Looking for a reliable assistant for your complex digital life? A new app that can detect tasks and help users to complete them could be the answer. Easilydo, which is available in English for iPhone and iPod Touch in 46 countries, aims to be a pervasive assistant that uncovers tasks from email, calendars, social network
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The Bank of England is unlikely to revive its money-printing campaign, a Reuters poll showed on Monday, even though the British economy is teetering on the brink of another recession. Economists in the survey attached a median 45% chance of the central bank resuming the quantitative easing programme which it suspended in November. However, policymakers
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U.S. stock prices fell on Monday on worries about disappointing company results while world oil prices dipped on profit-taking, but signs of improvement in the global economy capped the losses. The dollar fell against the yen after rallying to a 2-1/2- year high last week, which some traders reckoned was overdone. But it strengthened against
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Carmakers showing off their latest models at the Brussels motor show later this month have been told to refrain from using scantily dressed women to promote their wares. Reports of lewd behaviour by some male visitors at last year's event prompted Belgium's equal opportunities minister Joelle Milquet to write to the organisers. She criticised the
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Five men accused of the rape and murder of an Indian student appeared in court on Monday to hear charges against them after two of them offered evidence possibly in return for a lighter sentence in the case that has provoked widespread anger. The five men, along with a teenager, are accused of raping the
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A British art sleuth has recovered a painting by French artist Matisse that was stolen from a Stockholm museum 25 years ago. Matisse's "Le Jardin", valued at about 6 million crowns ($916,200), was recovered by Christopher Marinello, an art recovery specialist at the Art Loss Register in London. "It is fantastic that the painting has
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A cat carrying a saw and a mobile phone was "detained" as it entered a prison gate in northeast Brazil, Brazilian media reported on Saturday. Prison guards were surprised when they saw a white cat crossing the main gate of the prison, its body wrapped with tape. A closer look showed the feline also carried
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Hong Kong shares neared a 19-month high on Monday, as investors continued to chase Chinese property and coal sectors despite signs suggesting that the rally in some large caps has become stretched. The Hang Seng Index went into the midday trading break up 0.1% at 23,344.3, nearing its highest level since June 2011 posted last
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Egypt's president added fellow Islamists to a reshuffled government on Sunday and the new finance minister pledged to finish talks on an IMF loan to stave off a currency crisis that risks provoking more popular unrest. A senior IMF official is due in Cairo on Monday to meet Egyptian leaders over the $4.8 billion loan
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Britain's Wm Morrison Supermarkets posted a worsening sales fall over Christmas and said although it was disappointed with its performance it would still meet year profit forecasts. The UK's fourth-biggest grocer behind market leader Tesco , Wal-Mart's Asda, and J Sainsbury, said on Monday sales at stores open over a year, excluding fuel and VAT
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