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A woman presents a massage toy during the opening day of the 16th "Venus" erotic fair in Berlin October 18, 2012. The event represents the erotic business in the German capital and runs until October 21. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

INDIA RISING

Bold entrepreneurs are helping Indians have better sex, one vibrator at a time

Engineering students from various colleges prepare their smart cars before taking part in the 'unique intelligent car race' for engineering students organized by Freescale Semiconductor India in association with Centre for Electronic Design and Technology (CEDT) from the Indian Institute of Science, in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, on 19 September 2011. Around 127 teams from 35 engineering college students across India, take part in the Freescale's global imitative to promote innovation among engineering students and offer them a hands on opportunity to their engineering skills to test by creating microcontroller (MCU) programming that enables model cars to perform optimally under test conditions during the race.

WHAT AN IDEA

India is betting on compulsory internships to improve its unemployable engineers

India-chocolate-consumption

BEAN TO BAR

The quest to create quality chocolate for a country obsessed with Cadbury

A couple in Rize, Turkey.

NO MORE VANILLA

A halal guide to mind-blowing sex is teaching Muslim women how to set the bed on fire

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