Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

NEW DELHI - India's foreign minister denied Sunday that he had phoned Pakistan's president at the height of the Mumbai terrorist siege, prompting its air force to go on high alert, but Pakistani officials insisted he — or someone else in his ministry — had placed the call.

LAS VEGAS - It's one of those photos that make you do a double-take. Dr. Jeffry Life stands in jeans, his shirt off. His face is that of a distinguished-looking grandpa; his head is balding, and what hair there is is white. But his 69-year-old body looks like it belongs to a muscle-bound 30-year-old.

LOS ANGELES - Actress Alyssa Milano has sought a temporary restraining order against a Northern California man who she says hiked miles to try to reach her.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sam Bradford and Oklahoma wanted to drive home one point: They belong in the BCS championship game. The No. 4 Sooners did that with a 62-21 blowout of No. 19 Missouri for the Big 12 title Saturday night.

ATLANTA - Florida appears headed back to the national championship game. Alabama picked the worst possible time for its first loss of the season.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's foreign minister accused Pakistan on Sunday of trying to dodge blame over the Mumbai attacks' Pakistani origins by leaking a story about a hoax call to Pakistan's president that set off diplomatic panic.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has selected retired Gen. Eric Shinseki, who clashed with the Bush administration over the number of troops needed in Iraq, to be the next secretary of veterans affairs.

DETROIT (Reuters) - As lawmakers and the White House close in on a deal to extend aid to U.S. automakers, concerns about the survival of the companies and their brands are compounding problems for their cash-strapped dealers.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The party containing allies of ousted Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra claimed on Sunday to have enough support to form a coalition government to succeed the administration sacked last week by the courts.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in Louisiana ousted Democrat William Jefferson, who is awaiting trial on bribery charges involving $90,000 found in his freezer, from his seat in the U.S. Congress on Saturday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani militants attacked a parked convoy of trucks carrying military vehicles for Western forces in Afghanistan near Peshawar early on Sunday, destroying 96 trucks, police said.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Food Standards Agency said on Sunday it was monitoring the situation after Ireland ordered a recall of its locally produced pork products due to contamination with potentially cancer-causing dioxins.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb went off on Sunday, wounding 35 police and neighborhood patrolmen in the volatile northern city of Baquba as they were ceremoniously dismantling security barriers to show that violence was on the decline.

ACCRA (AFP) - Ghanaians went to the polls on Sunday to choose the man who will succeed President John Kufuor, in an election that observers hope will show a beacon of stability in an African continent rife with conflict.

MUMBAI (AFP) - India's foreign minister said on Sunday that Pakistani reports about a hoax call made in his name during the Mumbai siege were an attempt to divert blame for the attacks.

ATHENS (AFP) - Hundreds of protesters set cars ablaze, lobbed molotov cocktails at banks and clashed with police in several Greek cities on Sunday in a night-long display of anger at the police killing of a teenager.

ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - A human tide washed over Mount Arafat on Sunday morning as hundreds of thousands of devoted Muslims gathered for the key moment of the annual hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.

POZNAN, Poland (AFP) - With political efforts to tackle global warming advancing slower than a Greenland glacier, schemes for saving Earth's climate system that once were dismissed as crazy or dangerous are gaining in status.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - India on Sunday announced an extra four billion dollars in spending to help shield the country's economy from the impact of the global financial crisis.

SYDNEY (AFP) - Qantas must remain Australian-owned for reasons of national security, even if a potential merger with British Airways goes ahead, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese said Sunday.