Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Bush celebrates Christmas at Camp David AP - 1 hour, 39 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - President Bush brought his extended family together for a Christmas celebration at the chief executive's retreat at Camp David, Md., with gift exchanges and a traditional midday feast on the holiday agenda.

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  $6M settlement reached in Big Dig death AP - 1 hour, 37 minutes ago

  BOSTON - After weeks of negotiations, the family of a woman killed when a Big Dig highway tunnel collapsed on her car has reached a $6 million settlement with the epoxy supplier blamed for the accident, family representatives and company officials said.

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  Jazz great Oscar Peterson dies at 82 AP - 21 minutes ago

  TORONTO - Oscar Peterson, whose flying fingers, hard-driving swing and melodic improvisations made him one of the world's most famous and influential jazz pianists in a career that spanned seven decades, has died. He was 82.

• Mass held at ground zero one last time AP - 14 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - The first midnight Mass at ground zero was celebrated as workers were still clearing debris from the World Trade Center and recovering bodies after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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  Tomlinson leads Chargers to victory AP - Tue Dec 25, 5:24 AM ET

  SAN DIEGO - Don't tell the San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos that their Christmas Eve game didn't mean anything.

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  Suicide truck bomb kills at least 20 in Iraq Reuters - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide truck bomb killed at least 20 people and wounded 80 in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji on Tuesday, the police and U.S. military said.

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  Thaksin to return as Thai political mess churns on Reuters - 2 hours, 26 minutes ago

  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Tuesday he was confident the party he backed in weekend elections could form a coalition government, unless prevented unfairly, allowing him to return from exile.

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  Pope makes Christmas appeal for peace Reuters - 54 minutes ago

  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Tuesday said he hoped Christmas would bring consolation to those living in poverty, injustice and war and appealed for just solutions to conflicts in Iraq, the Holy Land, Afghanistan and Africa.

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  Scores missing as Nepal bridge collapses Reuters - 59 minutes ago

  KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least six people were killed and scores missing in Nepal on Tuesday after a suspension bridge collapsed into a river in the west of the Himalayan country, police said.

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  Help for immigrants divides congregations Reuters - Tue Dec 25, 12:22 AM ET

  CINCINNATI (Reuters) - He doesn't speak Spanish and has no idea what America should do about illegal immigration, but Rev. Larry Kreps knows he's now on a list somewhere of people willing to help illegal immigrants in a time of crisis.

• Afghans arrest two foreigners on security charges Reuters - 47 minutes ago

  KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan has detained two foreign nationals, who local news portals described as European, for posing a threat to national security, a presidential palace official said on Tuesday.

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  Turkey bombs Northern Iraq: Iraqi official Reuters - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

  SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes bombed an area inside Iraq near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, but no one was hurt in the strike, an Iraqi Kurdish border guard official said.

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  Giuliani says he does not have cancer Reuters - Tue Dec 25, 12:12 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, who had prostate cancer in 2000 and was hospitalized last week for a severe headache, said on Monday he does not have cancer.

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  Suicide bombers kill 29 in Iraq AFP - Tue Dec 25, 5:13 AM ET

  TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) - Two suicide bombings killed 29 people in Iraq on Tuesday, including 25 who died when a bomber slammed his vehicle into a truck carrying gas cylinders at an Iraqi army checkpoint near Baiji.

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  Christians celebrate Christmas as Pope urges peace AFP - 26 minutes ago

  BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI lamented the "grim sound of arms" in the world's conflict zones Tuesday in a message of peace echoed by other Christian leaders as they celebrated Christmas.

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  Thaksin vows to return to Thailand, urges reconciliation AFP - 17 minutes ago

  HONG KONG (AFP) - Deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday he wanted to return to Thailand in February, as he called for reconciliation with the military following weekend elections.

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  Six dead, hundreds missing after bridge collapse in Nepal AFP - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

  KATHMANDU (AFP) - At least six people died and hundreds were missing after a suspension bridge collapsed above a river in western Nepal on Tuesday as the group made a religious pilgrimage, police and officials said.

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  Afghanistan orders two foreigners out but says not arrested AFP - 52 minutes ago

  KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan has ordered two foreign officials to leave the country for threatening national security, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday, denying his earlier statement that the men had been arrested.

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  Tokyo threatens to delist Sanyo over accounting AFP - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

  TOKYO (AFP) - Troubled Japanese electronics manufacturer Sanyo Electric was Tuesday threatened with delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange after it corrected six years of earnings reports.

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  Toyota sees bright future as world number one AFP - Tue Dec 25, 3:37 AM ET

  NAGOYA, Japan (AFP) - Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday predicted further robust growth in 2008 after racing past US rival General Motors this year to become the world's top producing automaker.

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  Yule school to teach Santa's elves Reuters - Wed Dec 19, 8:50 AM ET

  ROVANIEMI, Finland (Reuters) - Customer service, story-telling, nature studies and wilderness survival are essential skills for any elf worthy of the name.

• World's next outsourcing hub: Kenya? The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Dec 21, 3:00 AM ET

  Nairobi, Kenya - The six clocks on the wall track time zones from the US Pacific seaboard, through the Midwest and across the Atlantic to Britain. Twenty or so computers sit idle, headsets resting on mouse pads waiting for the next shift of call center workers.

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  War strain in Iraq may speed troop cuts The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Dec 24, 3:00 AM ET

  Washington - The strain of the war in Iraq is increasingly forcing senior Pentagon leaders to be blunter about the military's inability to sustain war operations indefinitely, a shift in tone that may mean more troops come home sooner.

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  Researchers get embryonic stem cells from skin Reuters - Sun Dec 23, 3:17 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A third team of researchers has found a way to convert an ordinary skin cell into valued embryonic-like stem cells, with the potential to grow batches of cells that can be directed to form any kind of tissue.

• Help for immigrants divides congregations Reuters - Tue Dec 25, 12:22 AM ET

  CINCINNATI (Reuters) - He doesn't speak Spanish and has no idea what America should do about illegal immigration, but Rev. Larry Kreps knows he's now on a list somewhere of people willing to help illegal immigrants in a time of crisis.