Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

WASHINGTON - Finance ministers see signs the global economy is stabilizing but are cautioning it will take until the middle of next year for the world to emerge from the worst recession in decades.

ATHENS, Ga. - Authorities from Georgia to Texas had little to go on Sunday as they searched for a University of Georgia professor suspected of shooting his ex-wife and two other men to death outside a theater near campus.

CRESTVIEW, Fla. - A man accused of beating his wife killed two north Florida sheriff's deputies who caught up with him at a shooting range, then fled across the county line, where he died in an exchange of gunfire with deputies, authorities said.

LOS ANGELES - Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress who considered herself lucky to be discovered by television executives after a long stage career that included a Tony award for the musical "Mame," died Saturday at age 86.

NEW YORK - Matthew Stafford's mission is daunting: Lead the Detroit Lions back from the only 0-16 season in NFL history. Mark Sanchez has nearly as big a challenge: He'll compete to replace Brett Favre.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Governments around the world rushed on Sunday to check the spread of a new type of swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico and infected around a dozen in the United States.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed on Sunday that the United States would never sell out Lebanon in any deal with Syria and she urged the Lebanese to hold an "open and fair" election in June.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels declared a unilateral ceasefire on Sunday, with the military having surrounded them in a tiny area along with thousands of civilians, but the move was immediately rejected by the government.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi has agreed to help defend a U.S.-born journalist jailed for spying but prison officials refused to let the human rights lawyer see Roxana Saberi on Sunday, an Ebadi aide said.

DETROIT (Reuters) - With just days to go for Chrysler LLC to reach agreements to cut labor and debt costs or face bankruptcy, members of Michigan's Democratic congressional delegation said on Saturday the onus was now on the U.S. automaker's creditors to make concessions.

KUWAIT (Reuters) - The United States has promised to review the case of four Kuwaiti citizens detained in the U.S. prison of Guantanamo Bay, state news agency KUNA cited an official statement as saying late on Saturday.

VATICAN CITY/LISBON (Reuters) - Pope Benedict created five new saints on Sunday, including Portugal's national hero Nuno Alvares Pereira, a medieval warrior-friar credited with securing Portugal's independence from Castile.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's new government would talk peace with Syria if it dropped preconditions such as an Israeli commitment to return the Golan Heights, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday.

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexicans were taking new precautions on Sunday amid fears that a new flu epidemic believed to have killed up to 81 people in the country could reach "pandemic" proportions and spread to the United States and worldwide.

COLOMBO (AFP) - The Sri Lanka government rejected a ceasefire declared by Tamil Tiger rebels on Sunday, defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse said, instead demanding that the cornered guerrillas surrender.

BEIRUT (AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for free and fair elections in Lebanon during a visit to Beirut on Sunday ahead of a parliamentary vote that could see Hezbollah and its allies emerge victorious.

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Jacob Zuma led his African National Congress to election victory with sweeping promises to help the nation's poor, but will enter office with little room to manoeuvre due to a faltering economy.

REYKJAVIK (AFP) - Iceland's left-wing government won a snap general election as voters punished the conservatives they blame for the country's economic meltdown seven months ago, final results showed Sunday.

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - The IMF says it is time to talk exit strategies since all members now endorsed stimulus measures taken to combat the global financial crisis and the need to clean up banks' bad assets.

ALGIERS (AFP) - OPEC Secretary General Abdalla El-Badri said the cartel wants to see oil prices rising to more than 70 dollars a barrel, at a press conference here Sunday.