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Each year, the tax filing deadline on April 15 grips the taxpayers across the nation with stress of filing taxes. Over the past few years, increasing number of people have been filing tax returns online and this has helped in quick disbursal of tax refunds. However, taxpayers must be well aware of the tax frauds and avoid paying high fee to some tax preparers.

Some useful tips have been offered by IRS to the taxpayers in order to avoid any kind of scam while filing their returns or in getting a tax refund. The best option to get timely refunds is e-filing of returns and direct deposit for tax refund.

On Monday, Swedish carmaker Volvo said that it would make an investment of $500m in order to construct a new factory in the US. This step has been taken by the company as it is looking forward to sell more 100,000 cars a year in the US, which is world's second largest auto market.

The target of selling 100,000 cars a year focuses on approximately 80% growth from current sales levels. It is expected that this year, the US market will reach 16.9m units. There has been growth in sales of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford.

Last year was the best year of gains since 1999 for the job market in the United States. In addition, in the third quarter, economy activity of the country hit a massive 5%, marking its best pace since 2003. After closing out 2014 with Superman strength, the country's economy has started losing momentum.

According to reports, hiring is still on, but many experts have started to scale back their growth forecasts. In a speech on Friday, Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said that if the underlying conditions have actually come back to natural, the economy of the country should be booming.

The Obama administration believes that various brokers are not properly watching out for their clients and are pushing risky and expensive investments in a rush for big commissions. An investor Susan Bernardo trusted her stockbroker but she ended up losing a fortune.

According to Bernardo, her broker David Harris gave suggestion to her to sell $400,000 worth of comparatively safe municipal bonds. She has also been advised to sink the proceeds into real estate and energy partnerships in expectation of receiving more income.

Earlier it was thought that male birds always have bright feather and due to this their evolution is more colorful than females, but it is not correct. According to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the color of the birds is driven by predation and foraging success.

Ever since Charles Darwin in the 19th century, researchers tried to find the difference between male and female birds. They focused on attributing the males' brighter colors to their need to attract females. The new findings have been published in the academic journal Science Advances.

In a new facial mapping study, UK-based contributors were asked to put together the composite of the most attractive facial features using computer e-fit software.

Generally, the EFIT-V PhotoFit programme is being used by British police to come up with the faces of wanted criminals. The programme took into account factors like the thickness of lips, nose length, width and hairline.

The composite was then assessed by another 100 people who rated the images for attractiveness. Study's lead researcher Dr. Chris Solomon, a world expert in facial mapping, compiled the findings to come up with the images.