Car sales continued to nosedive in April, but there were some bright spots amid the gloom.

A US judge says Elon Musk must face a defamation lawsuit by a British diver who said he was falsely branded a paedophile and child rapist by the chief executive of electric car company Tesla Inc.

Why do so many of Pharoah Tutankhamun’s famous golden statues have breasts? Turns out, it’s not him. It’s his sisters. They ruled Egypt before him — and achieved everything the boy king is credited with. But they were written out of history — until now.

We have been here before. BMW’s original 8 Series coupe debuted as a luxuriant high-performance big brother to the M3 and M5, arriving just before an early 1990s recession put the brakes on big-dollar coupes.

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