Norwich promoted to Premier League

May 25, 2015 AUTOS

2016 McLaren 570S Dissected: Powertrain, Chassis, Design, and More!

– Just as German carmakers have mastered the art of slicing sausages into different lengths, such that an Audi A6 seems like just a foot-long hot dog to the A4 ballpark frank, McLaren’s staple ingredients are now being spread over a full menu. It ranges from the Big Mac—the million-dollar P1—to this new value-oriented 570S from the, uh, 180,000-dollar menu. With the 570S, McLaren replaces the special sauce in the

May 25, 2015 AUTOS

2015 Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack Test: Speedy Relief for the Un-supercharged Masses

-One of the few good things to come out of the German Occupation of Chrysler (when the entity was known as DaimlerChrysler) during the first few years of this century was the full-size Chrysler 300/Dodge Charger duo. Built on the bones of the second-gen W210 Mercedes-Benz E-class (Daimler had already moved on to the third-gen E-class by then) the pair marked a return to rear-wheel-drive performance and attitude—and set the

May 25, 2015 AUTOS

2015 Ferrari California T Tested: The T Is for Turbo

– Suntanned California has always been a place where people come to experiment with their identity. Thus, the name is perfect for Ferrari’s lowest-priced model, which has been an experiment since it first hit the streets in 2009. It was the first roadgoing Ferrari to put a V-8 in front of its driver and the first with a power-retractable hardtop, and its price and daily practicality took Ferrari on a

May 25, 2015 WORLD HEADLINES

Islamic State faces battle in Iraq, bombs in Syria

BAGHDAD/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State poured more fighters into Ramadi as security forces and Shi’ite paramilitaries prepared to retake the Iraqi city that fell to the Islamists a week ago in a major setback for the government. In Palmyra, the Syrian air force struck at buildings captured by the Sunni militant group, whose arrival has raised fears that the city’s famed Roman ruins will be destroyed. The air force leveled

May 25, 2015 WORLD HEADLINES

China lodges complaint with U.S. over spy plane flight

China said it had lodged a complaint with the United States over a U.S. spy plane that flew over parts of the disputed South China Sea in a diplomatic row that has fuelled tension between the world’s two largest economies. Friction in the region has grown over China’s land reclamation in the Spratly islands. China last week said it was “strongly dissatisfied” after a U.S. spy plane flew over areas