Berlin, Apr. 9 : A key advisor to US President Barack Obama, Bruce Riedel, has said that Al-Qaeda's main motive is to render Pakistan a failed state as it is trying to paralyse the government and destabilize the country.

Riedel urged the international community to safeguard Pakistan's nuclear armaments from the reach of the Taliban, which is dangerously expanding its control over different regions in the country.

Seeing the growing popularity of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for e-mail, the information technology research firm, Gartner has predicted that the future of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform is bright. According to the recently released study by Gartner, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market for email will swell strongly in next 3 years.

The Gartner study has articulated that the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, which represented just 1% of the commercial e-mail market in 2007, is expected to grow to 20 percent by 2012.

Moscow, April 9 : A team at archaeologists, working at Egypt's Fayoum Oasis, have uncovered a number of mummies wearing golden masks, as well as other artifacts of historical value.

According to Russian News Agency RIA Novosti, a group of Russian archaeologists working in the Fayoum province, some 80km southwest of Cairo, since 2003, have made the findings.

The team has been carrying out excavations at the Deir Al-Banat necropolis for the past two years.

London, April 9 : Scientists have used genetically engineered viruses that assemble into electrodes to make complete miniature rechargeable batteries for the first time, which could improve the performance of hybrid electric cars and electronic gadgets.

According to a report in New Scientist, the new lithium ion batteries are as powerful as existing devices but smaller and cleaner to make, claim the team behind the work.

The developer of mobile social networking application, RockeTalk has released an easy-to-use Mobile 2.0 social application, which is accessible on any GPRS-enabled mobile, and RockeTalk has got into partnership with Indiatimes (Times Internet Limited) for ad sales & mobile content on its latest version of mobile social application.

RockeTalk Mobile 2.0 social application offers photos, videos, send text & voice messages, multimedia content download for mobile, and Instant Messenger (IM) chat features with Yahoo, Google Talk, MSN and AIM. The users can access content via m. rocketalk. com.

London, April 9 : Noisy neighbours have made the lives of more than a third of Britons miserable, a new survey has found.

According to the survey by insulation manufacturer Rockwool, loud music and televisions are the biggest causes of disturbance while other irritants for neighbours include parties, children and wooden floors.

The survey revealed that for many people the problem is so severe in some areas that it risks sparking violence.