Chinese-backed electric car unveiled at top gadget show

The automotive future according to a new electric carmaker looks an awful lot like a Corvette crossed with the Batmobile.

Smart-tech expected to generate $11 trillion in annual sales by 2025

Look around. How many computing devices do you see? Your phone, probably; maybe a tablet or a laptop. Your car, the TV set, the microwave, bedside alarm clock, possibly the thermostat, and others you've never noticed.

Iran-Saudi crisis deepens

Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran erupted into a full-blown diplomatic crisis as Riyadh and its Sunni Arab allies cut or reduced ties with Teheran, sparking global concern.

Sweden, Denmark tighten borders

Sweden on Monday imposed controls on travelers arriving from Denmark in a bid to curb an unprecedented influx of refugees, prompting knock-on measures from Denmark that triggered fresh concern for Europe's Schengen passport-free zone.

Drug cartel suspected behind murder of mayor

The Mexican drug cartel known as Los Rojos is suspected of being behind the murder of a mayor who was gunned down a day after taking office, authorities said on Monday.

Plutonium cache to be sent to US

Japan will send a huge cache of plutonium - enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs - to the United States as part of a deal to return the material that was used for research, reports and officials said on Tuesday.

Probe looks into sexual abuse of military kids

The children of US military members are victims in hundreds of incidents of sexual abuse each year, according to data the US Defense Department provided exclusively to The Associated Press.

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Cutting edge of a cosmetic craze

Lying on an operating table in northern Teheran, Nazanine said she wanted it all: a third nose job, her eyebrows tattooed and liposuction on her thighs to "fix" her figure.

Govt calls for return of multiplication tables for young pupils

Generations of older people in England were drilled almost daily in their math lessons to learn by heart their 'times' tables'. Computers, calculators and changes in teaching methods saw an end to the tradition.

Quake strikes India, neighboring countries

A powerful earthquake struck South Asia before dawn on Monday, killing at least nine people and injuring nearly 200, with efforts to rescue those trapped in rubble hampered by severed power supplies and telecommunication links.

New York State communities told to get homeless off streets

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday signed an order requiring communities statewide to take homeless people from the streets to shelters when temperatures reach freezing, saying he was ready for a legal challenge from anyone who believes "people have a civil right to sleep on the street and freeze to death".