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A new national survey (PDF) from CNBC/Generation Lab of 1,033 people aged 18 to 34 found that an overwhelming 81% of respondents believe a four-day workweek would boost their company's productivity, while 19% said productivity would decline. CNBC reports: Those results from the "Youth & Money in the USA" survey come amid discussions around the potential benefits of switching from the standard five-day U.S. workweek to a four-day cadence without a pay cut. Some companies have begun testing the arrangement, and say it has mitigated employee burnout and strengthened business performance. Exos, a U.S. coaching company that trains top athletes and leads corporate wellness programs, recently reported results from the first six months of an ongoing four-day workweek experiment. The company said the shortened workweek increased efficiency along with revenue and retention. Although respondents to the CNBC/Generation Lab survey largely agreed on workweek length, they were less unified when asked about work setting. A 60% majority said they do their best work in the office, while the other 40% said they do so at home. Further reading: 32-Hour Workweek for America Proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders

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Greene filed papers for the split on Wednesday, TMZ reported after reviewing court docs, saying the former pair had 'irreconcilable differences.'

Our guest for series 2 is the one and only Gemma Collins. She talk us through her life, as only she knows how. In episode 1, Gemma recounts her humble upbringing and her relationship with her mum.

There were two barriers in the way of Charles Darwin securing a berth on the Beagle - his father and his nose!

Katie Price looked more loved-up than ever as she enjoyed a date night with boyfriend JJ Slater at a PrettyLittleThing event in London on Wednesday night.

Molly-Mae Hague has sparked concern among fans after she failed to share a birthday tribute for her fiancé Tommy Fury.

David Lammy (pictured) yesterday vowed to find 'common cause' with Donald Trump as he performed a U-turn over his stance on the former president.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: He never sought the spotlight yet, thanks to his unflinching stoicism and self-restraint - displayed each year at Wimbledon - became known to millions.

The Government provides maintenance loans for all students, but in some cases they only cover a quarter of the cost.

James Cleverly unveiled plans to 'target and dismantle Russian intelligence gathering operations' in what may be one of the most significant steps of its kind since the end of the Cold War.

Passengers arriving in the UK late on Tuesday faced chaos into the early hours after a wi-fi outage knocked out the £372million IT system used for security checks.

Judicious editing would remove the steamy scenes of Rachel smooching on Suits.If the BBC desist with the censorial scissors, viewers will perceive that Meghan didn't entirely get her own way.

CRAIG BROWN: Happy birthday, Alan Bennett (pictured)! It's hard to believe but today the great man of letters is 90 years old.

Rishi Sunak will tell vice-chancellors they must fulfil their duty of care as pro-Palestine protests intensify on campuses. 

Tory MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to Labour, hitting out at the 'broken promises of Rishi Sunak 's tired and chaotic government'.

Yesterday I visited the camp, which is spread out on a large expanse of grass at Oxford University. It has become boggy, and is littered with folded black bin bags, which may have contained excrement.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: In his counter-cultural opus Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American journalist Hunter S Thompson observed: 'When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Ransomware infections have morphed into "a psychological attack against the victim organization," as criminals use increasingly personal and aggressive tactics to force victims to pay up, according to Google-owned Mandiant. "We saw situations where threat actors essentially SIM swap the phones of children of executives, and start making phone calls to executives, from the phone numbers of their children," Charles Carmakal, Mandiant's CTO, recounted during a Google Security Threat Intelligence Panel at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. "Think about the psychological dilemma that the executive goes through – seeing a phone call from the children, picking up the phone and hearing that it's somebody else's voice? Sometimes, it's caller ID spoofing. Other times, we see demonstrated SIM swapping family members." Either way, it's horrifying. It's the next step in the evolution of ransomware tactics, which have now moved far beyond simply encrypting victims' files and even stealing their data. "There are a few threat actors that really have no rules of engagement in terms of how far [they] try to coerce victims," Carmakal noted, recalling ransomware incidents in which the criminals have directly contacted executives, their family members, and board members at their homes. The criminals have moved from just staging an attack against a company, its customers and their data, and becomes "more against the people," he added. It changes the calculation involved in deciding whether to pay the extortion demand, Carmakal said. "It's less about 'do I need to protect my customers?' But more about 'how do I better protect my employees and protect the families of employees?' That's a pretty scary shift."

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She sang Diamonds Are Forever - but Dame Shirley Bassey (pictured) is to auction some of her jewels for charity.

Local elections are about who you want to get planning decisions right. Councils shouldn't be debating chambers for foreign policy matters, but sadly many have become just that.