Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

MUMBAI, India - Airports in India went on high alert Thursday following fresh attack warnings as officials said India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the deadly Mumbai attacks.

POZNAN, Poland - The first solar-powered car to travel around the world ended its journey at the U.N. climate talks Thursday, arriving with the message that clean technologies are available now to stop global warming.

MIAMI - When a man sounding remarkably like President-elect Barack Obama called a Florida congresswoman Wednesday, she assumed it was a crank call.

LOS ANGELES - Lil Wayne didn't get a Grammy nomination for "A Milli," but his total haul was still pretty amazing — eight.

The Cleveland Cavaliers keep rolling at home while the Boston Celtics have been unbeatable almost anywhere. The Eastern Conference's two best teams look better every day. LeBron James scored 21 points then grabbed an early seat on the bench as the Cavaliers improved to 10-0 on their own floor for the first time in their history and won their 14th in 15 games, 118-82 over the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and Sweden made dramatic interest cuts on Thursday to shore up their economies in the face of worsening financial news and Europe was expected to follow.

(Reuters) - General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC are considering accepting a pre-arranged bankruptcy as the last-resort price of getting a multi-billion dollar government bailout, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with internal discussions.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday Pakistan had given assurances of its commitment to root out terrorism and round up anyone connected to last week's attack in the Indian city of Mumbai.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's presidency council has approved a security pact with the United States that paves the way for a complete U.S. troop pullout by the end of 2011, a spokesman for the council said on Thursday.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej has a throat infection and is on a drip, his daughter said on Thursday after he failed to make his traditional birthday eve address amid a crippling political crisis.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hate crimes against Arab Americans have decreased steadily since the Sept. 11 attacks but are still more common than they were before the hijackings, a civil rights group said on Thursday.

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed at least four people when they attacked two government offices in the southeastern Afghan town of Khost on Thursday, a police officer said.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Credit Suisse and Nomura Holdings announced big job cuts on Thursday, further evidence the global financial crisis is unrelenting for an industry battered by heavy losses and weak markets.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - European central banks led a new drive against recession on Thursday with dramatic rate cuts and France rolled out huge extra spending to support an EU crisis package as stocks surged but sterling sank.

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan on Thursday promised US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that it would take "strong action" against anyone on its territory found to have been involved in the Mumbai attacks.

HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's government pleaded for international help Thursday after declaring a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 560 people a national emergency and admitting that hospitals are no longer working.

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej is "mildly" sick and cannot deliver his annual birthday-eve speech, his children said on Thursday.

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - At least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded as two suicide car bomb attacks targeting Iraqi police ripped through the western city of Fallujah on Thursday, a defence ministry source said.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Chief executives for the Big Three US carmakers return to Congress Thursday to renew their plea for a massive government bailout after the autoworkers' union offered major concessions.

ZURICH (AFP) - Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse said Thursday it would slash 5,300 jobs in a bid to save 2.0 billion Swiss francs (1.65 billion dollars), as it sustained further losses due to the financial crisis.