Woolworths online delivery platforms tested: which is cheapest and how do they compare with in-store shopping?

Australia’s biggest supermarket has added yet another online delivery option, offering more choice – but perhaps also complexity and confusion – for Woolworths shoppers.The delivery platform DoorDash has emailed customers to let them know it is now delivering the supermarket’s groceries, promising “more choice for last-minute top-ups, weekly shops and everything in-between”.This gives Woolworths customers four main delivery options: the supermarket’s own website, DoorDash, UberEats and Milkrun, which Woolworths acquired in 2023.So which Woolworths option is cheapest? And how do prices compare to buying in store? Guardian Australia tested it out.Sign up: AU Breaking News emailWoolworths started using DoorDash soon after rival Coles severed its arrangement with the platform to partner exclusively with UberEats

World stock markets brace for turbulence after Trump’s latest tariff shock

Global stock markets are bracing for falls when trading resumes on Monday after Donald Trump threatened eight European countries with fresh tariffs until they support his ambition to acquire Greenland.The US president’s plan to impose new trade levies of 10% on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland from 1 February, rising to 25% on 1 June, is creating fear in the markets, and among European businesses.Trading on the brokerage IG’s weekend markets suggest there will be losses on the London Stock Exchange when it reopens on Monday, while rising geopolitical fears could drive precious metal prices towards new record highs. Wall Street, which reopens on Tuesday, is also on track for a fall.“This latest flashpoint has heightened concerns over a potential unravelling of Nato alliances and the disruption of last year’s trade agreements with several European nations, driving risk-off sentiment in stocks and boosting safe-haven demand for gold and silver,” said Tony Sycamore, a market analyst at IG

Deactivate your X account – you won’t miss it when it’s gone | Letter

As a past follower of Marie Le Conte (AKA the Young Vulgarian) on X, I read her column on leaving the platform with interest, complete empathy and self-reflection (To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave, 12 January).I joined X – or rather, Twitter – in 2007 after reading a Guardian article on the five next hit websites. Needless to say, most of the others have been forgotten. I was bored in my uni halls and it sounded the most interesting.In those days one could sit and watch the global feed – every tweet being posted in the world – with notable seconds between posts

‘Still here!’: X’s Grok AI tool accessible in Malaysia and Indonesia despite ban

Days after Malaysia made global headlines by announcing it would temporarily ban Grok over its ability to generate “grossly offensive and nonconsensual manipulated images”, the generative AI tool was conversing breezily with accounts registered in the country.“Still here! That DNS block in Malaysia is pretty lightweight – easy to bypass with a VPN or DNS tweak,” Grok’s account on X said in response to a question from a user.Grok’s ability to allow users to create sexually explicit images, including images of children, has created a global outcry over recent weeks, with regulators and politicians around the world launching investigations. Indonesia and Malaysia became the first two countries to announce blocks on the technology, with Malaysia’s regulatory body saying last Sunday it had “directed a temporary restriction” on access to Grok, effective as of 11 January 2026. Officials in the Philippines have said they too plan to ban the technology

Houston Texans v New England Patriots: AFC Divisional Round NFL playoff – live

So I have just been listening to Patriots owner Robert Kraft say his team are BACK. A little strong but he’s hardly going to say he’s not sure when asked if they are. New England have certainly been very good after cooking up a brilliant 14-3 season while just missing out on the AFC’s top seed. They certainly seem like they are on more solid ground now with Drake Maye at the controls with club man Mike Vrabel coaching compared to the very false dawn they had with Mac Jones.Jones, now backing up Brock Purdy in San Francisco, helped earn New England’s most recent playoff visit after Tom Brady left the building

Not bowled over by male sports chat | Brief letters

I’m fed up with reading Guardian articles that make use of male sporting analogies. I have absolutely no idea who Stuart Broad is and I guarantee the majority of women reading your editorial (16 January) wouldn’t either. Therefore your analogy is incomprehensible. Guys, just stop this blokey, pub-style chat and wake up to your female readership, for pity’s sake! It’s well past time.Kathy DalwoodLondon It’s not only north and south that are relative concepts (Letters, 15 January) – so is one’s country … at least on football terraces