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Hard to believe: The wine industry produces 3bn litres of unwanted wine every year. A lot of it ends up running cars in Brazil. But could the industry be organised better? 

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While many previously buoyant island states across the Caribbean are now struggling, Jamaica’s crisis is the deepest. Virtually every Jamaican is feeling the impact of a protracted economic stagnation and the austerity imposed by an IMF bailout earlier this year. Even a tropic storm could be enough to push the economy over the edge.

A Chinese rover has made tracks in the soft moon dust, a further step in the country's goal to land a man on the moon by 2025.

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The founder of Alibaba personifies the Chinese internet – with all its potential and its contradictions. Alibaba's sales now exceed those of eBay and Amazon combined and make up about 2 per cent of China’s gross domestic product.

Free to read: How will a Fed taper affect fragile emerging markets economies? http://on.ft.com/1kUEoNc

The economies of Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey have been identified as particularly vulnerable to the effects of the US Federal Reserve scaling back its massive monetary stimulus programme. This is in part due to their large current account deficits. We look at how well these countries - which all face elections in 2014 - have prepared and what still needs to be done.

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Back pain has become the scourge of the modern office worker. A 2004 study found that Americans spent $90bn a year on it. Google tackled the problem by hiring a specialist to teach staff how to sit, bend and stand correctly. Done properly, back pain can disappear in six lessons. 

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Oil prices have remained stable for years. Jack Farchy, commodities correspondent, suggests to John Authers that this has been due to reduced supply in countries like Libya and Iran, and that prices could easily fall in 2014. 

Free to read: How well did Ben Bernanke handle the financial crisis? http://on.ft.com/1cwkaor

The outgoing chairman of the US Federal Reserve missed many of the danger signals leading up to the crash. But arguably his policies prevented the Great Recession from turning into a repeat of the Great Depression.

Like an Olympic gymnast the world economy is performing impressively, but balance is crucial. Alex Friedman, global chief investment officer at UBS, tells the FT's John Authers the beam is wide going into 2014 so wobble risk is low, and suggests how different asset classes may fare.