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The social networking site plans to return to its roots by pushing entertainment content and jettisoning portal-like features.



In a last-ditch effort to revive struggling MySpace, owner News Corp. has adopted a new strategy that it hopes will give the site's millions of users a reason to keep coming back.

SoCalGas says the radio-controlled meters will help customers save money. But critics denounce the plan as a boondoggle, contending the costs far outweigh the benefits.



Natural gas consumers could pay more than $1 billion to put radio-controlled smart meters on their homes, even though an agency judge has ruled that the proposal by Southern California Gas Co. is a money loser.

Manufacturing booms, but its importance to the overall economy has diminished.



Improbable as it seems, the brightest spot so far in the nation's spotty economic recovery is a sector long considered all but dead -- good-old-fashioned manufacturing.

A new study shows that people are more likely to cheat and steal after buying green products.

Regulators and Toyota say they'll investigate James Sikes' wild ride east of San Diego, where he reached speeds of 90 mph weaving in and out of traffic before a CHP officer came to his aid.



James Sikes bought his Toyota Prius in 2008 and 53,000 miles later the car was driving fine. But on Monday afternoon, when he accelerated to pass another vehicle on Interstate 8 east of San Diego, the car kept going.

But as the vice president meets with officials on a goodwill mission, Israel announces new construction in East Jerusalem. It was Obama's attempts to stem such settlement that sparked tension.



Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday began an effort to mend strained ties with Israel, pledging a total U.S. commitment to Israel's security and declaring that the bonds between the nations were "unbreakable."

The day's best TV programmes on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, Freeview, Freesat,
Sky and cable as chosen by the Telegraph's critics.

How will Mercedes perform in the 2010 Formula One season with drivers Michael
Schumacher and Nico Rosberg.

A stark and sober mood pervaded the collection, delivered predominantly in
black and white, but shot through with vivid pinks and emeralds.

England's checkered preparations for the World Cup have been disrupted again
by the disclosure that an illegal recording was made of a team meeting
before last week's friendly against Egypt.

The automaker brings out a panel of experts at its Torrance facility to debunk the findings of a professor trying to determine the cause of unintended acceleration.



Months into its recall crisis, Toyota Motor Corp. launched a counterattack Monday, bringing out a panel of experts to debunk the claims of an academic who says he has found an electronic defect in its vehicles related to sudden acceleration.

The Century City company says the odds are stacked against a potential bid for the $35-billion Air Force contract because the revised specifications favor its rival, Boeing.



Northrop Grumman Corp. said Monday that it was dropping out of the race for a $35-billion Pentagon contract to build 179 aerial refueling tankers, leaving its rival Boeing Co. as the sole bidder for one of the largest military contracts in U.S. history.