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Give a loud shout for Skoda's new Octavia dieselThe historic efforts of the food industry to produce a margarine that tastes and looks like butter have been matched of late in the car industry, where a great deal of development has gone into producing diesel engines that sound and perform like petrol engines.Nowadays there are cars whose names could be changed, without fear of mockery or prosecution, to I Can't Believe It's Not Petrol! But the Skoda Octavia SE 2.0 TDI is not among them. If the Skoda were a margarine, you'd use it only for baking cakes. I've been in black cabs that make less of a vibrating racket.Perhaps there's something to be said for not disguising diesels, but instead make a virtue of their noisy fuel efficiency. After all, why hide your principled effort to save the world (as well as a few quid at the petrol station)? Why conceal your conscientiousness? Better to shout loud, I've got a diesel and I'm proud.The Octavia does the shouting - or rumbling - for you. In a

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his family are looking for a new church, but his decision represents more than merely settling on a pew....

AndreV writes 'We've entered into an extraterrestrial quid pro quo with our Northern neighbors: After celebrating 25 years of the Canadarm's first venture into space, NASA has reached out (so to speak) to the Canadian Space Agency and begun research and development on a new generation of robotic arms, which would ultimately be used for the US agency's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle that will provide transportation for Moon missions and jaunts to the international space station. In exchange, Canada will trade the robotic-limb technology's use on Orion and other future US-manned spacecraft for flight time for Canadian astronauts. And seeing solid results shouldn't be far off — the engineering company designing the bionic branch, responsible for the previous Canadarms, has already begun investigating the effects of zero gravity on their components. (Another forward-looking project being bartered for astronaut time is a rover for the Moon and Mars.) Fair trade?' of this stor

DENVER -- Cole Hamels hardly looked like a World Series MVP in his 2009 debut.

Weekly TV: Frugal mentality pervades industry -- As the economy forces the broadcast nets to economize in every way possible, the deal that saved NBC's 'Friday Night Lights' from cancellation last month may be a portent of things to come for primetime skeins.

Argentina's stocks will see performance measures this quarter dictated by events farther afield and by the price of a commodity with only a small presence in the domestic economy: oil.

Here is the photo of Mischa Barton nude that she took for the UK issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine.She tells the magazine, “surely there are more important issues than if someone has cellulite? And I don’t understand the point of people looking for bad things. Why bother? I know it’s human nature to want to pick [...]

Business News: Male demographic targeted during March madness -- It's no Super Bowl, but for studios looking to pitch summer pics to the key young male demo, this year's NCAA basketball tournament was a well-timed golden opportunity.

Well hello there Miranda Kerr , you’re looking quite hot in these lingerie photos. The model shows off her best assets for the new Victoria’s secret bra “Dream Angels Push-Up Bra,” why do they always pick weird names for their underwear? In other news she has revealed that she wants kids one day saying “yeah, [...]

A blurry screencap of the Casio Exilim camera phone(Credit: Gearlog)Casio took an unusual approach to confirming the existence of a rumored Exilim camera phone: a steamy YouTube video Thursday. I did not have the... uh... privilege of watching said video since it looks like the video has been ...