PARIS / Reuters Zodiac Aerospace has announced shortening of average delays in aircraft seat production to days rather than months, sending its shares higher in a respite from factory congestion which disrupted airplane deliveries. The French aircraft interiors and systems manufacturer said it was on track to get its seats business back to normal within 18 months and also …

  Tokyo / Bloomberg As the average age of farmers globally creeps higher and retirement looms, Japan has a solution: Robots and driver-less tractors. The Group-of-Seven agriculture ministers met in Japan’s northern prefecture of Niigata for the first time in seven years to discuss how to meet increasing food demand as aging farmers retire without successors. With the average age …

New Mexico / DPA While Spaceport America, which claims to be the world’s first commercial spaceport, hasn’t yet launched any tourists into space, ordinary mortals can already tour the site. The futuristic building designed by rockstar architect Norman Foster is located in the middle of the desert in the US state of New Mexico. Here, it is hoped, rich tourists …