Google takes on Apple's iPhone

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GOOGLE, the internet search engine giant, will this week go into battle against Apple, the technology group, when it launches a smart-phone to much fanfare.

It is expected to unveil the Google-branded device, Nexus One, on Tuesday at a briefing at its headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Terrorists escape from custody

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NEW DELHI: In what could be termed the first major security lapse of the New Year, three Pakistani terrorists escaped from Delhi police custody on Friday when they were being taken for a check up in a government hospital.Abdul Razzak, Mohammed Sadiq and Rafaqat Ali - who had completed their sentence for triggering blasts near the Red Fort in 2000 - were in the custody of the Special Branch of the Delhi police.