Two-thirds of consumers say that they save regularly, but 31% say they have a hard time making ends meet, according to Experian-Gallup’s "Personal Credit Index" survey.

She said we couldn’t afford to drink beer anymore and that I’d have to quit…

In Yongjing County, in northwestern Gansu Province, more than two kilometres of walls were built flanking one side of a major road. Unlike sound insulation boards in cities, these walls are not used to reduce traffic noise in roadside village homes, but to hide them from sight of drivers and passersby.

The average wedding cost in urban China hits a record of 560,000 yuan (US$72,572), and young couples are heavily depending on parents’ financial aids to pave the way for their marriages, reported the Jiefang Daily Friday.

How small can a x86 motherboard get? Here’s the Pico-ITX by Via Technologies, and it’s the smallest one yet. It’s tiny enough to fit in the palm of your hand, a mere 4 x 3 inches. (w/pic)

Officials in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, are taking to the air in an attempt to make the city safer. The council has bought three mini remote-controlled airships which are soon to be launched to look down on the city monitoring criminal activity.

High temperatures can make an Australian lizard that is genetically male develop into a female. The finding throws new light on how sex is determined in reptiles.

In the Netherlands people can be naked in their gardens, the beach and recently the gym. But in America, even chocolate sculptures can’t be without clothes. Why is that?

Japan is set to launch its first lunar orbiter this summer, but exploring the moon is just part of the mission. The other goal is to catch up with China, the new leader in Asia’s space race.

Saying that search engine marketing is a highly concentrated industry is an understatement. Looking at the numbers, according to comScore, US Internet users performed 75.8% of their January 2007 searches on Google or Yahoo!, and Nielsen//NetRatings put the combined total at 76.4%.

The amount of litter on Britain’s beaches has increased by more than 90% since 1994, says an annual survey. The Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) Beachwatch survey of 358 areas found an average of two items of litter for each metre (3.3ft) of beach.

A once-secret bunker, located 60 meters beneath central Moscow, will soon be open to the public and may soon contain a museum devoted to the Cold War.