China's new high-speed passenger-train service broke world speed records on its maiden run over the weekend. The Harmony has a top speed of 394kph (245mph), and during its inaugural run it averaged 350kph (217mph), well faster than the 300kph (186mph) "maximum service speed" of France's TGV and Japan's Shinkansen, aka Bullet Train....read more from The Register

(December 29, 2009)