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Acai berry craze: boon or threat for the Amazon?
Acai berry craze: boon or threat for the Amazon?
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Working in the sweltering heat of the Brazilian Amazon, Jose Diogo scales a tree and harvests a cluster of black berries: acai, the trendy "superfood" reshaping the world's biggest rainforest -- for better and worse. "Things get a lot better for us every harvest season," he says, scraping the small berries into a large basket.

'Dune: Part Two' pushed back to 2024 as Hollywood strikes bite
'Dune: Part Two' pushed back to 2024 as Hollywood strikes bite
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Warner Bros. has pushed back the hotly anticipated release of sci-fi sequel "Dune: Part Two" until next year and postponed two other films -- one of the biggest changes so far to the movie calendar amid the ongoing actors' and writers' strikes. In July, Sony Pictures pushed back two of its major 2023 releases into 2024 -- a "Ghostbusters" sequel and the comic book adaptation "Kraven the Hunter."