BEIJING Melamine-tainted dairy products have been pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children were sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.Frozen milk products and cartons of milk dating from early 2009 were taken off the shelves after health [...]

HELSINKI  Nokia Corp. said Thursday it will offer free navigation services globally for users of its smart phones, in a drive to counter a similar move by Google Inc.The application, with detailed maps for more than 180 countries, will also have voice guidance in 46 languages in 74 countries.It will be immediately available for download [...]

The first shipment of highly radioactive waste from the UK is leaving the Sellafield nuclear complex later, destined for Japan.The waste is being repatriated after nuclear fuel spent by Japanese reactors was sent to the UK for reprocessing during the 1980s and 1990s. Over the next decade, high-level waste will also be returned to European [...]

Google says it has postponed the launch of two Android based mobile phones in China following a dispute with the government over censorship.The formal launch was due to take place on Wednesday, a spokesperson said. The announcement came as the Chinese government said Google and other foreign firms must obey the country’s laws and traditions. [...]

TOKYO Toyota Motor Corp aims to double its global output of gas-electric hybrid cars to 1 million units in 2011, as it fights to stay in the lead in the growing market for low-emission cars, the Nikkei business reported on Monday.Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, had said it aimed to sell 1 million models annually [...]

ADELAIDE, Australia  Lance Armstrong says his decision to abandon a personal and independent drug testing program is justified because cycling’s biological passport makes the initiative unnecessary.Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong pledged when he returned to cycling last year after a three-year retirement he would submit to a rigid, independent regime of drug testing and [...]

Japan JAL, Asia’s biggest carrier, will likely file for bankruptcy protection next week as part of a state-backed rescue package, sources have told Reuters..Tokyo Shoko Research said small firms with less than 1 billion yen ($10 million) in sales make up half of JAL’s major business partners, supplying goods to or buying from JAL’s 91 [...]

DETROIT The final decision on whether Swedish automaker Saab will live or die is likely to come later this month or in February, General Motors Co.’s top European executive said Tuesday.But GM Europe President Nick Reilly said the longer the troubled brand lingers without being sold, the less likely a sale will be.GM started closing [...]

AMSTERDAM   Heineken NV said Monday it will buy the beer-making operations of Mexico’s Femsa in an all-share deal that values the maker of Dos Equis, Tecate and Sol beers at $5.5 billion (euro3.8 billion), excluding debt.Heineken said the buy cements its position as the world’s second-largest brewer by sales, will help it grow in Mexico [...]

The Green Party accused Npower of taking “inexcusable” shortcuts instead of investing in more effective measures such as loft insulation. Unsolicited mail-outs of light bulbs as an option under the scheme were stopped by the government as of this month.NpowerLow energy light bulbs were scrapped as an option in June 2009 – and the ban [...]