Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

LOS ANGELES - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' unorthodox partnership yielded rich rewards on Grammy night, as the pair nabbed five awards for their haunting "Raising Sand," including record and album of the year honors.

NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez faces a decision far more important to his career than deciding where to sign, whether to accept a trade or if and when to opt out of his contract.

ATLANTA - Pregnant women who develop breast cancer do not have worse odds of death or of cancer returning than other young breast cancer patients, a new study has found.

STOCKHOLM - Suresh Joachim has broken his own Guinness world record for nonstop broadcast-television watching, clocking 72 hours in the Swedish capital.

On the day Tiger Woods usually hoists a trophy at Torrey Pines, the world's No. 1 golfer was busy with the birth of his first son.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chafing over congressional delays, an energized President Barack Obama on Monday rallies supporters in Indiana and addresses his first presidential news conference in a new drive for passage of an $800 billion economic recovery plan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration pushed back the announcement of a keenly awaited bank rescue plan until Tuesday as it pressed lawmakers to settle their differences over a huge economic stimulus package.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's national election is likely to be a cliff-hanger, pollsters said on Monday, on the eve of a vote in which right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party had been forecast to emerge victorious.

WHITTLESEA, Australia (Reuters) - Weary firefighters and rescuers pulled the remains of dozens of people from charred buildings on Monday as the toll from Australia's deadliest bushfires rose to 135.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China, setting out its stall for the next global financial summit, wants the International Monetary Fund to get tougher with developed countries that let their economies run off the rails.

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan effectively delayed a parliamentary vote on the closure of a U.S. airbase Monday by submitting additional paperwork to the chamber, buying time for more negotiations with the United States.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's president said on Monday he has no intention of backing down to North Korea, which may be preparing to test-fire its longest-range missile and in recent weeks has threatened to reduce its neighbor to ashes.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is crafting a mortgage-rescue program that would see Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ease payments for hundreds of thousands of borrowers and offer a model for Wall Street to do the same, sources familiar with the plan said.

WHITTLESEA, Australia (AFP) - Wildfires that have claimed 131 lives threatened to engulf a dozen more Australian communities on Monday, leaving a grim legacy of charred homes, bodies and shattered townships.

ANTANANARIVO (AFP) - Madagascar's defence minister on Monday announced her resignation in protest at the police shooting of opposition supporters this weekend that left 28 dead and drew international condemnation.

TOKYO (AFP) - Auto giant Nissan announced plans Monday to axe 20,000 jobs worldwide as a result of the global downturn which looked set to push France into recession and forced a sharp fall in Germany's trade surplus.

ROME (AFP) - The Italian Senate will hold an emergency session on Monday, aimed at preventing the death of a long-comatose accident victim whose family won a court battle to halt her life support.

COLOMBO (AFP) - A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed 28 people on Monday at a camp for civilians who have fled Sri Lanka's ethnic war, the military said, as the rebels faced imminent defeat.

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - President Barack Obama was Monday to take his case for a huge economic rescue plan directly to the US public, warning of a "catastrophe" without urgent action, as a pivotal vote loomed in the Senate.

LONDON, (AFP) - Britain's Barclays bank said Monday it had overcome writedowns and losses of 8.1 billion pounds (11.8 billion dollars, 9.1 billion euros) last year to post healthy profits that declined only slightly from 2007.