LONDON - MAKING self-improvement New Year's resolutions often leaves people feeling worse, the British mental health charity Mind warned on Thursday.

SYDNEY - OIL from the seeds of a poisonous shrub helped power a New Zealand airliner in a test flight, at a time when airlines hit by high oil prices and pressured over the impact of planes on the environment seek greener fuels.

NASHVILLE (Tennessee) - MUSIC sales have continued to slump in 2008 as the increased number of downloads of digital tracks failed to make up for a plunge in the sale of compact discs.