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Old locomotives attract train-spotters to Nuremberg railway museum

  DPA A German electric locomotive from 1933 is one of five historic items of rolling stock recently added to the DB Museum, a Nuremberg, Germany museum that is paradise for trainspotters. The 1933 engine, which was built by the Wismar/SSW engine works and used to haul passenger and freight trains in southern and central Germany, is one of three ...

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Turkey’s world expo has a ‘greener world’ theme

  DPA “A greener world” is the underlying theme at the just-opened world exposition in Turkey’s southern coastal city of Antalya, a place which, with its mass tourism industry and towering concrete hotel complexes, is not exactly known as an environmental paradise. Turkish officials hope this jaded image will be improved when visitors see the EXPO 2016 Antalya International Horticultural ...

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Netflix launches tool for mobile data controls

  San Francisco/ AFP Netflix released a new tool to help people viewing streamed television shows on mobile devices avoid costly bills for high data use. The move comes shortly after Netflix expanded its service to nearly every country on the planet, wooing potential subscribers in vast array of places where smartphones are preferred devices for connecting to the Internet. ...

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