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GM sells Hummer to China and saves 3,000 jobs

GM sells Hummer to China and saves 3,000 jobs

A Chengdu-based machinery company is close to clinching a deal to buy General Motors’ (GM) Hummer brand, making it the first Chinese company to own an American carmaker. Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company is expected to spend between $150 million (£90 million) and $250 million on Hummer, the gas-guzzling brand of sports utility vehicles popularised by Arnold Schwarzenegger before... [Read more]

Missing plane sent 24 error messages

Missing plane sent 24 error messages

Air France Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages — including one saying the aircraft’s autopilot had disengaged — before it vanished with 228 people on board, aviation investigators said Saturday. But even as they analyzed the error messages and satellite images of the doomed flight’s path, investigators said they still have a lot of work to determine what caused... [Read more]

29 children die in Mexico day care center fire

29 children die in Mexico day care center fire

Mexico — Twenty-nine children were killed and more than 100 others were injured Friday when their day care center caught fire in the northwestern state of Sonora, a spokesman for the state’s governor said. The victims were from 1 to 5 years old, said Jose Larrinaga, the spokesman. [Read more]  Read More →

Carradine’s body to return home, while questions remain

Carradine’s body to return home, while questions remain

David Carradine’s wife and his manager disputed suggestions that the actor’s death was a suicide, while rescue workers and police in Bangkok, Thailand, said the actor’s neck and genitals were found bound with rope. After Carradine’s body arrives back to the United States this weekend, an autopsy ordered by Carradine’s family will be conducted, according to the actor’s... [Read more]

Nude Carla Bruni photo auctions for $19,600

Nude Carla Bruni photo auctions for $19,600

BERLIN – A revealing photograph of former model and France’s current first lady Carla Bruni was bought for $19,600 by an anonymous bidder Thursday at a Berlin auction house. The image is one of 10 prints of a nude Bruni lounging in an unmade bed captured by American fashion photographer Pamela Hanson in 1994. [Read more]  Read More →

Lebanon election has designs on voters

Lebanon election has designs on voters

A beautiful woman glances seductively over her shoulder from a billboard on a busy Beirut thoroughfare. But it isn’t perfume or shampoo she’s selling: It’s politics. The ad, which urges women to “be beautiful and vote,” was one of the more controversial campaign advertisements rolled out by parliamentary candidate Gen. Michel Aoun, whose party is allied with the Islamist... [Read more]

Hawaiians rule the waves at Lower Trestles

Hawaiians rule the waves at Lower Trestles

On a balmy, humid afternoon during which two Hawaiians prevailed in major Southern California surfing contests, one of the sport’s biggest fans emerged minus his cardinal and gold but waving imaginary pompoms. Pete Carroll, USC’s football coach, spent Saturday admiring the methodical manner by which Fred Patacchia and Kai Barger diced through their respective opponents to claim titles... [Read more]