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  Bloomberg The election of Donald Trump has been stock market manna for every industry that benefits from an expanding economy but one: technology.Losses among computer and software makers mushroomed and were pronounced in the FANG block of Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc., each of which fell at least 1.9 percent. The Nasdaq 100 ...

  AFP Facebook accidentally declared its founder Mark Zuckerberg and many other users dead on Friday, acknowledging after fixing the problem that it had committed a “terrible error.” “For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialized profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts,” a Facebook spokesperson said. “This was a terrible error that we have now fixed.” Media ...

  Emirates Business Label Ritu Kumar’s latest festival chic collection is modern and progressive clothing, which gives one an effortless urbane look. Explore the world in this collection, with its simple style, bohemian flair, and cheerful colours to unleash your inner traveller. This collection symbolises elegance and sophistication, while ensuring every piece is functional and wearable. Choose from various long ...

  Relaxnews The second part of the sale of fashion magnate Pierre Berge’s famous library — one of the most valuable in private hands — raised nearly five million euros (£5.5 million) Wednesday when it went under the hammer in Paris. Some of the most rare first editions of classics of 19th century European literature were among the 376 works ...

  Relaxnews Fashion designer Stella McCartney unveiled her first menswear collection recently at London’s famous Abbey Road recording studio, where she promised men a more free and fun wardrobe. McCartney chose to present the collection at the recording studio made famous by her father, Paul McCartney, and his three fellow Beatles when they named one of their albums after Abbey ...

  Troy Patterson / Bloomberg Buried on page 86 of the October J. Crew catalog is a sentence to chill the blood of any man who has shopped for clothing in the past five years: “We widened our ties by ¼” to keep up with today’s changing proportions.” It is almost an aside. Nearly an afterthought! But for the loyal ...

  Relaxnews Pharrell Williams has unveiled his first fashion collection in his role as ‘Head of Imagination’ at denim brand G-Star RAW. Titled ‘Elwood X25’, the collection comprises a series of jeans in 25 different prints for men and women, ranging from animal patterns and bold florals to geometric, check and camouflage motifs. Each print was chosen by Williams to ...

  Bleiswijk / AFP Flowers more exotic than the humble tulip will soon flourish for the first time in Dutch greenhouses after intensive research into growing the capricious vanilla orchid to harvest one of the world’s most expensive spices. In the middle of potato fields in a central Dutch rural town, scientists from Wageningen University have for the past four ...

  Coihuín / AFP Farmers in southern Chile still remember when they could make a living just by picking up seaweed at the beach. Not just any seaweed, but the red algae used to make agar-agar — a jelly-like substance used in a plethora of products from ice cream to dietary supplements to cosmetics. Chile is one of the world’s ...

  CAIRO / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, held talks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi here on Thursday regarding the latest regional and international issues of mutual concern and ways to bolster strategic co-operation. The Abu Dhabi Crown Prince is currently visiting ...