Washington, November 26 : A statistical analysis has confirmed that many people see human facial features in the front end of automobiles, and ascribe various personality traits to cars.

Published in the journal Human Nature, this is the first study to probe whether cars have faces, an idea that researchers product designers and filmmakers have long toyed with.

Washington, Nov 26 : Dieters or individuals who intake calorie-restricted diets during flu season are more susceptible to influenza, says a new study.

Michigan State University nutritional immunology professor Elizabeth Gardner conducted the research which has been published in the November issue of the Journal of Nutrition.

In the study, the researcher showed that mice with a calorie-restricted diet were more likely to die during the first few days of infection than mice with a normal diet.

Airways, Kingfisher and Air India have decided not to levy any transaction fee on air tickets from tomorrow. It would result in cheap air tickets from the airline office or website but customers have to pay Rs 350-Rs 10,000 more if they purchase tickets from travel agent. The representatives of all leading air carrier held a meeting with Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) and apprised them about the decision.

Washington, Nov 26 : Computer simulations have indicated that Jupiter has a rocky core, surrounded by layer of ice, that is more than twice as large as previously thought.

The simulations have been developed by a geophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, who simulated conditions inside Jupiter on the scale of individual hydrogen and helium atoms.

The simulation predicts the properties of hydrogen-helium mixtures at the extreme pressures and temperatures that occur in Jupiter''s interior, which cannot yet be studied with laboratory experiments.

Washington  - Two weeks after his November 4 election as the next president of the United States, Barack Obama addressed a conference of US governors on climate change.

The president-elect promised a "new chapter" in US leadership. He said the science was "beyond dispute," pledged drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions back home and promised to "engage vigorously" in international negotiations aimed at coming up with a new deal to cut global emissions.

Indian banking franchise of Citi bank has taken a sense of relief, following bail out package announced by the US government. It would help the bank to come out of credit crisis and help to recover its strong market position. The bank’s local workforce is still living under threats of lay-offs but now it can expect some thing better in future.