Pebble Beach, California - Bugatti will produce 150 open-top versions of the Veyron super car at a starting price of around around 1.66 million euros (2.44 million dollars).

Similar to the coupe version, the Veyron Grand Sport is powered by a 16-cylinder 736 kW/1001 hp engine with a top speed listed at 407 km/h.

But the top speed of the convertible can only be achieved when the top is closed. Open air drives have a maximum top speed of 360 km/h, the car maker said.

San Francisco - California's powerful prison guards union has launched a recall campaign aiming to oust Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a snap election.

The 30,000-member California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) on Monday charged that the former action movie star's "catastrophic leadership failings" had left the largest US state "in far worse shape" than before he was elected after a similar recall effort booted out his predecessor Democrat Gray Davis in 2003.

Pebble Beach, California - Pininfarina has given the Rolls Royce Drophead Coupe a one-off makeover for a wealthy U. S. collector, taking design cues from the 
1930s and calling it the Hyperion, a Titan of Greek mythology.

First presented at the recent Concours d'Elegance classic car event in Pebble Beach, California, the car was custom built from a 400,000 dollar Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupe owned by collector Roland Hall.

The sleek, long bonnet with the body seemingly wrapped around the driver and passenger combined with a short rear end, was one of the 1930s features taken up by the Italian designers.

Indiaco Ventures Ltd, a leading conglomerate deals in financial services, has announced that its technology division has inked a research and development and technology licensing deal with U.S.-based Aerospace Corporation.

California-based, Aerospace Corporation provides technical analyses for civil and commercial space ventures along with national security space programmes.

Last year in the month of May, Indiaco Ventures inked memorandum of understanding with Norway based Giertsen Group for identifying and transferring hi-end technologies of the Giertsen Group.

San Francisco - Wildfires near northern California's popular Yosemi

San Francisco - Wildfires near northern California's popular Yosemite National Park were increasingly coming under control Wednesday, after days of round-the-clock work by nearly 4,000 firefighters