If you think your job is grueling, this boy begs to differ.

Now THIS is what I call a lightning strike!  (w/pic)

Mitsubishi has erected a tall, skinny, hollow tower filled with elevator shafts for testing high-speed lifts.

Driving while talking on a handheld mobile phone has long been considered a danger.
But even motorists who use handsfree devices are a nuisance - because they are slowing everyone else down, according to a study.

Guerilla Gardening, like its name suggest, is an illicit act of planting and cultivation of greeneries in neglected urban areas.

A northern Indian state said yesterday it planned to use unemployed youths to sterilize monkeys to try to combat aggressive primates who have been raiding farms. The idea drew immediate condemnation from conservationists, who said the plan was unscientific and would likely worsen the problem.

Rare turtle remains were recently discovered in central China’s Henan province. It was discovered by a local resident in a river in Jiaxian, located in Pingdingshan City.

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit project run by MIT
professor Nicholas Negroponte, aimed to sell $100 laptops to the
world’s poor children. Intel said on Thursday it will drop out of the One Laptop Per Child
project and resign from the board after the project’s board demanded
the chipmaker stop supporting other efforts in emerging markets.

Rising prices of consumer goods have become the top concern of urban
and rural residents, followed by "income gap" and "corruption,"
according to a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

According to estimates, 2008 will be a big catch-up year for Indian e-commerce. ”E-commerce transactions, which are currently growing at the
rate of 30% to 40% in India, are expected to reach $100 billion in 2008," Bikky Khosla, CEO of the B2B portal Tradeindia told the Economic Times.

Over-the-air analog TV signals are set to cease next year, and many US households are ready for the change. But the remaining "half-empty glass" is good news for TV makers.

Scientists have identified a gene that helps protect mice against intestinal
tumours, although it may also play a role in spreading breast cancer, according
to a study published on
Thursday.