Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

PATTAYA, Thailand - Anti-government protesters stormed a convention center where leaders of Asian nations were to meet Saturday, prompting Thailand's government to cancel the summit and declare a state of emergency in the surrounding seaside city.

DALLAS - Nikolas Colton Evans had talked about how much he wanted to have a child, but the 21-year-old died after he was punched and hit his head on the ground in a fight. That would have been the end of it, if it weren't for his determined mother, a court order and a urologist.

BEIJING - China's central bank said Saturday that its foreign exchange reserves rose 16 percent year-on-year to $1.9537 trillion by the end of March.

JOHANNESBURG - Oprah Winfrey acknowledged in a newspaper interview published Saturday that she has made several mistakes at her elite South African school, but said she remains proud of its success.

AUGUSTA, Ga. - They've taken care of all the nostalgic farewells at Augusta National. Goodbye, Gary Player. Raise a toast to Fuzzy Zoeller. And, just in case Greg Norman doesn't make it back, thanks for the memories, Great White Shark, however painful some of them might be. Now, it's time to get down to the real business of this Masters.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the recession-hit U.S. economy was showing "glimmers of hope" despite remaining under strain and promised further steps in coming weeks to tackle the financial crisis.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Pirates on a German ship with 24 foreign hostages said on Saturday they had returned to the Somali coast after failing to locate the scene of a standoff involving an American captive on a drifting lifeboat.

PATTAYA, Thailand (Reuters) - A summit of Asian leaders in Thailand was canceled Saturday after hundreds of anti-government protesters broke through a cordon of troops and swarmed into the meeting's venue.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Victims of Bernard Madoff may be allowed to push the swindler behind a purported $65 billion Ponzi scheme into bankruptcy, a federal court judge ruled on Friday.

PATTAYA, Thailand (Reuters) - Japan is nearing agreement with China on how the U.N. Security Council should respond to North Korea's rocket launch, Prime Minister Taro Aso said after meeting his Chinese and South Korean counterparts on Saturday.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) - Rescue workers searched on Saturday for what could be the last survivor of Italy's devastating earthquake but said there was no guarantee anyone was left alive under the rubble.

ISKANDARIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber targeted a group of Sunni Arab militiamen queuing to collect pay cheques at an Iraqi army post south of Baghdad, killing 9 and wounding 31 Saturday, police said.

KABUL (Reuters) - A top Shi'ite cleric said on Saturday the Afghan government had no right to change a law for Shi'ite Afghans that was widely condemned by Afghanistan's Western backers for curbing women's rights.

PATTAYA, Thailand (AFP) - Thai protesters smashed their way into a major Asian summit on Saturday, forcing the country's embattled prime minister to cancel the meeting and evacuate foreign leaders by helicopter.

SUVA (AFP) - Fiji's President Ratu Josefa Iloilo on Saturday reappointed military chief Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama as interim prime minister a day after he sparked fresh turmoil by repealing the constitution.

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali pirates holding a US captain hostage warned Saturday that using force to free him would end in "disaster" as they prepared to move him following a deadly French raid on a separate boat.

TBILISI (AFP) - Thousands were gathering in the Georgian capital on Saturday for a third day of protests demanding President Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation, but the opposition-led movement appeared to be dwindling.

SYDNEY (AFP) - People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US budget deficit accelerated in March to hit a record nearly one trillion dollars just halfway through the current fiscal year, as the government moved to bail out troubled institutions, government data showed Friday.

BEIJING (AFP) - China's forex reserves, the largest in the world, fell to 1.9121 trillion dollars at the end of February, from 1.9135 trillion a month earlier, the central bank announced.