Tokyo / Bloomberg As the average age of farmers globally creeps higher and retirement looms, Japan has a solution: Robots and driver-less tractors. The Group-of-Seven agriculture ministers met in Japan’s northern prefecture of Niigata for the first time in seven years to discuss how to meet increasing food demand as aging farmers retire without successors. With the average age …

New Mexico / DPA While Spaceport America, which claims to be the world’s first commercial spaceport, hasn’t yet launched any tourists into space, ordinary mortals can already tour the site. The futuristic building designed by rockstar architect Norman Foster is located in the middle of the desert in the US state of New Mexico. Here, it is hoped, rich tourists …

  Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business Kodak Alaris was created on September 3, 2013, by the UK Kodak Pension Plan (KPP) after it had taken over the Kodak Personalised Imaging and Document Imaging businesses from Eastman Kodak Company. Alaris is licenced to use the Kodak brand. Kodak Alaris is driven by the simple belief that ‘we can always find a …