Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

• Hamas says it is closing in on bombing suspects AP - 46 minutes ago

  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas security forces on Saturday battled fighters in a tribal stronghold where they say suspects in a deadly bombing last week were hiding. Two Hamas police officers were killed and 35 people wounded.

• IOC strips gold from 2000 US relay team AP - 30 minutes ago

  BEIJING - The International Olympic Committee stripped gold medals Saturday from the U.S. men's 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Olympics in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew's admission that he was doping at the time.

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  Plans to send elephant to Mexico stirs debate AP - 41 minutes ago

  DALLAS - Jenny the elephant lazily poked her trunk into a bucket of fruit as her keepers at the Dallas Zoo hosed her during her morning bath, seemingly oblivious to the fact that she could soon be shipped far from her home of 22 years. She's also certainly unaware of the debate her possible departure has stirred.

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  LaBeouf lawyers: Left hand was `crushed' AP - 31 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - Shia LaBeouf could have a long road before him as he recovers from the accident that crushed his hand, his lawyer says.

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  Ramirez falls short in first game with the Dodgers AP - 41 minutes ago

  Manny Ramirez had a memorable debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers. It just didn't end well for the enigmatic slugger. Ramirez grounded into a double play in the ninth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks held on for a 2-1 victory at Los Angeles on Friday night.

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  Pakistani Taliban denies Zawahri dead or hurt Reuters - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani Taliban spokesman denied on Saturday a U.S. media report that al Qaeda number two, Ayman al Zawahri, might have been killed or wounded in a U.S. missile strike on the Afghan border last Monday.

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  McCain camp mocks Obama as Messiah-like Reuters - Fri Aug 1, 5:22 PM ET

  PANAMA CITY, Florida (Reuters) - Republican John McCain's presidential team mocked Democrat Barack Obama on Friday as an overconfident, Messiah-like candidate with a tendency toward exaggeration in a Web ad that closed out a week of attacks.

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  Jobless rate highest in 4 years, payrolls drop Reuters - Fri Aug 1, 4:58 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate hit its highest in four years during July as employers cut jobs for a seventh straight month, though less severely than predicted, a Labor Department report showed on Friday.

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  Iran misses informal nuclear offer deadline: EU Reuters - 57 minutes ago

  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iran has so far ignored an informal Saturday deadline to respond to an offer by major powers on its nuclear program, a European Union official said, but European diplomats are ready to wait longer for an answer.

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  U.S. relay team stripped of gold Reuters - Sat Aug 2, 3:37 AM ET

  BEIJING (Reuters) - The U.S. 4x400m relay team that won gold at the Sydney Games in 2000 have been stripped of their medals after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to doping, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Saturday.

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  U.S. Congress starts break with no gas price fix Reuters - Fri Aug 1, 6:17 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress began a five-week recess on Friday, leaving unresolved how to ease the surge in gasoline prices that is certain to be an issue until the November elections and beyond.

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  "You don't understand al Qaeda," 9/11 plotter says Reuters - Fri Aug 1, 2:11 PM ET

  GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks told a U.S. war crimes court at Guantanamo on Friday that Osama bin Laden's driver had no role in al Qaeda attacks and was unfit to carry them out.

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  Qantas aborts Manila flight after hydraulic leak Reuters - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A Qantas flight bound for the Philippines was forced to turn back to Sydney on Saturday after the pilot discovered a hydraulic fluid leak, just eight days after a major emergency involving another of the carrier's aircraft.

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  SAsian summit warned terrorism spreading like 'wildfire' AFP - 53 minutes ago

  COLOMBO (AFP) - South Asian leaders on Saturday demanded strong action to stop terrorism spreading like "wildfire" as a regional summit opened here dominated by heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.

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  Fukuda aims for new start in Japan AFP - 2 hours, 14 minutes ago

  TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda vowed on Saturday to fight price hikes and boost cooperation with Asian countries, as he attempted to breathe new life into his government after a cabinet reshuffle.

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  Karadzic protected by US until he broke 'deal': Belgrade report AFP - Sat Aug 2, 5:40 AM ET

  BELGRADE, Aug 2, 2008 (AFP) - Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his 'deal', Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source.

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  Ex-ETA killer freed from jail on group's 40th anniversary AFP - Sat Aug 2, 4:34 AM ET

  ARANJUEZ, Spain (AFP) - A former ETA member guilty of 25 murders was freed from a Spanish jail Saturday as the armed Basque separatist group marked the 40th anniversary of its first killing.

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  World's first transplant of two full arms: German team AFP - Fri Aug 1, 12:49 PM ET

  BERLIN (AFP) - A German medical team said Friday it had performed what it called the world's first transplant of two full arms, on a farmer who had lost both his limbs in an accident.

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  US auto sales slam on brakes in July AFP - Fri Aug 1, 10:22 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - US auto sales braked hard in July, automakers said Friday, as consumers avoided big-ticket spending in the face of rising unemployment, falling home prices and tight credit.

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  Yahoo board re-elected after blasting by shareholders AFP - Fri Aug 1, 9:37 PM ET

  SAN JOSE, California (AFP) - Yahoo executives were resoundingly re-elected after being berated by shareholders over failed takeover talks with Microsoft and for exposing Internet dissidents to Chinese officials.

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  World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC Reuters - Thu Jul 31, 8:01 AM ET

  LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests that toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.

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  Exercise in a pill? Researchers find two Reuters - Thu Jul 31, 12:17 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who genetically engineered "marathon mice" that could run for hours have found two pills that can mimic the effects -- and they have already developed a test for the drugs in case athletes try to cheat with them.

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  Hidden Van Gogh revealed in color by scientists Reuters - Wed Jul 30, 11:33 AM ET

  AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - Scientists have made a colored view of an early rejected painting underneath Vincent van Gogh's 'Patch of Grass' painting, using advanced X-ray techniques, a Dutch university said on Wednesday.