Activists in Saudi Arabia are set to defy a no-women driving law by getting behind the wheel amid warnings of punishment by officials. Saudi activists are encouraging women to drive themselves in public on Sunday on the anniversary of an October 26 campaign last year by female drivers in defiance of a driving ban in the kingdom. In recent weeks, campaigners have been pushing on social media for women... 

The Divine DS previewed the decision to remove Citroën badging from future DS models. Premium brand will go its own way with next round of new cars. Citroën has confirmed that its DS brand is to be separated from its parent for good, which means future European-market DS models won’t feature any Citroën badging. According to the company, Citroëns will be defined by affordability and practicality,... 

Building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Moscow’s Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square. Moscow will take “appropriate measures” in response to possible new sanctions from the European Union, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said. “On many levels, the Russian leadership has made it clear that we’ll take adequate measures and our response will be absolutely comparable... 

Several vehicles fell about 40 feet after a portion of the Scenic Highway collapsed on April 30 in Pensacola, Florida. The worst floods in decades in the US states of Florida and Alabama have left at least one person dead and brought destruction across the South. The victim is an elderly woman who drowned Tuesday after high waters submerged her car on a highway, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The... 

People pay visit to the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on February 24, 2014. Air pollution strikes unhealthy levels in the Chinese capital Beijing for the sixth day in a row, prompting warnings for people to stay indoors. On Tuesday, officials said the gray smog that has been covering the sky in much of six northern provinces could last until Friday. Since last Friday, an orange alert — the second-highest... 

Proposal may lead to more accidents, mileage taxes and tickets for “recorded traffic violations”. In a few weeks, federal officials may require new vehicles to have trackable GPS “safety” devices which could be hacked to cause automobile accidents and may even usher in mileage taxes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is spending the next couple of weeks mulling over its decision... 

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently considering whether to require all new cars to include communication technology that constantly broadcasts a vehicle’s location, speed, and perhaps even the number of passengers inside. This new technology, dubbed “vehicle-to-vehicle” (V2V) communications, would be used to alert drivers to possible hazards and improve the safety... 

A court in Belarus has confiscated the car of a repeated drunk driver and ordered the person to 1.5 years of community service following the introduction of a new law. The car is now set to be sold. Russia is considering similar legislation. A 28-year-old man became the first offender to experience the strict new laws aimed at combating drunk driving in Belarus. It was his second drunk driving offense... 

Employees of French automaker Peugeot-Citroen (PSA) from Aulnay-sous-Bois, near Paris, demonstrate in protest at job cuts in front of the Paris Motor Show in Paris, September 29, 2012. The French automaker Peugeot has experienced an estimated four billion euros in lost sales after cutting ties with the Iranian automaker Iran Khodro under pressure from an American partner company, Press TV reports. Peugeot’s... 

The trace of a flying object in the sky over Chelyabinsk / still from a dashboard camera Posting videos from a vehicle’s dashboard camera online violates the Russian constitution and should be banned, the head of the Lower House mass media committee has said. Aleksei Mitrofanov spoke at a Tuesday roundtable dedicated to protection of children from the hazards of the internet, in particular obscenities... 

Nearly every car being manufactured right now comes with a little added bonus by way of a tiny recording device nestled under the center console. And if you’re looking to keep your driving habits under wraps, you might want to start worrying. As many as 96 percent of the cars mass-produced in 2013 include event data recorders, or EDRs, yet the existence of these small “black box” surveillance... 

A 70 year old citizen was mobbed by bullies- he is now currently hospitalized in critical condition after suffering severe head injuries and internal bleeding. The fact that these marauders only target Golden Dawn, and have yet to attack a single target of the Memorandum/Troika, shows who they are in service of. A group of approximately 100 Anarchist “ANTIFA” (“Anti-Fascists”) wearing helmets,... 

Unusually heavy rains have caused floods in Greece and southern Italy with torrents of water strong enough to carry away vehicles. One woman died of shock after being trapped in her car surrounded by raging waters. In Athens a woman in her 20s died of a heart attack prompted by a shock when she became trapped in her car by floodwaters. Another woman was rescued from her stranded vehicle as streams... 

German truck manufacturer MAN expects lower sales and earnings in 2013 after the net profit of the company in 2012 contracted to 189 million euros (USD253 million) in the face of Europe’s faltering economy. According to a statement released by the company on Friday, “MAN Group will see a … decline in revenue and a disproportionately large drop in operating profit in 2013.” “Despite the... 

Unrelenting snowfalls have caused unprecedented chaos in Russia. Over the past week, the country has seen scores of traffic accidents, flight delays and, in some cases, the complete isolation of some remote settlements and towns. On Friday, Moscow was on a verge of traffic collapse as more than 10 inches of snow fell on the city, which is more than half of January’s average. Thousands of passengers...