Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Bush seeks to boost Canada, Mexico ties AP - 49 minutes ago

  OTTAWA - President Bush, tending to relations with two border nations, will try to give a boost Monday to his partnerships with the like-minded leaders of Canada and Mexico.

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  Stock futures are narrowly mixed AP - 10 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Stock futures were narrowly mixed Monday as investors tried to assess whether the Federal Reserve will keep lowering interest rates.

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  Shuttle astronauts prepare to come home AP - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

  HOUSTON - Their mission cut short by Hurricane Dean, astronauts aboard the shuttle Endeavour wrapped up their work in orbit Monday and prepared to come home.

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  11 hurt at filming of Tom Cruise movie AP - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

  BERLIN - Eleven extras were injured during the filming of a new movie starring Tom Cruise, police said Monday.

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  Santana strikes out 17 in Twins win AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

  The way Johan Santana was pitching, Mike Redmond thought he might get to catch a no-hitter. Redmond had to settle for a whole bunch of strikeouts instead.

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  Hurricane Dean batters Jamaica Reuters - 2 hours, 55 minutes ago

  KINGSTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean buffeted Jamaica's southern coast, flooding the capital and littering it with broken trees and roofs after killing nine people as it tore through the Caribbean on Monday toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

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  Roadside bomb kills second Iraqi governor Reuters - 10 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi provincial governor was blown up by a roadside bomb on Monday in what appeared to be an escalation of a power struggle between rival Shi'ite factions that threatens to destabilize the oil-producing south.

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  Bush, Harper, Calderon to tackle economy, security Reuters - Mon Aug 20, 5:12 AM ET

  OTTAWA (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush will review the credit crunch and global market turmoil with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon at a two-day summit that starts on Monday.

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  U.S. foreign policy experts oppose surge Reuters - Mon Aug 20, 4:20 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of top U.S. foreign policy experts oppose President George W. Bush's troop increase as a strategy for stabilizing Baghdad, saying the plan has harmed U.S. national security, according to a new survey.

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  Six dead as storm's remains drench Oklahoma Reuters - Mon Aug 20, 2:21 AM ET

  OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Six people died in floodwaters across Oklahoma after heavy rains from the remains of Tropical Storm Erin drenched the state on Sunday, according to police and local media reports.

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  U.S. lawmakers get no respite at home on Iraq debate Reuters - 39 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anti-war groups knew U.S. Rep. Timothy Murphy was going home to Pittsburgh for this month's congressional recess, so they baked him a cake.

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  Taiwan jet explodes in Japan Reuters - Mon Aug 20, 5:36 AM ET

  TOKYO (Reuters) - Holidaymakers slid down emergency chutes with moments to spare before their Taiwanese airliner exploded and caught fire on Monday, a few minutes after the jet landed on Japan's southern resort island of Okinawa.

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  U.S. media curtail Iraq war coverage: study Reuters - Mon Aug 20, 2:29 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. media reporting of the war in Iraq fell sharply in the second quarter of 2007, largely due to a drop in coverage of the Washington-based policy debate, a study released Monday said.

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  Hurricane Dean threatens Mexico after battering Jamaica AFP - 2 hours, 48 minutes ago

  KINGSTON (AFP) - Hurricane Dean headed for Mexico on Monday, after battering Jamaica into a state of emergency by downing power lines, ripping off roofs and blocking roads with felled trees.

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  Global stocks rally, but not out the woods AFP - 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - World stock markets roared higher Monday after last week's slump, but analysts warned of further turmoil for share prices owing to lingering concerns about borrowers' failure to repay US home loans.

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  Rescuers end search as Peru's quake toll edges to 540 AFP - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

  PISCO, Peru (AFP) - Rescue teams in Peru's shattered earthquake zone headed home Monday, as search operations were replaced by stepped-up aid efforts and security patrols against looters.

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  German hostage freed in Afghanistan AFP - 2 hours, 25 minutes ago

  KABUL (AFP) - Afghan police rescued a German aid worker in a pre-dawn swoop early Monday, providing some relief amid deadlock in efforts to free 19 South Koreans and another German abducted more than a month ago.

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  HSBC in talks for majority stake in SKorean bank AFP - 35 minutes ago

  HONG KONG (AFP) - Global banking giant HSBC said Monday it was in talks to buy a majority stake in Korea Exchange Bank (KEB), which US private equity fund Lone Star has been trying to offload amid legal proceedings.

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  Fed rate cut puts ECB under intense pressure AFP - 38 minutes ago

  FRANKFURT (AFP) - After the US Federal Reserve's surprise rate cut, the European Central Bank is faced with the choice of continuing to raise rates or play for time and risk criticism for inaction, analysts said Monday.

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  Federer hammers Blake to take tennis trophy number 50 AFP - Mon Aug 20, 2:21 AM ET

  CINCINNATI, United States (AFP) - Record-setting Roger Federer takes aim at a fourth US Open title after winning the 50th trophy of his career 6-1, 6-4 over James Blake on Sunday at the Cincinnati Masters.

Most Popular Top Stories

• Karl Rove's wrong turn The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Aug 17, 4:00 AM ET

  Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. - Even by Washington standards, the rise and fall of Karl Rove has been a tragicomedy of epic (if not exactly mythic) proportions. Here was a self-taught political scientist who understood the larger sweep of history, a visionary strategist who'd earned the ear of a compliant president, who set out to create an ambitious and game-changing electoral legacy.

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  Canada's last igloo to be flattened amid Arctic boom AFP - Fri Aug 17, 3:47 AM ET

  IQALUIT, Canada (AFP) - The last igloo in Canada's far north, which housed a family restaurant for 27 years, is set to be demolished to make room for offices, amid a flurry of economic activity in the remote Arctic.

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  Hurricane Dean batters Jamaica Reuters - 2 hours, 55 minutes ago

  KINGSTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean buffeted Jamaica's southern coast, flooding the capital and littering it with broken trees and roofs after killing nine people as it tore through the Caribbean on Monday toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

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  Taiwan jet explodes in Japan Reuters - Mon Aug 20, 5:36 AM ET

  TOKYO (Reuters) - Holidaymakers slid down emergency chutes with moments to spare before their Taiwanese airliner exploded and caught fire on Monday, a few minutes after the jet landed on Japan's southern resort island of Okinawa.

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  Napeoleon's 'death mask' could be his butler's AFP - Sat Aug 18, 5:34 PM ET

  PARIS (AFP) - The purported death mask of Napoleon on show in a Paris museum is not that of the emperor, a historian alleged Saturday, with some reports suggesting it is really that of his butler.