Taipei / Bloomberg Acer’s announcement that it will work with the Swedish games maker Starbreeze to produce a virtual-reality headset could be the ailing PC maker’s most brilliant move in years. Or it could be a colossal failure. According to their joint release, the companies plan to form a joint venture to design, make and sell the StarVR headset. ...

  Moscow / AFP Moscow’s Aragvi restaurant — once the legendary haunt of KGB spies and cosmonauts — has reopened with its Soviet-era grandeur restored.The high-end eatery on the main Tverskayastreet, which opened in 1938 at the height of Stalin’s purges, has re-launched under the same name after a $20 million (17 million euros) restoration. The restaurant opened on the ...

  Munich / DPA Everybody knows that environmental pollution is bad for animals and plants. But in Lake Constance, bordered by three European nations, the opposite is proving true. At moderate levels, some types of environmental pollution are nourishing for fish. Over the last 30 years, the lake wedged between Germany, Austria and Switzerland has become so clean that the ...