Soure / DPA After only a minute, sergeant Vitelli Cassiano’s patrol comes to an abrupt stop. There’s nothing he can do but wait. A huge, black cowpat splatters onto the sandy red track. Once his Asian water buffalo has relieved itself, however, it immediately returns to duty. For the last 23 years, the Brazilian policeman has been a proud …

  Stade / DPA When David Betker left the army, he wondered what to do next. The corporal had spent eight years in the German military, including time in Kabul, Afghanistan. Then he came across a newspaper article about training as a butler in England. That might sound like a drastic change of career, but as Betker, 29, says of …

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia has promised it will reduce the overall tax rate paid by its national oil company to make its 2018 initial public offering — potentially one of the largest in history — more appealing to investors. “Definitely the fiscal regime will be changed,” Saudi Arabian Oil Co. Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser said in a Bloomberg Television …