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TOYOTA says it has sold one million Prius hybrids in the United States. The automaker said on Wednesday that the Prius has been the top-selling hybrid in the US since it went on sale 11 years ago. The Prius is powered by both a gasoline engine and an electric motor. It can get up to […]

One of the world’s largest concrete pumps is driven into the belly of a Russian Antonov AN-24 cargo jet at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Friday. The pump is one of two being sent to Japan to assist with radiation containment at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The pump comes mounted on a 26-wheel […]

A gunman roamed the halls of an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and killed 12 children, lining them up against a wall and shooting them in the head at point-blank range as he shouted, “I’m going to kill you all!” It was the worst school shooting in Brazil — and would have […]

Britain called on Monday for the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, a prominent critic of the ruling Communist Party who was detained by police as he was about to board a plane to Hong Kong. “I am very concerned by reports that Ai Weiwei has been detained by the Chinese authorities,” Foreign Secretary William […]

..Japan on Monday started to dump more than 10,000 tons of low-level radioactive water into the Pacific as part of emergency operations to stabilise its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The last-resort measure came after the Bank of Japan said business confidence had plummeted since the earthquake and tsunami hit on March 11, plunging the […]

LIKE humans, it has been revealed that sharks and rays enjoy visiting cleansing ‘stations’ to get rid of their dead skin and external parasites, the Discovery Channel reported last Friday. A research team at the school of ocean sciences at University of Wales carried out the study to monitor the interactions between thresher sharks and […]

TIGER Woods is now giving lessons on mobile phones. Woods has launched a mobile application called Tiger Woods: My Swing for the iPhone and iPod touch that aims to help golfers of all skill levels improve through video analysis and instruction. It costs US$9.99 and proceeds go to the Tiger Woods Foundation. Woods is going […]

A NEW study has found that a virus causing deadly respiratory diseases in humans can be passed on to critically endangered mountain gorillas in Central Africa. Researchers who spent time in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park said they found traces of Human Metapneumovirus during post-mortem examinations of two gorillas that died in 2009. The two were […]

Is William Shatner officially a billionaire? He may be, thanks to Priceline.com. Quietly PCLN shares have surged to yet another record high. They’re up nearly $90 bucks this year alone and are closing in on $500. When Captain Kirk .. er, Shatner .. became Priceline’s pitchman more than a decade ago, he smartly (or desperately) […]

Children who had psychological problems have a greater likelihood of becoming adults who suffer money and relationship woes, said a British study published in the United States. The analysis in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences was based on information about a group of 17,634 children born in Britain in the first week […]