New York, Nov 27 : A new keyboard called ‘Keyboard for Blondes’ has been developed with keys that have ‘Smart Blonde Button’ and ‘Somewhat Useless Key’, written on them.

The keyboard, which comes in a bubblegum-pink colour and is priced at 50 dollars, can even talk back and has funny titles for boring keystrokes like, “I need my space” bar.

The best features, however, are the keys dedicated to 100-times-a-day texts like “OMG,” “LOL” or “ZZZD,” which is girl-speak for boring date.

“It’s pink? That''s great,” the New York Daily News quoted blonde Samantha Dubin, 34, as saying wryly.

Helsinki - The world's largest mobile phone maker, Finnish- based Nokia, said Thursday it was to stop selling and marketing its mobile devices in Japan over poor sales.

"In the current global economic climate, we have concluded that the continuation of our investment in Japan-specific product variants is no longer sustainable," Timo Ihamuotila, Nokia executive vice president, said in a statement.

Nokia was to continue with its global research and development activities based in Japan. Sales of the Nokia-owned luxury brand Vertu were also to continue.

The Hague - The Netherlands is to develop Europe's next climate satellite, it was announced by the European Space Agency (ESA) at the close of the agency's tri-annual conference in The Hague on Wednesday.

Dutch Economics Minister Maria van der Hoeven had been lobbying for collective European financing of a new climate satellite.

The Dutch government has reserved 78 million euros (101 million dollars) to finance the 115- to 130-million-euro Tropospheric Ozone- Monitoring Instrument, or Tropomi.

Washington, November 26 : A new set of communication skills is required to improve email interaction, reveals new study.

According to the study authors Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian, of the University of Chicago, unlike face-to-face conversations, email interactions tend to ignore tone of voice, body-language and context and can results in creating misunderstandings.

It is to avoid such miscommunication that face-to-face and internet-based contexts each require a set of distinct interaction strategies.

London, Nov 26 : A team of archaeologists has uncovered 2,700 previously unrecorded historic features along the length of Hadrian’s Wall in England, by studying thousands of aerial pictures.

Hadrian’s Wall, in northern England, is a World Heritage Site, built during the rule of the Roman Empire.

According to a report by BBC News, the experts from ‘The English Heritage’ found ancient burial mounds, medieval sheep farms and 19th Century lead mines, among other findings.

For their research, the team was working from more than 30,500 pictures taken during the past 60 years as part of a push to map and interpret archaeological sites across England.

Washington, Nov 26 : Investigation of the fireball that lit up the skies of Alberta and Saskatchewan in the US on November 20 has determined that it was caused by an asteroid fragment weighing approximately 10 tonnes.

The investigation was conducted by University of Calgary researcher Alan Hildebrand, who has outlined a region in western Saskatchewan where chunks of the desk-sized space rock are expected to be found.

The fireball first appeared approximately 80 kilometers above and just east of the border city of Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan, and traveled SSE towards the Battle River valley, fragmenting spectacularly in a series of explosions.