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According to the journal Science, a total of 11 specimens of colored feathers of dinosaur dating back to late Cretaceous were found in ambers in Canada and the colors divide gradually from black to brown.

A new study shows that such deaths fell 62 percent between 1996 and 2008: from 24.7 per 1,000 live births in 1996 to 9.3 in 2008. Researchers surveyed 1.5 million births over the 12-year period.

Although many of the world’s democratic states have had females as presidents and/or prime ministers – surprisingly, many have not, including the most powerful democracy on Earth, the United States.

Tech analysts and other experts are almost universally expecting the iPhone 5 to be a blockbuster.

The European Union will decide in the coming months whether to start stockpiling raw materials that are critical for the bloc's industrial and high-tech production, an EU spokesman said on Friday.

Here's a look at which organizations/institutions employ the most people in the world. The list may surprise you.

Ron Paul has at least one celebrity firmly in his camp: singer Barry Manilow.

Research in Motion, the BlackBerry developer, needs a new “transformational” CEO or to be put up for auction now, activist investor Victor Alboini said.

Molycorp Inc (MCP.N) said on Friday it has broken off talks with Japan's Sumitomo Corp with regard to a financing deal, as the investment is no longer necessary for the implementation of its business plan.

The cost to install solar power in the United States fell by 17 percent in 2010 and is on pace to drop even faster this year, according to a new report issued by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Contradicts Dr. Oz

A strike involving thousands of workers at Freeport McMoRan's Indonesian copper mine and port has delayed around 133,000 tonnes of copper ore concentrate shipments, industry officials said on Friday.

Foreign investors are bullish in pursuing mining ventures in the Philippines, with few signs of a slowdown in mineral demand from Asian neighbors such as China, but policy bottlenecks are hampering a faster flow of investments to the sector.

China has set its first national standard for gold at 99.999 percent purity, state media Xinhua reported on Friday, citing the National Gold Standardization Technical Committee.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is still worried about high prices, according to a statement on the central Chinese government's website on Friday.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is still worried about high prices, according to a statement on the central Chinese government's website on Friday.

Europe and the United States could face 10 years of slow growth and high unemployment if a global solution for the euro zone debt crisis is not implemented soon, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday.

At a time when the tech world is eagerly awaiting the launch of Apple's next generation iPhone aka iPhone 5, French iPhone carrier service Orange's CEO Stephane Richard has made a shocking statement, saying that highly anticipated smartphone will be available in France on Oct. 15.

Mao Zedong famously said a single spark could start a revolutionary prairie fire. That fear is now driving his Communist Party successors to grapple with how to tame China's expanding legions of microbloggers.

Three of the six astronauts who were stationed at the International Space Station, began their return to Earth on Friday aboard a Soviet-era capsule.

South Korea was the world's most advanced Internet and telecommunications economy in 2010, with high levels of access, usage and skills, while high-speed Web access remained unaffordable in many low-income countries, the United Nations said on Thursday.