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BEIJING, China (Reuters) – A car hit a tricycle at a crossroads in Haimen City of east China’s Jiangsu Province on Wednesday, leaving the tricycle driver trapped underneath the car, as shown by footage from roadside monitoring cameras. The car overturned on its side after hitting the tricycle and then trapped the elderly driver of the tricycle. Many passers-by came over to help lift the car and pull out the trapped driver. “The old man […]
ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) – Greek politicians including a former prime minister visited on Thursday (May 25) the hospital where former premier Lucas Papademos was taken after being injured when a booby-trapped package exploded in his car in central Athens, the worst act of violence targeting politicians in the crisis-hit country for several years. Papademos, who served a brief stint as caretaker prime minister in late 2011 to mid-2012, did not have life-threatening injuries, authorities said. […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — A vending machine that dispenses luxury cars to well-heeled buyers is the latest space-saving innovation in land-starved Singapore — just don’t try to shake it if it gets stuck. Used car dealer Gary Hong has taken to displaying his wares in a glass-fronted, 15-storey building. Like choosing a chocolate bar, the buyer can see everything on display, before pressing some buttons and having their choice delivered. Hong, 45, said he got […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in New York’s bustling Times Square on Thursday, leaving one person dead and at least 19 others injured in what officials said was an accident. The incident sparked instant jitters after recent deadly car-ramming attacks in London, Berlin and the French city of Nice, but officials said early evidence did not point to a terror link. “It is believed to be […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Microscopic molecular vehicles piloted by chemists and physicists will line up in the world’s first nano-car race in France this month — but don’t expect to see anything with the naked eye. Teams from France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the United States and a joint Austrian-American group have qualified, but only four will get to compete on April 28-29, organisers of the race said Tuesday. Sponsored by France’s National Center for Scientific […]
by Guy JACKSON Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate will pay an official visit to Paris on Friday and Saturday, months before the 20th anniversary of the death of William’s mother Diana in a car crash in the French capital. The second-in-line to the throne and his spouse will meet President Francois Hollande and launch an initiative called “Les Voisins” (The Neighbors) designed to foster closer relations […]
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) — The team behind the world’s first driver less electric racing series unveiled its first real autonomous car at the World Mobile Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on Monday (February 27). The sleek Roborace vehicle is around five meters long, two meters wide, and weighs in at 975 kilograms. It is entirely driver less, with a computer “brain” using information from sensors to direct the Robocar. It has four motors of 300kW each, […]
by Frankie TAGGART LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The car that fatally crushed “Star Trek” actor Anton Yelchin had been under recall over fears that it could roll off without warning, it emerged on Monday. Friends discovered the Russian-born actor pinned against a brick mailbox pillar and security fence at his California home by his Jeep Grand Cherokee in the early hours of Sunday. Investigators said the actor, who was just 27, had momentarily […]
TOYOTA CITY, AICHI PREFECTURE, Japan (Reuters) — Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday (February 18) it is conducting a global recall of 2.87 million vehicles due to the possibility that their seatbelts could be damaged by a metal seat frame part in the event of a crash. In an email, the world’s biggest-selling automaker said that the global recall involved its RAV4 SUV model produced between July 2005 and August 2014 and sold worldwide, and […]
New York- and Japan-based Taiwanese artist Lin Shih-Pao has spent the past four months working on an unusual project — a life-size car made out of 25,000 mobile phones. The project, he says, is intended to spread environmental awareness. The car was unveiled at Lin’s former high school in new Taipei city just in time for the annual school concert. Students inspected the work and marveled at the color scheme. Some even participated in creating […]
Twenty-nine (29) road sections are closed to traffic, eight (8) in CAR, seven (7) in Region II and fourteen (14) in Region III due to Typhoon “Lando”. Per monitoring report as of 6 AM of October 19, 2015 to Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Rogelio L. Singson, Kennon Road was ordered closed to traffic due to falling debris/landslides. Several other road sections in CAR remain not passable to all types of vehicles due to […]
MANILA, Oct. 19 (PNA) – Malacañang has suspended government work in the regions heavily affected by typhoon “Lando.” According to the memorandum issued by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. Sunday night, the government work is suspended in Regions 1, 2, 3 and Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). He said the suspension was based on the recommendation of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC). Ochoa, however, the government personnel directly involved in the delivery […]
