Roberto A. Ferdman

America has fallen out of love with orange juice.

American fast-food chain Taco Bell is getting into the breakfast business. The Mexican food eatery is planning to roll out a new breakfast menu on March 27, which will include a hefty line of offerings, including a breakfast burrito, grilled breakfast taco, and even a waffle taco.

Among the complaints of the Venezuelans that have taken to the street by the tens of thousands over the past couple weeks is the government’s inability to stem high inflation. It’s easy to see why people are angry; official figures put the country’s annualized inflation rate at 56%, which is among the highest in the world. And there’s reason to believe even that high number is a drastic underestimate of Venezuela’s actual inflation rate.

Brazil is on the verge of a coffee shortage, and that could be bad news for the quality of your morning caffeine fix.

No one downs vodka like Russia does.

People drink far more still bottled water than sparkling water these days, and the gap has been growing fast, according to market research firm Canadean. Global per capita bottled non-carbonated water consumption has grown from about nine liters (300 fluid ounces) per person in 1999, to nearly 27 in 2013—an almost 200% jump. Meanwhile, bottled sparkling water intake per person has grown by a paltry 13% to six liters per person.

Consumers have gotten more wary of artificial sweeteners amid an ongoing scientific debate about their possible connection to health problems. That’s hurting sales of diet soda, which use these sorts of sugar substitutes to deliver sweetness without adding calories. But rather than doing away with the artificial sweeteners, food manufacturers appear to be slipping them in under other names consumers are less likely to recognize.

Sometimes it takes a crisis to find out who’s got your back. 

Olympic photography is a competitive business, especially for the veteran professionals who have to go toe-to-toe with drone cameras, photo agencies installing lightning-speed fiber optic networks at the games, and astronomically expensive and rapidly changing camera technology.

Yesterday, Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, whom the government has blamed for the recent protests, promised to turn himself in under one condition: that the protests continue in Caracas today.

The numbers: Unimpressive. Global beverage giant Coca Cola Co. reported fourth quarter profits of $1.7 billion (pdf), down 8% from the same period last year. Global sales were $11 billion, 4% lower than in the fourth quarter of2012. Shares are up a smidgeon in pre-market trading.

You’d think a soup company looking to branch out would be betting the farm on oyster crackers. But Campbell’s is convinced Goldfish are the next big thing.

After weeks of rumbling, Mount Kelud erupted on the Indonesian island of Java late last night, sending plumes of smoke and hot ash tens of thousands of feet into the air (55,700 feet, to be precise). As of this morning, the volcano had killed three people and dislocated as many as 100,000, according to CNN. The current evacuation zone covers a 10 kilometer (6.2 mile) radius including 36 villages.

Violent crimes are plummeting in England and Wales. The number of such offenses has tumbled from over 4 million in 1995 to fewer than 2 million last year, according to the Office for National Statistics. In fact, the UK more broadly has managed to curb just about every crime over the past 30 years, except for a couple petty ones (bicycle thefts and pickpockets, in case you’re wondering).

For struggling soda companies like PepsiCo, munchies, not fizzies, are the business of the future.

Chick-fil-A is trying to bring it all back to the chicken.

If you can’t stop it, make it safer.

Skiing appears to be headed downhill in the US—traditional, alpine skiing, anyway.

Who eats white chocolate? A lot of people, apparently.

Sochi Olympic athletes are whizzing down mountains, jumping off half pipes, and skating their way to gold medals, but where’s everyone else?

The second punch always hurts more.

This article has been corrected.

This article has been corrected.

The only thing fleeing faster than Puerto Rico’s population is its financial credibility.