Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pledged more technical support and funding to help Pakistan and India battle terrorism in the wake of the attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 160 people.

KHUNDRU, India - India's prime minister said Sunday he wants "normalized" relations with Pakistan amid rising tensions between the South Asian rivals following the Mumbai attacks that left more than 160 people dead.

NEW YORK - Investors who put their fortunes in the hands of arrested New York money manager Bernard Madoff are waiting to hear how much of their stake is left.

MINNEAPOLIS - Will Smith is bringing the message of his new movie "Seven Pounds" to the Midwest with a promotional tour that also turned into a fundraiser.

NEW YORK - The first person to congratulate Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford was the player who won it last year — Tim Tebow.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown blamed banned Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for last month's deadly Mumbai attacks as tension between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan simmered on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President George W. Bush made an unannounced farewell visit to Baghdad on Sunday, just weeks before he leaves office and bequeaths the unpopular Iraq war to President-elect Barack Obama.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Barack Obama on Saturday named New York's top housing official to run the federal housing department -- a Cabinet agency the president-elect said is increasingly important due to America's economic problems.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. credit card industry, harshly criticized for imposing surprise fees and interest rate hikes on consumers, may face a day of reckoning on Thursday..

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An unpublished federal draft report depicts the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq as a $100 billion failure doomed by bureaucratic infighting, ignorance of basic elements of Iraqi society and waves of violence there, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House was studying on Saturday how best to rescue collapsing U.S. automakers, a day after picking up the pieces of a failed congressional bailout plan.

BALAD, Iraq (Reuters) - The top U.S. commander in Iraq said on Saturday that some U.S. troops may remain in Iraqi cities after next June, even though a U.S.-Iraq security pact calls for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from urban areas by then.

ATHENS (Reuters) - A week of violence in Greece has taken its toll on the fragile conservative government, with opinion polls showing on Sunday many think authorities mishandled the worst rioting in decades.

ATHENS (AFP) - Greek students announced fresh rallies Sunday after a night of violence during which hooded militants firebombed an Athens police station in fresh protests over the police shooting of a teenager.

BAIDOA, Somalia (AFP) - Somalia's president announced Sunday he was sacking the cabinet but the premier challenged the move, in a fresh clash between the two rivals that further threatened fragile peace efforts.

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged Sunday to help Pakistan "break the chain of terror" after holding talks with President Asif Ali Zardari on security in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - US President George W. Bush made a surprise farewell visit to Iraq Sunday, the country he ordered invaded in 2003, the White House announced.

DAHRUT, Egypt (AFP) - At least 51 Egyptians were killed when their bus plunged into a canal south of Cairo on Sunday in one of the deadliest road accidents in Egypt in years, officials said.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Thousands of anxious US autoworkers were awaiting word on whether the White House will take decisive action on an industry bailout, as a presidential spokesman cautioned that no decision had been made yet.

BEIJING (AFP) - China said it wants to increase money supply by 17 percent in 2009 as part of new measures to keep the world's fourth-largest economy ticking over in the face of the global slowdown.