How Zara became the world’s biggest fashion retailer
A digital mirror that allows you to try on clothes without actually taking them off the shelf sits on one side of the room, next to it is a self-service till where shoppers can pay for their clothing and remove the security tag without a shop assistant. This is the future of retail in front of your... read more »
Royal Mail And Amazon Create 32,000 Xmas Jobs
More than 30,000 temporary jobs are to be created for the Christmas postal rush, it has been announced. Royal Mail said it would take on 19,000 additional workers and online retailer Amazon wanted 13,000 staff. Privatised last October, Royal Mail said the jobs will start in the middle of November... read more »
More Hikers Rescued From Deadly Nepal Route
Authorities in Nepal have closed a popular trekking route in the Himalayas after new hikers had to be rescued from the Annapurna area days after dozens were killed in blizzards and avalanches. Trekkers from Canada, India, Israel, Slovakia, Poland and Japan were among at least 39 who died as bad... read more »
Pakistan charity boss Abdul Sattar Edhi ‘heartbroken’ after rob...
Abdul Sattar Edhi, 86, was asleep when a gang of armed men raided the Karachi slum building that serves as his residence and charity headquarters. They made off with gold, silver and cash worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the raid early on Sunday. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and opposition... read more »
