If you are a movie fan and you like studying English, you might just be interested in the latest initiative of the Hollywood movie studio Warner Brothers. The company has released a series of screenplays of its classic movies as eBooks. The scripts are full of images, diagrams and facts in addition to the conversations and dialogues from the films. Now English students can read up on the movie and read along while they watch it. The digital scripts also give English teachers a valuable new tool to use in the classroom. Many students like to learn English via movies. The eBooks are currently on sale on Amazon.com at around $8. The books can be downloaded on Apple's iBookstore and are available for the Nook eBook reader. So far only a small selection of movie scripts has been released. These include An American in Paris, Ben Hur, Casablanca and North by Northwest. President of Warner Brothers digital distribution Thomas Gewecke explained why he thinks the new products will prove popular: "People love movies because of the stories they tell," he said. "Now we can give fans rarely seen details of how these stories came together and take their enjoyment of films to a whole new level," he added. Mr Gewecke said the eBooks are just for classic movies at the moment but that books for newer movies will be released in the future. It will be some time however before the eBook coincides with the movie release.

A court in Australia has ordered the fast-food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to pay $8.3m in compensation to the family of a seven-year-old girl. The youngster was left severely brain damaged after eating a KFC Chicken Twister that contained salmonella poisoning. Little Monika Samaan became seriously ill after eating the sandwich at a Sydney restaurant in 2005. She has since been confined to a wheelchair with brain damage and is unable to speak. Monika's father told the court that he and his family all fell ill with vomiting and diarrhoea after sharing the Twister. Monika’s parents and brother all recovered, but she stayed in a coma for six months and was in hospital for seven.

KFC denied it was responsible for Monika’s condition and said it would not pay a single cent in damages. It said it was “deeply disappointed” by the decision and intends to appeal. The company’s lawyer argued during the trial that the family never bought a Twister. He told the court there was no sales data to prove the family purchased one. He told Mr Samaan: “You did not tell anyone at the hospital…that you had shared a KFC Twister.” Former employees told the court about the unsanitary practices at the eatery. One said: “If the store was particularly busy, then even if chicken dropped on the floor ... it was on some occasions simply put back into the burger station from where it had fallen.”