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Big rise in foreign travel by Britons

The number of trips by UK residents abroad increased by 9.4% last year, the largest rise since 1998, according to the Office for National Statistics.

How the Ivory Coast has become the world’s top exporter of cashew nuts.

The entrepreneur in South Africa producing custom-made bicycles.

Zimbabwe has just introduced “bond notes” to help solve a serious cash shortage and kick-start its economy.

Kanye West admitted he should have written to Zuckerberg on Facebook rather than tweeting.

Apple unveiled a revamped store design on San Francisco’s Union Square on Thursday, 15 years after it opened its first two stores

The huge success of artists like One Direction and Adele means that British artists accounted for one in every six albums sold worldwide last year.

Hate having to remember too many PINs or carry too many credit cards? Or just tired of heavy lifting? These prototypes are for you.

Whirlpool, the firm behind the faulty tumble dryers involved in a series of fires, is accused of “multiple failings” by the consumer group Which?

Brazil’s interim President, Michel Temer, names former energy minister Pedro Parente as the new boss of scandal-hit state-run oil firm Petrobras.