Listening to radio lifts the levels of happiness and energy more than watching TV or browsing the internet, a fresh study commissioned by the U. K.'s Radio Advertising Bureau claims.

The study from Sparkler Research polled more than 1,000 people in the UK via their smartphones and asked them to record what media they were consuming and to rate the levels of their mood as well as energy at that time.

The BBC’s most popular motoring show, Top Gear, has returned for its 17th series. In Episode 1, Richard Hammond travels to South Africa to test drive a military Marauder around Johannesburg before blowing it up a little and then driving it a little more.

Hawthorne-based rocket manufacturer SpaceX has confirmed that it had hit a contract with Thaicom Plc. to launch a television broadcasting satellite.

SpaceX, the brainchild of Tesla Motors CEO and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, will launch the Thaicom 6 satellite aboard a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., sometime in the second quarter of 2013.

Two big California newspapers, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times, were able to raise their Sunday circulations. The Chronicle increased its coverage by 2.2% compared to last year adding 18,137 home- delivery subscribers to their customers, while the Times gained 0,7% recording their best Sunday results in eight years.

The former publisher of The Boston Globe, William O. Taylor II, who is also said to be the fourth member of his family to run the newspaper, has been reported to have died on Sunday in his Boston home.

The famous British film studio, Pinewood Shepperton is eyeing to be taken over by the Peel Group after the announcement by the property investor to keep the bid at 96 million pounds.

The peel group is a large entity and has produced a number of amazing movies in the past. The firm has received an offer from Peel saying that it would cost them 88 million pounds for the takeover.