Reuters - Rampaging French youths set fire to cars and looted shops in Paris on Thursday, marring protests against a youth jobs law that Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, in a conciliatory move, agreed to discuss with unions.

AP - Ice Cube loves cars — especially his new red Mercedes. But that's not the only reason he's hosting Spike TV's AutoRox awards in Las Vegas.

Reuters - Chinese changes to consumption taxes will raise levies on the most polluting cars and impose new ones on other things, including some oil products, as the country seeks to protect the environment and cut energy consumption, state media said.

AP - About 100 masked gunmen stormed a prison near the Iranian border Tuesday, cutting phone wires, freeing all the inmates and leaving behind a scene of devastation and carnage — 20 dead policemen, burned-out cars and a smoldering jailhouse.

Reuters - One third of French people say they are racist, a French human rights watchdog said on Tuesday, after a survey that showed an increase from last year in the number of people who acknowledged being racist.

Reuters - Speaking at a breakfast sponsored by oldies cable channel TV Land, Ken Dychtwald said Americans aged 40 to 59 are the fastest-growing segment of the population. They also spend more than any other demographic on cars, vacations, airline fares, movie and theater tickets, computer hardware and software, and even DVD players and cell phone service.

Reuters - Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo Car Corp. said on Monday it would begin making cars in China this year, a step into the world's third-largest car market that other upmarket automakers took years ago.

If a car doesn't cost at least $440,000, don't expect to see it here. From Forbes.com.

AP - Police special forces pulled people from cars and beat them Saturday, two days after a mob bludgeoned to death four of their security colleagues to demand the shutdown of a U.S-owned gold mine in eastern Indonesia.

In a list of the 10 hottest cars now on the market, six of the 10 are products of the Toyota Motor Co. The Prius tops the list and all three of Toyota's low-priced Scion models are on the list, as well.

AP - Best-selling novelist Douglas Preston was researching the serial killings of lovers in Tuscany when he found himself entangled in a probe of the decades-old crime spree.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Paris, France (AHN) - French police are detaining some 300 people around the country after nationwide student marches against a new labor law turned violent. While street cleaners clear torched cars Friday, the government is bracing for more protests. Around a...

AFP - The United States will expect significant access for its cars into Malaysia's sensitive auto market under soon-to-be held free trade negotiations, a top US trade official said.

AP - Police detained some 300 people around France after nationwide student marches against a new labor law turned violent, as street cleaners cleared away torched cars Friday and the government braced for more protests.

AFP - Demonstrators overturned cars and threw petrol bombs at police who repelled them with tear gas and water cannon as a show of force by hundreds of thousands of French students against the government over job reforms turned increasingly violent.

Reuters - In southern Louisiana, thousands of battered cars and trucks lie overturned, stuck in the mud, lodged on fences or crushed under houses demolished by Hurricane Katrina more than half a year ago.

AP - The government wasted millions of dollars in its award of post-Katrina contracts for disaster relief, including at least $3 million for 4,000 beds that were never used, federal auditors said Thursday.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter Yokosuka, Japan (AHN) - Nissan is announcing the introduction of a new feature that helps drivers maintain a safe distance from the car in front of them. The company also says the system helps cars save gas by preventing sudden acceleration and braking. The...

Reuters - Movie theater owners gave an enthusiastic reception to Pixar Animation Studios Inc.'s film "Cars" at its first public screening at a Las Vegas trade show late on Tuesday.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter Yokosuka, Japan (AHN) - The Nissan Motor Company is introducing the Magic Bumper, a new feature that automatically helps drivers maintain a safe distance from the car in front of them. The system uses a radar sensor to detect the speed of both cars and the...