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Hello, welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
My name's Ed Butler.
In today's edition, why a Chinese social media app that almost no one in America had heard of before this week is suddenly number one at a US app store.
Why an airline is suspending flights because of space junk.
And one British restaurateur's negative views about pineapple as a pizza topping.
He's willing to sell pineapple pizzas, but only if you can pay him over $100 for them.
We are not in favor of pineapple and pizza.
No, but obviously if people are that way inclined, then they can.
They can fork out 100 quid for it.
All of that to come later in the show.
First, though, to South Africa, where it has been an increasingly anxious time for relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners occupying a gold mine in the town of Stilfontein.
Yes, protesters like these people have been gathering en masse outside the mine south of Johannesburg, just as the security forces there have attempted to extract those inside.