DPA The day doesn’t start too badly for fisherman Celmo Mantovani. His patch, the Copacabana, is at its best at 5.30 in the morning, the rising sun streaks the sky with red and gold, and the Sugarloaf mountain rears up black against it. Mantovani and a couple of colleagues push their 23-year-old boat, the El Shaday, into the water …

  AFP Thomas Kurz strokes the hood of his Plymouth Road Runner almost affectionately with a cloth. “It’s a 1970 model,” he says, alluding to the fact that this highly polished muscle-car with 335 horsepower under the hood is exactly as old as its owner. Kurz is a trained vehicle mechanic who specializes in US classics. Late last year, he …

  ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State of the UAE and Chairman of Abu Dhabi’s Masdar, has stressed that Abu Dhabi’s support of the first solar-powered flight around the globe by Solar Impulse 2 (Si2), a cooperative venture between the UAE and Switzerland, sends a positive message about the success of partnership …