Bloomberg If you want an example of China’s rising consumer class, take a look at the burgeoning demand to play video games. Sales will jump an average 7.4 percent a year from 2016 to 2020, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. That’s higher than the 4.8 percent rate forecast for the industry worldwide, PwC said in its global entertainment and media ...

  Bloomberg Urban rooftops are buzzing across France, but the fad for beekeeping from Montpellier to Lille to Paris — including atop AFP’s headquarters — will do little do reverse declining bee populations, experts say. The northern city of Lille was a pioneer in efforts to defend the bee by providing pesticide-free environments, and it was among the first to ...

  DPA Friederike Kolb is 100 years old and never thought she’s be able to dance again. “When I was a young girl I used to love dancing and I still really love it,” she says. Every Wednesday morning social worker Gerburg Cartus gives quite a special dance lesson at the Frankenhoehe senior citizens home in Mainz, western Germany. The ...