The multi-tasking image-processing Venus Engine enables beautiful image recording and Sonic Speed AF (Auto Focus) combined with a quick camera start-up time to offer a high-speed response time to ensure users can capture even the most spur-of-the-moment photo opportunities.

ENGADGET: Panasonic's Lumix line gets a lot more crowded

It's a response to the long wait for HS2, the high-speed route that's on schedule for a controversial route between London and Birmingham by 2026.

BBC: Making tracks and political points

Bitter experience shows that private rail investment is risky, but if high-speed schemes require public funding, they are likely to find the Treasury's response more than usually terse given today's straitened public finances.

ECONOMIST: The politics if not the economics are turning in favour

To the degree that high-speed rail or other huge public works are undertaken in the U.S. without adequate scrutiny and in response to boosterism from self-interested parties, they are susceptible to the same flaws.

FORBES: China's High-Speed Rail, Highly Suspect