Intelligent Mechatronic Systems' (IMS) iLane is the first in-car gadget that reads out e-mails and answers to the voice to draft a reply.

iLane, a portable smartphone-compatible device, features a synthesised female voice that aware users when they receive a new email, and reads out the message.

The compact device, which can be mounted on a dashboard, sun visor or air vent, gives drivers the ability to manage their smartphones without using their hands.

Washington - European demands for the closure of the Guantanamo prison should translate into helping the United States shutter the facility by accepting some of the detainees, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday.

President Barack Obama has issued orders to close Guantanamo by January but needs European help because many of the detainees cannot be returned to their native countries out of fear they will be mistreated, Clinton said.

Washington, March 11 : New data has emerged that provides evidence in support of the hypothesis that the Agulhas Current, in the southern hemisphere, may stabilise or destabilise climate in Europe.

The data was presented by scientist Martinez-Mendez, in her PhD thesis titled “Surface and Deep Circulation off South Africa: Agulhas Leakage Influence on the Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Last 345 kyr”.

These new data profiles are not yet fully exploited and need to be implemented in global ocean models.

Brussels - Shares in fallen Belgian banking giant Fortis surged by over 40 per cent on Monday morning as investors gave an enthusiastic welcome to a sell-off deal agreed with French bank BNP Paribas over the weekend.

As markets opened, Fortis shares jumped up to 1.42 euros (1.80 dollars), 42.6 per cent above the close on Friday. They fell back during early trading to 1.20 euros, 25 per cent above Friday's close.

London, Mar 7 : The survey of National Statistics department of Britain has revealed that more than a million workers from outside the European Union have acquired jobs in Britain since labour came to power.

They have grabbed nearly half of all available vacancies after being granted permits to work here.

According to the Daily Star, the study between December 1997 and 2007 shows that jobs held by foreigners soared by 1,759,000, with 1,084,000 filled by non-EU citizens.

The ratio of posts held by migrants from outside Europe to the Europeans came out to be 5:2. This means that out of
2.2 million new jobs, 49% were taken by people born outside the EU, with just 19% going to Brits.

Washington  - US President Barack Obama will hold bilateral meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy when he attends the NATO summit next month, the White House announced Thursday.

Obama will on March 31 begin his first trip to Europe since taking office, stopping in London to attend a conference of the world's largest economies, before heading to the NATO summit co-hosted by the French city of Strasbourg and German town of Kehl.