German carmaker Volkswagen and Japan’s Sanyo Electric Co will jointly develop a lithium-ion battery to be used in hybrid and electric cars, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Sunday.

Drivers in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou now can withdraw money without leaving their vehicles, as China Construction Bank has opened the first drive-through cash machine in the city. The ATM is located at the Riverside Garden Exit of Route...

Watch out, battery-powered MAVs — your viability could be seriously in danger. Based on a patent application from University of Florida aerospace engineer Subrata Roy, he’s reckoning that a micro air vehicle could be propelled by plasma....

Two of the largest and longest studies so far show a “brain pacemaker” can effectively treat depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), researchers said. Devices implanted in the chest, with leads that send electrical impulses to parts of...

Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages.

She may be cute, but the latest top model to make her debut in Vogue is also podgy with short legs and whiskers. Hello Kitty, a popular cat character in Japan, is set for a designer makeover in the June issue of Japanese Vogue, which goes on sale on...

A sore throat is not exactly the most obvious side effect of having your appendix out but for Jeff Scholtz it was proof he had secured his place in medical history. Mr Scholtz is one of the first patients in the world to have his appendix removed...

According to Cancer Research UK, young people who go a tanning salon and hop on a sunbed are increasing their risk of developing the deadliest form of skin cancer by 75%. Cancer Research UK carried out research to look at the dangers of tanning salons...

The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline rose to a record high of $3.33, up one and five-tenths of a cent from the previous day’s record-setting price of $3.32, AAA reported Monday. A report out Sunday by Publisher...

We all have our favourite. Jennifer Aniston loves Prada, Kate Bosworth is a fan of Jo Malone Vintage, and Claudia Schiffer favours anything with Tuberose. Cameron Diaz? She prefers Brown Thomas’s Clean, and Sienna Miller adores the “fresh...