Relaxnews One product flying high in the consumer tech market this fall is the drone, whether mini-drones for leisure flyers or veritable winged racers. A host of new products are due out from September 2016, ahead of the imminent unveiling of GoPro’s first model. Parrot has been busy releasing a selection of drones for fall 2016, with two new ...

  Ouagadougou / AFP With the logo of his internet TV station on his black T-shirt, Inoussa Maiga energetically plucks corn stalks in northern Burkina Faso for a programme on farming in Africa. Maiga, 30, launched Agribusiness TV in May in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou, determined to change poor opinions about agricultural work held by African youth and to help ...

  New York / DPA Ashrita Furman started out with 27,000 star jumps — an exhausting exercise used by military fitness instructors — moved on to somersaults along a 20-kilometre route, and then to underwater pogo stick jumping. Furman, now 61, has set 621 records to the standards of the Guinness World Records, and 206 of them are still standing, ...