Bloomberg The unprecedented jetliner shopping spree that’s spanned more than a decade is drawing to a close. That’s bad news for Boeing Co. and Airbus Group SE, which face slowing jet sales and the highest level of airplane-delivery deferrals in at least 15 years. Unlike past retrenchments triggered by terrorism or recession, demand has also been hurt by the …

  Hamburg / DPA Many bookworms baulked when singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. But the highbrow position traditionally occupied by authors is now also being encroached upon by computer games designers, who are challenging traditional forms of storytelling and breaking the boundaries of narrative. One of these is Jan Mueller-Michalis, also known as Poki, …

  Honiara / DPA Robert Satu has spent his whole life in a community near Honiara in the Solomon Islands, a South Pacific nation where steep hills often leave little space for settlements. “From the main road to the sea was more than 120 metres,” the village elder says in a documentary about the effects of climate change. “It’s now 55 …