Authorities warned Friday of traffic gridlock in Beijing over the weekend as a national holiday ended, state media reported, further exacerbating the capital's congestion woes.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday pledged a billion euros to help German cities fight air pollution caused by dirty diesel cars, as a scandal strangling the automobile industry threatened to engulf politicians at the height of an election campaign.
Yahoo!'s board of directors fired chief executive Carol Bartz on Tuesday, less than three years after she was brought in to help turn around the struggling Internet company.
Fired Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz has responded to her dismissal with a characteristically salty blast at the board of directors of the Internet company.
Plans by mining companies to dig for gold in Romania and Greece have triggered massive opposition, with academics and environmentalists stressing that risks far outweigh benefits for the Balkan nations.
Chinese internet giant Baidu on Thursday announced a $1.5 billion investment in autonomous driving projects over the next three years, as it seeks to diversify its portfolio and compete with rivals such as Google.
The crash of an Ivorian Mi-24 military helicopter on September 10 in northern Ivory Coast, killing five people, was due to bad weather, the head of the armed forces has said.
Texting under the table should be a thing of the past when French children return to class Monday following a nationwide ban on mobile phones in schools.
Chinese car maker BYD, backed by US investment titan Warren Buffett, on Monday denied reports of mass layoffs but said a "reshuffle" was under way in its sales and management teams.
Britain's media regulator on Thursday allowed pay-TV giant BSkyB to keep broadcasting, but blasted former boss James Murdoch for failing to uncover the hacking scandal at his father's empire.
Fast-growing economies Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia will drive a "massive digital revolution" in coming years as disposable incomes increase, a study released Wednesday suggested.
BMW and Mazda lead the way in cutting auto emissions, well ahead of their rivals in the hunt for cleaner cars as new European Union targets begin to bear green fruit, a report showed Tuesday.
German luxury carmaker BMW said Thursday it aimed to mass produce its first hydrogen-powered car in 2028, using fuel cell technology jointly developed with Japan's Toyota.
The group that runs Paris car-sharing scheme Autolib' said Tuesday it had filed a criminal complaint accusing German carmaker BMW of using spies to gather information on its electric cars.
The aviation sector must meet "ambitious" goals enshrined in the Paris Climate Accords to reduce its carbon footprint, the head of an international air transport body said Tuesday.
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on Thursday urged the air transport industry to press on with curbs on emissions, underlining that it held "critical keys" to tackling global warming.
