Munster / DPA This mummy has probably had a more eventful afterlife than anything in the three-decade lifespan of the Egyptian man who died and was embalmed and wound in bandages 2,700 years ago. Somewhere along the way the body lost its head, and it may have attended high-school parties in the role of a spook. Apart from lacking …

  Chichigalpa / DPA Death lurks in the sugarcane fields. He reaps the strong young men, sometimes before they’ve even turned 30. The ones who get away are marked for life, sick and unfit for work. “We’re the walking dead,” says former sugarcane cutter Juan Salgado. There’s a mysterious illness making its way around Central America. It has already claimed …

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Central Bank has announced that the Money Supply aggregate ‘M1’ increased by 0.3% from AED472.6 billion at the end of November 2016 to AED474 billion at the end of December 2016. In its statement, the bank added that Money Supply aggregate ‘M2’ increased by 1%, from AED1212.9 billion at the end of November …