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Dungeon mum ready to talk about cellar ordeal

London, July 9 : Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman who was held captive by her father for 24 years in a dungeon and bore him seven kids, is all set to give a full interview to police about her c

New ‘security patch’ software tackles major internet security breach

London, July 9 : Computer giants like Microsoft, Sun, and Cisco are distributing new software to tackle a major security glitch in the internet addressing system.

‘Sausage’ feather fossils may reveal true colours of dinosaurs

London, July 9 : Palaeobiologists have found that 100-million-year-old fossilized bird feathers preserve microscopic colour-containing pouches, which when decoded, could reveal realistic colour patterns of the dinosaurs.

According to a report in New Scientist, Jakob Vinther, and colleagues Derek Briggs and Richard Prum, from Yale University in the UK, fired electron beams onto an unidentified bird feather fossil from Brazil to reveal precisely-arranged packets that colour plumage brown, black and grey.

“They look like small sausages, they’re elongated and rounded at the edges,” said Vinther. “We are quite confident that they aren’t bacteria,” he added.

The packets resemble similar structures on modern birds.

Amnesty in Olympic countdown human rights call to Beijing

UK China FlagLondon  - Amnesty International has appealed to the Chinese leadership to take furt

British, South African foreign ministers differ on Zimbabwe tactics

ZimbabweJohannesburg - Britain and South Africa's foreign ministers stru

London Mayor confirms scrapping of "luxury car" road toll

London  - London Mayor Boris Johnson confirmed Tuesday that he would scrap a proposed daily charge of 25 pounds (50 dollars) for "gas-guzzling" vehicles entering the centre of the British capital.

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