TONIGHT on the box

MOTORING shows move up a gear on BBC2 tonight as the channelintroduces two new programmes into its schedule.

The first is Lifting The Bonnet, which should put all dodgy motortraders and garages on red alert.

Its aim, says the BBC, is to expose a number of high-level scamswithin the car trade.

Using a mixture of evidencegathering, some undercover 'stings' andsome of those angry confrontations beloved of investigative TV, theshow looks at various dodges.

These range from the use of fake documentation in the pursuit ofcar crime to the theft of luxury cars for export by criminal gangs.

There's also the growing trade in the number of salvage …

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Obama: McCain embracing harmful Bush policies

Barack Obama accused Republican rival John McCain on Saturday of embracing Bush administration policies that he said shortchange Americans by favoring an extended war in Iraq at the expense of fixing the nation's underfunded schools and crumbling roads and bridges.

Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, used a national radio address to trumpet his campaign proposals to end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and to conclude the war in Iraq responsibly "by asking the Iraqis to take responsibility for their future and to invest in their own country."

The Illinois Democrat pointed to a recent Government Accountability Office report that …

US sends firefighting team, supplies to Israel

WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama administration officials say the U.S. is sending firefighters and supplies to Israel to help the country contain the worst forest fire in its history.

Nancy Lindborg, an official of the U.S. Agency for International Development, says a three-person team of expert firefighters is already on its way and should arrive during the …

Terra show offers view of America

A nation's sense of itself lies somewhere between the way thingsreally are and the way its citizens would like things to be. Boththose elements are contained in a new show at the Terra Museum ofAmerican Art, 664 N. Michigan.

"Visions of a Nation," which opens this week, looks at the waypainters from the 19th and 20th centuries have depicted Americanlife. The show mostly features paintings and prints from themuseum's collections. The works cover the period from about 1820through the 1980s.

A series of wall quotes will "explore the myths in words, justas the paintings and prints explore them in images," said Debra N.Mancoff, a specialist in 19th century painting, who …

Puerto Rico seals 2nd win in Olympic qualifying

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) — Alejandro Carmona came off the bench to score 19 points as Puerto Rico outclassed Paraguay 101-55 on Wednesday for a second straight win in the Olympic qualifying tournament for the Americas.

Argentina, Brazil and Dominican Republic also bagged second-day victories as the fancied teams moved a step closer to reaching the second round of a tournament that offers two tickets for the 2012 Olympics in London.

Luis Scola top-scored with 18 points in Argentina's 86-51 win over Uruguay, while Brazil beat Canada 69-57 with 17 points from Marcelo Tieppo.

Meanwhile, Al Horford hit 19 as Dominican Republic had a narrow 92-89 win against Venezuela. …

In oil spill saga, mysteries of the deep persist

The impatient nation isn't getting answers fast enough in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

What exactly went wrong? Who messed up? How much oil is pouring into the Gulf? Can the oil get to Florida and even up the Atlantic coast? What will the environmental and economic consequences be? Will the chemicals used to disperse the oil leave their own destructive legacy?

As the oil spreads, people on the Gulf Coast, in Washington and elsewhere want answers in a New York minute. But these mysteries of the deep are not yielding easily.

Over three weeks, more than a dozen congressional hearings and scores of hours of witness testimony did not get to the …