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...even though "High Street" banks have more online customers overall, four pure-play Net banks - Egg, Smile, Intelligent Finance and Cahoot - have made impressive inroads. Egg has 2.1 million customers, for instance, compared to about 3 million for Barclays' online service, the biggest among Britain's bricks-and-mortar banks. And together, the pure plays have nearly 30% of the U.K.'s total number of unique visitors, according to NetValue. Elsewhere in Europe, Spain's Uno-e's customer base rose 13% in the first quarter to 130,000. And earlier this year, Egg bought France's online Zebank, which...
...engaged in a series of operations throughout the Deh Rawod region. A B-52 bomber pounded a cave and tunnel complex; special forces on the ground discovered a weapons cache with thousands of rounds of armor-piercing ammunition. Allied sources in Afghanistan say that ground forces saw a mortar being covered with a tarpaulin in Kakarak and that later they were fired upon as they approached the village. At that point the soldiers called in support from the AC-130. (That night the gunship attacked no fewer than six sites.) American sources claim--and Afghan sources deny--that the plane...
...embassy officials in Kabul declined to comment despite TIME's inquiries. But for an area of Afghanistan where hold-out Taliban commanders still roam free - among them, it is believed, the fundamentalist movement's leader, Mullah Omar - U.S. contributions in bricks and mortar may be the best bet of bringing the locals in from the cold...
...over the Wa's drug trafficking, the Thai army deployed troops and heavy artillery near the border. Burmese soldiers, meanwhile, massed in support of the Wa and for an offensive against other ethnic rebels?fighting that threatened to spill into Thailand. As Bangkok and Rangoon traded accusations, soldiers traded mortar fire. Villagers were evacuated as stray rounds rained down on Thai soil. No civilians were harmed?until last week. Farther south in Ratchaburi province, three gunmen in military fatigues fired automatic weapons at a pickup truck full of schoolchildren. Three students were killed and 12 wounded. "It was like something...
...screen image of themselves and "try on" items. Online orders accounted for more than $300 million of its $1.6 billion in sales last year, and are growing three times as fast as catalog purchases. With only 16 discount outlets and one test store, Lands' End has minuscule bricks-and-mortar sales...