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Sunglasses allow you to try out experimental styles without making too much of a commitment. If the pair you chose is too outlandish for your locale, you can just take it off and tuck it away in your purse.

Thankfully, Carey Mulligan opted to leave her eye-catching frames on when she strutted down the red carpet at the 70th Venice International Film Festival yesterday. While attending a Miu Miu party, the actress wore a black dress by the design house paired with some offbeat tortoise shell sunglasses. (Perhaps she heard our cries of approval the last time she wore a similar ensemble.)

Now we know these aren’t the most crowd-pleasing of pairs, but we quite like the look. If not at the Venice Film Festival, where else can you go totally avant-garde with your accessories?

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In a lengthy Facebook post this week, someone who evidence suggests is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s 11-year-old son denounced the U.S. and pledged to fight to the death to remain “in our holy land.”

The diatribe was posted Wednesday by an account using the name Hafez Assad, according to Gawker. While the Facebook page is no longer accessible, media outlets were able to obtain screenshots before it was taken down.

Hafez begins with an account of waiting for news about possible attacks. “12 hours we waited [for an attack] … 48 hours they said, we’re waiting,” the author writes in English before daring the U.S. to take its best shot at the civil war-torn nation. “No one has soldiers like the ones we do in Syria. … America doesn’t have soldiers, what it has is some cowards with new technology who claim themselves liberators.”

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It’s been confirmed this morning that Apple retail stores will be launching their first iPhone trade-in program today. This program will allow iPhone owners to bring in gently used iPhones to Apple retail locations to receive credit at the Apple store that’ll be good for use in purchase of a new iPhone model. This trade-in […]

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Authorities in the Dominican Republic are checking the water in a city in the south of the Caribbean country after a sharp rise in cholera in recent days.

The director of the Ministry of Health’s water department says cholera has sickened at least 93 people in the past week in San Cristobal. None of the cases has been fatal.

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Welcome to Engadget’s back to school guide! Today we’re talking docks. Head to the back to school hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back; in early September, we’ll be giving away a ton of gear, including some of the picks in our guides.

Plug and play… and then party in your dorm. That’s how the kids do it nowadays, with their iPods, iPhones and Android devices connected to virtual libraries of stored and streaming music. But unless you’re rocking an HTC One with BoomSound, the dinky speakers on your daily driver just aren’t going to adequately pump out the late-summer jams. For those at-home boogie breakdowns, you’re going to need some serious hardware. And lucky you, we’re here to sort through the clutter and highlight the best back to school picks for any budget.

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