MELBOURNE - TALL people earn higher wages than their vertically-challenged counterparts while being obese does not mean a slimmed-down pay packet, according to a new study in Australia.

The researchers found a strong link between wages and height, particularly for men, with each additional 10cm of height adding three percent to hourly wages.

SEOUL - SOUTH Korea's top technology university has developed a plan to power electric cars through recharging strips embedded in roadways that use a technology to transfer energy found in some electric toothbrushes.

The plan, still in the experimental stage, calls for placing power strips about 20cm to 90cm wide and perhaps several hundred metres long built into the top of roads.

DURBAN - AN AUCTION of more than 1,600 animals fetched 13 million rand (S$2.2 million) in South Africa on Saturday, exceeding the hopes of organisers.

'Prices were down since six months and I thought we would hardly make 10 million rand,' said Mr Rahman Devdhut, of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Wildlife nature reserve which organised the sale.