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iPhone CAZE has released two new lines of iPhone cases, Silver Tone and Slim Fit. The cases are used to protect an iPhone from regular wear-and-tear that the device may encounter. Similar to the Mirror Go line of cases, Silver Tone cases wraps around a users iPhone in a plastic enclosure and includes a Mirror Screen protector. It differs from its sister line with various patterned backings in gree...

Javed Ahmed Tantray and Ashiq Ali Bhatt, the alleged militants belonging to Jammu and Kashmir [ Images ] who were remanded to police custody till August 17 by a court on Friday following their arrest from central Delhi's Daryaganj at around 11 pm on Thursday night, had met Salahuddin several times after their first introduction in 2003.

Peace Corps Library writes 'BBC reports that two rival environmental groups are lining up supporters to try to take control of the new .eco domain aimed at green groups. In March, former US vice president Al Gore backed a bid by the California group Dot Eco to operate the .eco TLD, but now a Canadian environmental group known as Big Room has launched a competing bid to manage it. 'We're two different applicants with two different business ideas. Ours is to sell domain names to raise funds for organizations who can effect change,' says Minor Childers, co-founder of Dot Eco. The group has already entered into contracts with its supporters — such as the Sierra Club and the Alliance for Climate Protection — to give away 57% of its profits from sales. Big Room also plans to generate money from the sale of .eco domain names to fund sustainability projects around the world, however, the consortium, which includes WWF International and Green Cross International — founded in 1

Everybody expected that President Obama would have a tough fight, trying to overhaul health care. But nobody predicted that the debate over health care would provoke physical fights, which is what happened this week. Guest host Daniel Zwerdling speaks with NPR News Analyst Juan Williams about the continuing health care debate around the country and the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court justice.

BEIJING (AP) -- A blockade around a remote northwest Chinese town where deadly pneumonic plague killed three people and sickened nine was lifted after no new infections were reported, an official said Sunday....

Bill Bratton is credited with turning around the most scandal-prone big city police department. In a TIME interview, he doesn't quite close the door to larger ambitions

Good things don't come exclusively in small packages, sometimes they come in great big ones that don't stay around for very long. Which is the case with the exceptional new three-hour documentary that...

AUGUST 8, 2008 (Friday): Pricey Party in Beijing; Mortgage Losses at Fannie nie Beijing Olympics Kick Off Throwing around cash like an American mortgage lender, China stages one of the most expensive parties in history. By some estimates, the four-hour opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics costs at least $100 million. It’s a high-tech blowout with 15,000 performers, umbrellas carried by smiling multicultural children, laser light shows and fireworks. For the opening’s finale, Olympic gymnast Li Ning appears to run through air around the top of the so-called Bird’s Nest stadium. (For more on this news, click here http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/sports/olympics/09china.html and here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93410618.) Fannie Mae Reports $2.3 Billion Loss The bad-mortgage, bad-news drumbeat continues. Fannie Mae says it racked up a second-quarter loss that was more than triple what Wall Street expected. Losses total $2.3 billion, or $2.

EDDIE Izzard has said he is determined to complete his challenge to run more than 1,000 miles around the UK to raise cash for charity.