Reports claim that the technology giant could be prepared to pay as much as $3.2 billion for the headphone maker and music-streaming service provider, which was founded by music producer Jimmy Iovine and rapper Dr Dre.

If completed, the deal would become Apple’s largest ever acquisition and is being seen as a move by the company to cement itself further in the phone and music accessories business, while also bolstering its online music offerings, two areas that are predicted to see massive growth in the coming years.

In the past the port has been controlled by the Portuguese, the sultan of Zanzibar, and the British. Today, Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), a state-run enterprise, is responsible for the port. The city of Mombasa, its port and the facilities around it, as well as the railway that runs from the coast to Rwanda Uganda and Burundi are important to the economy of the whole of East Africa. Transit trade to these countries, the DRC, Tanzania and South Sudan accounts for 30 percent of the port's throughput and this proportion is growing by up to ten percent a year.

Landlocked within north-central Africa, Chad is among the world’s poorest countries, hindered by its desert climate and the fact that it has been ravaged by various civil wars during thirty of its forty years of independence. For decades the country suffered from a lack of economic investment, leaving it with one of the continents poorest infrastructure networks and a large majority of its adult population living below the poverty line.

Located in the eastern plateau area of South Africa known as the Highveld, Johannesburg is country’s largest city by population and the provincial capital of Gauteng, which boasts the largest economy of any metropolitan region in all of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Tucked into a corner of Chaleur Bay in north-eastern New Brunswick (NB), Bathurst claims to be the only truly bilingual municipality in Canada, with exactly half its 12,000 population claiming English as their first language, half French, and most of them comfortable with either. The body of water to the north may have been named with irony – this is northern Canada and much of the year chaleur is in short supply.

Located within one of the most prospective copper regions in the world, Barrick Gold’s Lumwana copper mine is one of Zambia’s best examples of a prosperous mining operation. Situated within a stable jurisdiction with a long history of mining and boasting established infrastructure, Lumwana possess a large, high potential copper deposit and a multi-decade reserve life.

The theory of graphene was itself first explored in 1947 by PR Wallace, work that is now widely recognised as the starting point behind the understanding of the electronic properties of 3D graphite. A crystalline allotrope of carbon with two-dimensional properties, high-quality graphene was a long sought after commodity due to its properties which make it strong, light and an excellent conductor of heat and electricity.

AirAsia India is a budget airline set up by AirAsia, one of the continent’s largest low-cost carriers, and India’s Tata Group.

The relationship between the online retailer and the social network will see users becoming able to add products to their shopping carts by tweeting a special hashtag.

They can do so by replying to tweets containing a link to an Amazon product with #amazoncart in the US and #amazonbasket in the UK. Users will still then need to go to Amazon to pay and complete the purchase.

‘Blue-sky thinking’, ‘pinging emails’ and ‘drilling down’ have been named as some of the most annoying office phrases – according to a new poll.

Jargon clichés such as ‘running something up the flagpole’, ‘thinking outside the box’ and ‘taking something offline’, also featured prominently.

Nearly eight in ten, 79%, of office workers also confessed to using at least two examples of cringeworthy office jargon each day.