MELBOURNE, March 28 (Reuters) - Lithium miners are receiving prices for their contracted material that are more than 10% above spot prices, reflecting renewed interest from battery chemicals makers. Four lithium deals in the past fortnight have been achieved at elevated levels, according to company and media reports, adding to signs the market for the battery raw material has stabilised...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor's ( TM ) global sales dropped 7% in February from a year earlier, hurt by a heavy decline in China due to Lunar Year holidays and a slump in Japan after a safety test scandal at its small car unit. Sales in China - the world's biggest auto market - tumbled 36%. This year the...

LONDON (Reuters) - European governments are weighing the introduction of tougher rules on cigarette makers' new zero-tobacco heat sticks, moving to close the loopholes they were designed to exploit just months after their launch. Big tobacco companies including Philip Morris International ( PM ) and British American Tobacco ( BTI ) announced the launch of the sticks, made from nicotine-infused...

NEAR LONDON (Reuters) -In an anonymous warehouse in southern England, engineers at Evolve Dynamics are working on technology that could help keep Ukraine's reconnaissance drones in the sky even after Russia tries to jam them electronically. It is a small but important part of an international effort by Ukraine's allies to support its drone programme, which Kyiv hopes will give...