i.g. matal union and employers in southwestern germany have agreed on a four point three percent wage hike. the deal also allows more flexible working hours enabling employees to choose to work as little as twenty eight hours a week the deal covers nearly one million employees and could be extended across the country. to say saw the successful launch of the world's most powerful unmanned rocket the falcon heavy made by elon musk's private company space x. is capable of five million pounds of thrust and twice the payload of the current record holder this one lifted off with a red tesla roadster and an astronaut mannequin and released them into a solar orbit they could take them beyond mars. crops throughout africa are under threat from river ratio's larva the fall army were here in malawi farmers try to repel the past with mixtures of chili pepper and salt commercial insecticides have proven ineffective the crop munching pests arrived in nigeria in two thousand and sixteen and spread quickly there now affecting harvests in almost every sub-saharan country last year the infected at least hal