Berlin / DPA Olafur Eliasson’s fascination with natural light led him to illuminate the Tate Gallery in London with a giant fake sun 13 years ago. Since that debut before the wider public, the Danish-Icelandic artist has made hundreds of thousands of small plastic suns that not only bring solar light to the darkest corners of the earth, but …

  Havana / DPA Carlos Caro is proud of his seed-planter: “Necessity is the mother of invention,” he says. Caro, a farmer in Cuba, assembled his machine completely out of old mechanical parts he gathered assiduously. The seeding device consists of old pipes and four inverted gas cylinders mounted on a chassis. Gravity does the rest — the weight of …

  ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) on Sunday reported its financial results for the nine month period ended September 30, 2016. Ala’a Eraiqat, Member of the Board and Group CEO, commented on the results, saying, “The bank delivered strong financial results for the nine month period of 2016, reporting a net profit AED 3.153 billion and …