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  Emirates Business At IFA 2016, Huawei Consumer Business Group debuted the Huawei nova and the Huawei nova plus, the first smartphones in the new series designed to meet the needs of today’s most dynamic consumers. The new nova series features stunning multi-curve design features, camera advances for more vivid photography and performance updates for enhanced usability. Every feature of ...

  AFP On bakery walls, buildings and roadside sheeting in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, street artists fed up with war are painting for peace as young musicians, actors and artists campaign to end decades of conflict. A mural of a child in a singlet working at a sewing machine reads “the young who are tired are the ones who will ...

  DPA Martin Heimeier decided to leave the hole in the roof as it was, though it has been capped with some concrete. The cover over the 3.5-metre-wide gap gouged by the bomb — more about that later — has been painted gold and has a spotlight so that Heimeier’s tenants can light up the ceiling recess whenever they want. ...

  Bloomberg Traders who are better at listening to the clues their bodies give them about market patterns make more money and survive longer in the industry, according to a study by former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. derivatives trader-turned-neuroscientist John Coates. Coates, whose 2012 book “The Hour Between Dog and Wolf” revealed how traders’ decisions are influenced by biology, wanted ...

  DPA Just before the explosion, a warning signal sounds; a few seconds later Bernd Sauter presses the button marked “fire” and thousands of tons of rock come crashing down. Sauter works at a quarry belonging to a construction materials company, HeidelbergCement, and several times a month he gets to explode cliffs of limestone to be made into cement. “It’s ...

  DPA Joern and Tammo Glaeser are out on a shoot – taking still photos, film and drone footage. Judging by their equipment, anyone might think they were making a music video. But the brothers’ cameras are trained not on a pop star, but on a tractor with a short disc harrow. “This is a Fendt 939 Vario, only just ...

  AFP At a hostel for dozens of pregnant women, impoverished widow Sharmila Mackwan weighs up her decision to carry twins for another couple — her only ticket out of poverty — as the government moves to close India’s multi-million dollar surrogacy industry. She has left her own children at an orphanage for the whole nine months of her pregnancy ...

  AFP The forest around Manjau in Borneo once reverberated with the scream of chainsaws, as gangs of illegal loggers felled ancient hardwood trees for sale to timber merchants downstream. But many loggers in the remote Indonesian village are hanging up their chainsaws in return for affordable healthcare, through a community incentive scheme that aims to save lives and protect ...

  AFP When police heard about the frozen corpse up in the Alps in September 1991, they opened a criminal probe. Murder it was, but the crime was rather old — and the ultimate cold case. The dead man, found by hikers 25 years ago this week a snowball’s throw from the Austrian-Italian border and put in a wooden coffin ...

  AFP When greyhound owner Zac Kessanis comes to Sydney’s Wentworth Park to watch his much-loved dog race, he’s not so much interested in the prizemoney as in simply seeing her run. “For 30 seconds we’re on top of the world, we’re so proud, no matter what,” he says of watching the black greyhound named Ella Has Class sprint the ...