Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

LILONGWE, Malawi - Madonna left Malawi on her private jet Sunday after being rebuffed in an attempt to adopt a second child from the poor African nation, air traffic control officials said.

ISLAMABAD - A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shiite mosque south of the Pakistani capital on Sunday, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more, officials said.

LOS ANGELES - The FBI suspects there's a link between long-haul truckers and serial killers, and runs a national program to track murders along popular trucking routes, according to a newspaper report.

CLEVELAND - Metallica shoved the mosh pit into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

DETROIT - Michigan State has been itching for this do-over since December. Not only is the NCAA title at stake when the Spartans play North Carolina on Monday night, Michigan State will try to avenge that 35-point beatdown the Tar Heels laid on them four months ago. It was the most lopsided loss for Michigan State since 1996, Tom Izzo's first year as coach.

TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired a long-range rocket over Japan on Sunday, provoking international outrage and triggering an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council as it succeeded in grabbing the world's attention.

PRAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama set out his vision and strategy for ridding the world of nuclear weapons on Sunday, vowing to involve all states with atomic weapons in the process of reducing arsenals.

STRASBOURG (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won NATO backing on Saturday for his new approach to Afghanistan but his European allies stopped short of offering long-term troop deployments for the war effort.

BINGHAMTON, New York (Reuters) - Authorities identified the gunman who killed 13 people and himself at an immigrant services center on Friday as Jiverly Wong, 41, a Vietnamese immigrant who had taken English classes there.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's attorney-general put former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on notice on Sunday he was weighing criminal charges against him over suspected corruption during a 2003-2006 term as industry and trade minister.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional budget analysts have raised their estimate of the net cost to taxpayers for the government's financial rescue program to $356 billion, an increase of $167 billion from earlier estimates.

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - President Barack Obama piled pressure on Afghan leader Hamid Karzai on Saturday to scrap an "abhorrent" law which critics say would legalize marital rape.

LONDON (Reuters) - At least $300 billion of the $1.1 trillion stimulus package agreed by G20 leaders last week should be allocated toward helping developing countries, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday.

STRASBOURG (AFP) - NATO leaders pledged thousands more troops for their Afghan mission Saturday and named the organisation's next leader, as violent anti-war demonstrations raged outside the summit.

STRASBOURG (AFP) - US President Barack Obama warned his European NATO allies Friday that they face a greater risk of terror attacks than America and that he needs their help to defeat Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said Saturday it has finished its preparations for a satellite launch which would go ahead "soon" -- keeping the world guessing on the timing of what critics see as a disguised missile test.

BADEN-BADEN, Germany (AFP) - Leaders of the NATO military alliance failed Friday to agree on a new secretary general, despite pressure from Germany to overcome Turkish opposition to favourite Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told Iraqis on Friday that Al-Qaeda rebels and Saddam Hussein loyalists had infiltrated a pro-government militia that had helped to tame the country's deadly insurgency.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Some 80 percent of Arctic ice may disappear in 30 years, not 90 as scientists had previously estimated, according to a new study on the impact of global warming.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Another hellish month for the US labor market pushed the unemployment rate to a new 25-year high of 8.5 percent with 663,000 jobs axed in March, official data showed Friday.