Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  OPEC says it will keep production steady AP - 59 minutes ago

  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - OPEC decided Wednesday to keep output ceilings steady for now, in a move that briefly propelled crude prices above $90 a barrel.

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  New editing program touches up Flickr AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is touching up its popular online photo-sharing service, Flickr, with free editing tools aimed at the growing number of shutterbugs who want to doctor their digital pictures.

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  Child abuse queries in Spears' case AP - 35 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - Child welfare investigators are looking into "multiple child abuse and neglect" allegations in the custody battle between Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline, according to court documents released Tuesday.

• Woman awarded $11K for waking in surgery AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  VIENNA, Austria - A court on Wednesday awarded $11,000 to a woman who said she woke up during major abdominal surgery but was unable to tell doctors she was in terrible pain.

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  Tigers work deal to land Cabrera, Willis AP - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. - One swift move, two new stars. The Detroit Tigers are loading up for another run at the World Series, this time with Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis.

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  Guantanamo prisoners get day in high court Reuters - 32 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay will argue in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that the prisoners' detention is unconstitutional, focusing renewed attention on the United States' tarnished human rights record.

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  Pentagon chief Gates in Iraq as violence drops Reuters - 34 minutes ago

  MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Wednesday to urge Iraqi leaders to take advantage of a lull in violence to enact measures aimed at reconciling warring communities.

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  Iran declares victory after U.S. nuclear report Reuters - 21 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president declared victory over the United States on Wednesday and the head of a U.N. watchdog said Iran had been "somewhat vindicated" by a U.S. report that it had halted its nuclear weapons program.

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  Regulators, lenders eye 5-year freeze: report Reuters - 20 minutes ago

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal regulators and lenders are homing in on five years as the length of an interest-rate freeze on subprime mortgages, Bloomberg reported, citing a source familiar with the negotiations.

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  Pakistan lawyers strike to protest Musharraf purge Reuters - Wed Dec 5, 5:33 AM ET

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani lawyers abandoned their legal tomes and took to the streets of the capital on Wednesday, yelling slogans and punching the air in protest at President Pervez Musharraf's purge of the judiciary.

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  Israeli strike kills two Hamas militants in Gaza Reuters - Wed Dec 5, 4:53 AM ET

  GAZA (Reuters) - At least two Hamas militants were killed and two others wounded in an Israeli missile strike in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Palestinian medical workers and the Islamist group said.

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  Congo army says retakes eastern town from rebels Reuters - 36 minutes ago

  GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's army said it retook a strategic town on Wednesday from rebels loyal to renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda in the violence-torn eastern province of North Kivu.

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  Suicide bomber kills 13 in Kabul: defense ministry Reuters - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

  KABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide bomber slammed his car into a bus filled with Afghan soldiers in Kabul on Wednesday, killing 13 people, the second such attack in as many days around a visit by the U.S. Defense Secretary.

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  Ahmadinejad proclaims Iran's nuclear 'victory' AFP - 28 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (AFP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday boasted a US intelligence report on Iran's nuclear programme was a "great victory" for Tehran, vowing never to yield to Western pressure to halt the contested drive.

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  Suicide attack on army bus in Kabul kills at least 16: ISAF AFP - 2 hours, 5 minutes ago

  KABUL (AFP) - A suicide attacker slammed a bomb-filled car into an Afghan army bus in Kabul Wednesday, killing at least 16 people in the second such blast in two days during a visit by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.

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  Rice begins African talks after expressing concern about conflicts AFP - 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

  ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went into talks here Wednesday with African leaders after expressing growing concern about the conflicts in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa regions.

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  Awestruck crowds greet Thai king on his 80th birthday AFP - 44 minutes ago

  BANGKOK (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets around Bangkok's glittering Grand Palace on Wednesday for a candlelight vigil to cheer Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej on his 80th birthday.

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  Mystery deepens as back-from-the-dead Briton arrested AFP - 27 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - A Briton who walked into a police station five years after disappearing, claiming he had lost his memory, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, officers said Wednesday as mystery over the case deepened.

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  OPEC set to maintain output as Saudi rules out hike AFP - 2 hours, 27 minutes ago

  ABU DHABI (AFP) - OPEC is set to maintain its official oil output level at a key ministerial meeting here Wednesday after oil kingpin Saudi Arabia insisted there was no need to increase production.

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  EU regulators approve Northern Rock bailout AFP - 2 hours, 48 minutes ago

  BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU regulators on Wednesday approved Britain's bailout of troubled mortgage lender Northern Rock after finding that a package of loans and deposit gurantees were in line with European emergency aid rules.

Most Popular Top Stories

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  Report contradicts Bush on Iran nuclear program Reuters - Mon Dec 3, 6:09 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. intelligence report says Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and it remains on hold, contradicting the Bush administration's earlier assertion that Tehran was intent on developing a bomb.

• U.S. warns about bed-wetting drug after two deaths Reuters - Tue Dec 4, 4:00 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials alerted the public on Tuesday about the deaths of two patients who were treated with a prescription drug to control bed-wetting.

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  Adroit online, Ron Paul backers hit the streets of N.H. The Christian Science Monitor - Tue Dec 4, 3:00 AM ET

  Manchester, N.H. - They're coming from Miami and Seattle, from the "big sky" state of Montana, and from close to home here in New Hampshire. They're coming to help political iconoclast Ron Paul get elected president – many as campaign first-timers who, characteristically independent, may not even feel obliged to tell the Paul camp what exactly they're planning to do on the candidate's behalf.

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  Climate change may wipe some Indonesian islands off map Reuters - Mon Dec 3, 3:11 AM ET

  JAKARTA (Reuters) - Many of Indonesia's islands may be swallowed up by the sea if world leaders fail to find a way to halt rising sea levels at this week's climate change conference on the resort island of Bali.

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  Brad Pitt plans 150 homes for New Orleans Reuters - Tue Dec 4, 3:34 AM ET

  NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Actor Brad Pitt said on Monday he wants to build 150 environmentally friendly homes for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina in a hard-hit New Orleans neighborhood