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Free Fixes for Fiskers! A Sign of New Life for the Former PHEV Maker

– It’s been a rough road for Fisker Automotive, and a rough road for owners of its Fisker Karma as well. After producing a couple thousand copies of its Karma plug-in hybrid sedan, the company went bankrupt in late 2013. It was bought out of bankruptcy in February 2014 by Chinese auto-parts maker Wanxiang, which is trying to relaunch the company. As part of that effort, dubbed New Fisker (thenewfisker.com),

UNICEF delivers rare aid to displaced Damascus camp residents

The U.N. children’s fund said on Tuesday it had delivered aid to families driven out of an embattled Palestinian refugee camp outside Syria’s capital into areas to which UNICEF has had no access for two years. Islamic State militants seized large parts of the devastated Yarmouk camp on the southern outskirts of Damascus last month and have been battling other armed groups inside, putting 18,000 Palestinian and Syrian residents at