Kia Motors Corp.’s Forte Eco Plus, the country’s first vehicle fitted with an idle stop-and-go-system for automatic transmission, will go on sale today. The idle stop-and-go-system automatically shuts down the engine when the vehicle comes to a halt and restarts the engine when the car is back on the move to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. According to the company, the idl...

Muscle car measures up to competition, but stiffer price may dampen enthusiasm Chevrolet’s iconic muscle car Camaro was unveiled in South Korea on Friday. The Camaro is the third model of the eight...ed muscle car ― the Ford Mustang ― the Camaro appears to be evenly matched. At 312 bhp, the Camaro’s power output is a step ahead of the Mustang’s 305 brake horsepower generated by its 3.7-liter V6 e...

Vice chairman of the Korea Audit Bureau of Circulations Kim Young-il has become the bureau’s chairman. The bureau promoted 71-year-old Kim to chairman at its board meeting at Korea Press Center, Thursday. Kim is a graduate from College of Business and Economics at Yonsei University, who worked as a Washington correspondent of the now defunct Hapdong News Agency. His career includes executive di...

...hael Jackson has reportedly earned an estimated $310 million since his death, but died $400 million in debt, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. According to the report, the late King of Pop’s “lavish spending habits still haunt his legacy and have required lawyers to create new deals and restructure old debts.” According to documents filed Thursday by Jackson’s estate, there remain pending lawsuits to be resolved, including a dispute over the “Thriller” music video. From his death in June 2009 through the end of 2010, Jackson’s estate spent roughly $159 m...

CAIRO ― There’s still a glow of liberation here, a week after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Young activists hand out flowers to visitors at the airport, and there is exuberant flag-waving at... begins. I got a sense of how this unified movement is likely to diverge when I met three of Egypt’s most gifted young filmmakers, who are collaborating on a joint documentary called “Tahrir” that th...

LONDON ― Two centuries ago, Napoleon’s arrival in Egypt heralded the advent of the modern Middle East. Now, almost 90 years after the demise of the Ottoman Empire, 50 years after the end of coloniali...escue U.S. hostages in Iran in 1980. Another crack appeared with the 1983 Hezbollah attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which triggered an abrupt U.S. withdrawal from Lebanon. Since the inva...