WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- New York's the "Big Apple" but what's the nickname for Washington, D.C.?

LOS ANGELES, July 30 (UPI) -- Online retailer Amazon.com has introduced what it says is the least expensive electronic book-reader available.

WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama travels to Detroit Friday to tour two auto plants and speak to workers, the White House said.

PHOENIX, July 30 (UPI) -- Thunderstorms and high winds battered the Phoenix area, damaging a sports stadium and leaving the city looking "like a disaster area," a fire official said.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 30 (UPI) -- Unidentied attackers blew up a NATO oil tanker Friday near Quetta, Pakistan, while the rig's driver was refueling the vehicle, police said.

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y., July 30 (UPI) -- Online banking, used by most U.S. households, is not as safe as the standard face-to-face practices of the past, bank consultant group Novantas reported.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 30 (UPI) -- The death toll for three days of flooding in Pakistan rose to 313 Friday as rains swelled rivers, inundated villages and triggered landslides, officials said.

July 30--While the Phillies were closing out a seven-game homestand Thursday, Roy Oswalt was aboard a Houston-to-Washington flight so he would be ready to put his talented and expensive right arm on display for his new team Friday against the Nationals.