the “iconic taste” of Coke with a “burst of refreshing notes from raspberry and spiced flavors,” the company announced Wednesday. It will be available both in full sugar and zero sugar varieties when it hits store shelves in the US and Canada in the coming weeks. Coke doesn’t often add new permanent flavors to its…

Women watch the Super Bowl, too, right? And this year a slew of advertisers is expecting it. Health and beauty companies, some for the first time, are joining the scrum of beverage, technology and auto brands that have long been a staple of the blockbuster sports event. In a bigger shift, several longtime Super Bowl advertisers, like M&M’S, have spots featuring women who, for a change, aren’t just sipping soda in tight pants. Blame — or credit — singer Taylor Swift for this. Her much-publicized relationship with Kansas City Chief’s star Travis Kelce offers at least a chance of increased female viewership…

Moving in with your partner in India’s picturesque Himalayan state of Uttarakhand may soon require informing authorities and complying with a new law regulating “live-in” relationships. This key proposal within the state’s expansive Uniform Civil Code (UCC) – designed to establish a unified personal law for all residents, regardless of religion, sex, gender, and sexual orientation – has garnered more attention than the entire law itself since it was tabled in the state assembly on Tuesday. A common law has been one of the original promises of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which also rules Uttarakhand. Unmarried couples living together is…

Actress Gina Carano has sued Disney and Lucasfilm after she was sacked in 2021 over a social media post in which she compared being a Republican to being a Jew during the Holocaust. The lawsuit is being funded by Elon Musk, who made an open call on his platform X for others to join the suit. Ms Carano is seeking $75,000 (£60,000) in damages. She is also asking the court to force Lucasfilm to recast her. Representatives for the defendants were not immediately available for comment. Ms Carano, 41, a former MMA fighter, portrayed Cara Dune in the first two…

A door that blew away from a Boeing 737 Max shortly after take-off may not have been properly secured, a new report says. The US National Transportation Safety Board has released initial findings from its probe into the incident on an Alaska Airlines plane in January. It says four key bolts that were meant to lock the unused door to the fuselage appeared to be missing. Replying to the report, Boeing said it was accountable for what happened. In a statement, Boeing’s president Dave Calhoun said: “An event like this must not happen on an airplane that leaves our factory.…

The Republican-led House of Representatives has failed in a knife-edge vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border. Four Republicans broke ranks and joined all Democrats in the chamber to vote 216-214 against the measure. Opponents of US President Joe Biden blame Mr Mayorkas for a surge in illegal immigration at the US frontier. Border security is becoming a top political issue in the 2024 election. Three Republican defectors, Ken Buck of Colorado, Tom McClintock of California and Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, voted no on Tuesday evening. A fourth, Blake Moore of…

Migrant arrivals at the border have risen to record highs during President Joe Biden’s administration, a massive political headache for him ahead of the election. Polls suggest that more than two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Mr Biden’s handling of the issue. His likely opponent in November’s presidential election, Donald Trump, has condemned the bill as not tough enough, a sentiment echoed by many conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill. But it’s not just Republicans who are unhappy about it. Democratic mayors in cities struggling to cope with the influx are also making their feelings known. More than 6.3 million migrants have…

Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv and other cities on Wednesday morning, causing at least one death and several injuries, Ukrainian authorities reported. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that a downed Russian missile had damaged power lines and that some households in the city were without electricity. One man was reported to have been killed in the eastern city of Mykolaiv. The whole country was put under air alert around 06:00 (04:00 GMT). Mayor Klitschko said nine people had been injured in the capital, including a pregnant woman. In Mykolaiv, one person who was taken to hospital later died of his…

Three US media giants have announced a new sports streaming platform to be launched in autumn. Walt Disney’s ESPN, Fox Corp and Warner Bros. Discovery own a wide range of portfolios of sports rights including those for the FIFA World Cup, Formula 1, NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball. They hope to capture younger audiences and save costs. The service would have “a new brand with an independent management team” which would be available via a new app. Its pricing will be announced at a later date, according to their statement. The firms say each company will own one-third of the…

Singapore’s biggest bank DBS has slashed its CEO’s bonus by 30% after disruptions to its digital services, despite it posting a record profit. The company said the cut to Piyush Gupta’s variable pay amounts to S$4.14m ($3.1m; £2.4m) and that his full salary for 2023 will be disclosed in March. In 2022 Mr Gupta was paid S$15.4m. After several glitches last year, the country’s central bank banned DBS from buying new businesses or making non-essential IT changes for six months. The outages saw digital payment services and cash machines go offline across the city-state. At the time, DBS apologised and announced plans…