Honda Motor Co. will enter the aircraft production and sales business, published reports said Tuesday, amid expectations the automaker will soon sell small jets its CEO has previously called the “Honda Civic of the sky.”

Just as most consumers have finished moving from VHS to DVD, two new formats are being positioned as DVD successors. Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs promise even richer video and sound, and still more features, bonuses and (of course) ads.

Minority women are just as dissatisfied with their bodies as white women, an analysis of 98 studies published in a psychological journal finds.

A survey in China focusing on online matchmaking for the first time shows that more than 70% of the respondents believe the Internet can provide more opportunities for them to make friends, and over 80% accept the phenomenon of finding marriage partners online, 30% of whom would like to have a try.

A new European Union proposal bans airlines from advertising airfares that hide fuel surcharges, baggage fees and other airline add-ons. Airlines are also prevented from charging passengers different rates in different countries.

An undated handout photo of Canadian company Solestrom’s new bikini that goes on sale in August 2006 with a UV meter built into its belt and an alarm that beeps to tell wearers when to head to the shade.

According to MyHeritage.com, everyone has a little celebrity inside. Largely meant for charting family trees and as a genealogy community, the Web site also boasts an addictive face recognition technology that blurs the boundary between the great unwashed and the thoroughly groomed.

China’s 150 million entrepreneurs and professionals contribute a third of total tax revenues, The Outlook Weekly reported yesterday.

Plans for a secretive commercial space venture backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos were coming under public review Tuesday at a government hearing.

There’s a heatwave out there. Fancy a steaming bowl of soup? Not really? So what happens to the stacks of unsold fresh soup stacked up in supermarkets up and down the land?

Paramilitary police have been sent to protect terrified villagers in southern Sierra Leone after wild bush cows attacked their homes and gored a farmer to death, police said on Tuesday.

The Shanghai Securities Journal reports that the housing system in China now faces a historical change. With property developers mainly controlling the housing market, housing system in China’s urban areas cannot develop in a sustainable way. In China, it shouldn’t be ignored that more and more people in cities cannot afford to buy a house […]

Last week, WPP Group became the second ad agency conglomerate to make an investment in the social networking arena in recent weeks. It is clear that agencies are keen to understand the impact of social networks on advertising as well as to turn a profit off of their investments.