The first Chinese automobile manufactured in North America will be a three-wheeled vehicle made in a factory on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico. Chamco Automotive, a company set up to import Chinese vehicles to the United States, will open a $300 million Tijuana assembly plant in 2009 that will produce the vehicles of Hebei Zhongxing Automobile. Hebei Zhongxing, a small, employee-owned company, is a leading Chinese pickup truck and sport utility vehicle manufacturer located in ... [full story]

GEORGETOWN, Del. - A Delaware jury decided Thursday on the death sentence for a man who went on a two-state killing spree because he thought aliens were rounding up children. Allison Lamont Norman's trial ended on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Texas cannot execute a paranoid schizophrenic who does not understand why he is being put to death. Sussex County Superior Court Judge T. Henley Graves scheduled formal sentencing for Sept. ... [full story]

Game: "Shadowrun" Publisher: Microsoft System: Microsoft Xbox 360 Cost: $60 ESRB rating: M Review rating: 2 1/2 stars   SHADOWRUN - In addition to firing weapons, 'Shadowrun' combatants can assign any of three sets of special abilities that can seriously alter the course of battle. CNS Photo courtesy of Microsoft.    SHOOT IT OUT - Xbox and PC gamers can stop arguing about hardware and start blasting each other in 'Shadowrun.' CNS Photo courtesy of Microsoft.    DRAGON BALL Z ... [full story]

MELBOURNE - Emergency crews are struggling with the worst flooding in decades in Australia's southeast Victoria state. The Melbourne Herald Sun said more than 100 people were evacuated Thursday as floodwaters inundated parts of the Gippsland region. Residents of Sale and Bairnsdale faced the most immediate threat of flooding, the newspaper said. The State Emergency Service said it would focus efforts Friday on the Lake Glenmaggie, on the Macalister River, and the Maffra district, ahead ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - A Fox News poll released Thursday has more bad news for President George W. Bush, finding that only 31 percent of U.S. voters approve of his performance. That's the lowest approval rating the poll has ever given Bush. Sixty percent of those surveyed give him a negative rating. Only 46 percent of self-described conservatives, and 42 percent of born-again Christians, approved of Bush's performance in office. Bush fared better among Republicans generally, with ... [full story]

SANTIAGO, Chile - A moderate earthquake Thursday rattled central Chile, registering 5.6 on the Richter scale but causing little damage, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake followed reports earlier this month that a lake in southern Chile has disappeared in a matter of months, possibly due to a strong quake. From March to May, virtually all the water was drained from the 5-acre lake fed by glacial water deep in the heart of southern ... [full story]

TORONTO - Small urban areas in Canada have higher overall crime rates than rural or large urban areas, a study of 2005 police data found. The overall crime rate in small urban areas was 43 percent higher than in large urban areas, and 58 percent higher than in rural areas, the study concluded. However, homicide rates were highest in rural areas of Canada, Statistics Canada said Thursday. Of the 658 homicides in Canada in 2005 ... [full story]

Whether it's recently touring with banjo wiz Bela Fleck, performing with the Foo Fighters at the 2004 Grammy Awards or his collaborations with such jazz giants as Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan and Stan Getz, Chick Corea is a musician who knows few boundaries.   THE SWEET LIFE - At age 66, keyboard wizard Chick Corea gets to play with his favorite Musicians. 'It is exactly like being in a candy store,' he says. CNS Photo courtesy ... [full story]

TOKYO - A former Japanese intelligence chief was arrested Thursday on suspicion of defrauding a Korean group in a property sale. Shigetake Ogata, a lawyer who once headed the Public Security Intelligence Agency, allegedly colluded with Tadao Mitsui, the former president of a real estate company, and Koji Kawae, a former bank official and company executive, Kyodo News Service reported. The property transfer involved the Tokyo headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents of ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has imposed an "import alert" on five types of fish raised on Chinese fish farms. Under the alert imposed Thursday, importers must show by independent testing that the fish has no dangerous contaminants, effectively removing the United States as a market, The New York Times reported. The species covered by the alert are shrimp, catfish, eel, basa -- which resemble catfish -- and dace, which resemble carp. ... [full story]