Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

CHICAGO - Score another win for the humble aspirin. A study suggests colon cancer patients who took the dirt-cheap wonder drug reduced their risk of death from the disease by nearly 30 percent. Full Story »

VIENNA - Organizers of what's being billed as a global tribute to Michael Jackson in Vienna say the event will be held on Sept. 26. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Jackson honored in Austria

JOLIET, Ill. - Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on. Clifton Williams, 33, of Richton Park, is facing six months in jail for making what court documents call a yawn-like sound in Will County Judge Daniel Rozak's court last month. The yawn happened as Williams' cousin, Jason Mayfield, was being sentenced for a drug charge on July 23. Full Story »

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino told police he had sex in a restaurant six years ago with a woman now accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from him. And when she told him two weeks later she was pregnant, he gave her $3,000 for an abortion. Full Story »

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ensuring justice in last November's Mumbai attack is a "high priority" for President Obama and the United States will keep pressing Pakistan for action against its planners, a top U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday. Full Story »

YANGON (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday the world should respect Myanmar's judicial sovereignty after the junta sent Aung San Suu Kyi back into detention, triggering Western outrage but only a measured response from its neighbors. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's speaker of parliament on Wednesday rejected as "baseless" an opposition leader's accusation that moderates had been raped in jail following their detention in unrest linked to a disputed June presidential poll. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Iran Election

KABUL (Reuters) - Two foreign journalists embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan were wounded by a roadside bomb, the Associated Press said on Wednesday. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Afghanistan

CISHAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were still missing on Wednesday in remote villages in southern Taiwan and disaster officials said they were uncertain how many might have been killed by mudslides triggered by Typhoon Morakot. Full Story »

• Video: Hundreds rescued from Taiwan mudslides CBC.ca
• Slideshow: Typhoon Morakot slams China, Taiwan

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - The vote count for the parliament of the secular Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was set to begin on Wednesday after long delays, an election official said. Full Story »

GENEVA (Reuters) - China stuck to its "hands-off" line for resolving international disputes on Wednesday, calling for diplomatic approaches and respect of sovereignty in hotspots from Myanmar to Iran and North Korea. Full Story »

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is suffering from the H1N1 virus, making him the first head of state known to have contracted swine flu. Full Story »

YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and her US co-defendant are to appeal against their convictions, lawyers said Wednesday as the ruling junta faced a global wave of anger over her extended detention. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi