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A new study has suggested that employees are more likely to be satisfied with their jobs if they are working for a company that is perceived to be ” green”. Cassandra Walsh and Adam Sulkowski, at Charlton College of Business at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, wanted to know whether employee morale is typically... 

Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi has smashed into the Queensland coast, leaving a trail of destruction and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to bunker down in homes and emergency shelters. Here is what people have to say on the disaster: “I think all the roof is gone, it was a brand new roof. I thought it would hold... 

Egypt’s protesters are showing no signs of slowing down, and it appears that President Hosni Mubarak’s days are numbered. So why won’t the governments of Canada and the United States, Europe and Israel simply call for him to step down? Because Egypt’s is an uprising without a face. Who would step into... 

India is considering allowing new private sector banks, including those by industrial houses, and a roadmap for the same could be announced in the Union Budget to be presented later this month. While the formal and final guidelines regarding who should be allowed to set up new banks and what should be the terms and conditions... 

If the house seems dustier than it used to be, it may not be a reflection on your housekeeping skills. The amount of dust in the Earth’s atmosphere has doubled over the last century, according to a new study by U.S. scientists. And the increase could be a contributing factor to climate and ecology changes around the world. To... 

SPB Software has released a migration tool that should make it easier for consumers to move from Symbian or Windows Mobile to Android-based smartphones and tablets, the company said on Wednesday. The tool copies text messages, contacts, call history and bookmarks, and moves them to the new phone. It can be used to transfer data... 

Former double world champion Fernando Alonso insisted he has put last season’s last gasp title disappointment behind him as Ferrari prepare for the new Formula One season. Alonso led the championship standings going into the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi but a misjudged pit-stop sent him down the field and into... 

A new type of glass, stronger and tougher than steel, has been developed and tested by a team of US researchers. What’s more, even better versions of this new glass – a micro-alloy featuring palladium – may be on the way, the journal Nature Materials reports. “These results mark the first use of a new... 

WASHINGTON: There’s cheering news on the environmental front — the atmosphere still has its self-cleansing capacity. Some studies had suggested that such self-cleansing power is fragile and sensitive to environmental changes. But a latest international study shows the air’s self-cleansing capacity is rather... 

A new mobile phone ‘app’ from Google can now solve Sudoku, the popular maths puzzle which took the world by storm with its simple grid of digits and empty boxes – no matter what the level of difficulty. In fact, any cell phone can now solve the puzzle, thanks to the latest version of ‘Google Goggles’ which uses...