by Mussa Hattar MADABA, Jordan (AFP) — Friends and family initially mocked one Jordanian family’s new venture making soap from donkey milk. But now, a year on, the company is cleaning up as customers bray for more. Atan Donkey Milk Soaps produces 100 percent natural soaps from its farm in Madaba, 35 kilometres (21 miles) southwest of Amman, where it keeps 12 donkeys, and a small manufacturing workshop in the Jordanian capital. Although other regions […]
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Meticulous restoration of China’s Great Wall is supported by mules
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – As the sun rises over one of the most dangerous and least-restored stretches of China’s Great Wall, a line of pack mules emerge from the gloom of a dense forest still draped in mist and dew. Laden with 10-kilogram bricks, the seven mules pause, then move again as their masters coax them into action, keen to gain some altitude before the heat of the day sets in. For more than a […]





