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Gap rallies after its Old Navy chain sales rebound

  Bloomberg Improvements in Old Navy’s product selection brought a sales surge to Gap Inc.’s biggest chain last month — and the stock’s biggest rally in almost eight years. The brand’s same-store sales gained 4 percent in September, Gap said. Analysts had projected growth of less than 1 percent, according to Retail Metrics. The results helped offset an overall sales ...

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Cathay Pacific flies Boeing 747 over Hong Kong one last time

  AFP Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific bid farewell to its Boeing 747 fleet with a final low-altitude flyby over the city’s iconic skyline. The final route harked back to dramatic images of the planes flying low over rooftops of apartment blocks as they used to approach the old airport on the harbour. The flight, codenamed CX8747, flew over ...

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S Africa basks in continent’s first solar-powered airport

  AFP At first glance there’s nothing out of the ordinary about the regional airport in George, a town of just 150,000 residents on South Africa’s south coast. In fact though, the small site is Africa’s first “green” airport to be powered by the sun. The control tower, escalators, check-in desks, baggage carousels, restaurants and ATMs — every service here ...

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