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 [...]

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 [...]

Scientists are set to launch an all-seeing telescope with an ability to map the sky hundreds of times greater than other observatories.The Wide-field Infra red Survey Explorer (WISE) will now be launched on Monday after the mission, scheduled for for today, was delayed because of a problem with the spacecraft’s steering engine.WISE, which will blast [...]

It’s been a long wait—in some ways, more than 50 years—but in April 2010, the U.S. Air Force is scheduled to launch an Atlas V booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the newest U.S. spacecraft, the unmanned X-37, to orbit. The X-37 embodies the Air Force’s desire for an operational space-plane, a wish that dates [...]