Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Pakistan attack victims mourned AP - 6 minutes ago

  PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Hundreds of mourners wept Sunday as villagers buried the victims of a suicide bombing at a Pakistani political gathering, an attack that killed 27 people and stoked fears about security ahead of this month's crucial parliamentary elections.

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  Medical issue delays space lab work AP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

  HOUSTON - The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle and space station geared up to inspect a damaged thermal blanket on Atlantis on Sunday after their main job — installing the Columbus lab — was delayed a day because of a crew medical problem.

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  Yahoo board to spurn $44B Microsoft bid AP - 59 minutes ago

  SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc.'s board will reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer, a person familiar with the situation said Saturday.

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  `4400' fans send network sunflower seeds AP - 59 minutes ago

  WAHPETON, N.D. - A sunflower seed company says it has shipped nearly 6,000 bags of its salty snacks to USA Network to try to save a science fiction show. And the actor whose seed-spitting character inspired the campaign is loving every minute of it.

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  Lawyer: Clemens wasn't at Canseco party AP - 54 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - A lawyer for Roger Clemens said Saturday the pitcher can prove he didn't attend a June 1998 party at Jose Canseco's home described by Brian McNamee in the Mitchell Report.

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  Obama sweeps three states, Huckabee wins two Reuters - 21 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama easily swept Democratic presidential contests in three states on Saturday, striking the latest blows in a bruising back-and-forth battle with Hillary Clinton for the party's nomination.

• Britain evacuates North Sea rig Reuters - 46 minutes ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - British defense officials said they had sent about 14 helicopters to evacuate a North Sea oil rig on Sunday following a security alert.

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  Striking writers upbeat about proposed deal Reuters - Sun Feb 10, 3:39 AM ET

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Striking television and film writers on two coasts gave a warm reception to a tentative contract deal reached on Saturday with major studios, signaling that Hollywood's bruising three-month-old labor clash is near a conclusion.

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  Gates urges Europe to back U.S. in Afghanistan Reuters - 42 minutes ago

  MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates made a direct appeal to Europeans on Sunday to support the war in Afghanistan, warning that violence and terrorism could surge worldwide if NATO was defeated there.

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  Republicans losing grip on Miami Cuban vote? Reuters - Sun Feb 10, 12:59 AM ET

  MIAMI (Reuters) - An anti-communist militant who fired a bazooka at a Polish freighter walked free with impunity in this sultry subtropical U.S. city, and Cuban Americans favoring closer ties with their homeland could once expect to be firebombed here.

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  Suicide attack heightens fears for Pakistan polls Reuters - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police said on Sunday they suspected Islamist militants based in the tribal areas on the Afghan border were behind a suicide attack that killed up to 20 people at an election rally in the northwest a day earlier.

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  West need not fear resurgent Russia: Ivanov Reuters - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

  MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - The West need not fear Russia's growing economic and political clout, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Sunday in a conciliatory speech that called for a new global arms control regime.

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  Kenya rivals ready to discuss power-sharing Reuters - 1 hour, 38 minutes ago

  NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's rival parties geared up on Sunday to thrash out a power-sharing agreement to end a deadly crisis over President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.

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  Obama pummels Clinton in White House clean sweep AFP - 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

  SEATTLE, United States (AFP) - Senator Barack Obama swept the board Saturday, pummeling Hillary Clinton in three Democratic nominating contests, as Republican Mike Huckabee gave John McCain a run for his money.

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  US says global Islamic extremism would thrive on Afghan failure AFP - Sun Feb 10, 5:12 AM ET

  MUNICH, Germany (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates Sunday warned that failing to stamp out Afghanistan's resurgent Taliban would boost Islamic extremism worldwide and urged Europeans to wake up to the risks.

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  Israel threatens to hit Hamas leaders in Gaza AFP - 1 hour, 22 minutes ago

  JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel threatened on Sunday to target leaders of the Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip after a child hit by shrapnel in a rocket attack on southern Israel had a leg amputated.

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  Sick astronaut delays first Atlantis spacewalk, mission by 24 hours AFP - Sat Feb 9, 8:34 PM ET

  HOUSTON, Texas (AFP) - A sick German astronaut has delayed by 24 hours a spacewalk that had been set for Sunday to attach the European-made Columbus laboratory to the orbiting International Space Station, a NASA spokesman said.

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  Hollywood writers eye end of strike AFP - Sat Feb 9, 8:37 PM ET

  LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The final chapter of the Hollywood writers' strike was in sight on Saturday after union leaders announced a deal had been reached to end the bitter three-month dispute.

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  New twists ahead in France's rogue trader saga AFP - Sat Feb 9, 10:57 PM ET

  PARIS (AFP) - A new court battle will be held Monday over the detention of French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel while Societe Generale is to soon launch an eight billion dollar capital increase to cover the losses they blame on him.

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  As US recession looms, analysts debate severity AFP - Sat Feb 9, 11:31 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - As the grim notion of recession appears to be taking hold in the United States, debate among economists is shifting from whether a downturn will occur to how long and how severe the slump will be.

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  Hypersonic jet could reach Australia in under five hours AFP - Tue Feb 5, 7:05 AM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - British engineers unveiled plans Tuesday for a hypersonic jet which could fly from Europe to Australia in less than five hours.

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  Bush: Will sign economic stimulus bill next week Reuters - Fri Feb 8, 8:08 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday he would sign a $152 billion economic stimulus package into law next week.

• Praise a Child Right, and You'll Get Results U.S. News & World Report - Tue Feb 5, 2:32 PM ET

  Alan Kazdin knows where I've gone wrong. He knows that I nag, and threaten, and then try to reason with my child, explaining why what she's doing is a bad idea. And he knows that none of those time-honored parenting techniques work worth a darn. "It's almost as if when you leave the maternity ward, they told you five or six things that you shouldn't do with your child, but we do them anyway," says Kazdin.

• 11 Things to Know About Prostate Cancer U.S. News & World Report - Fri Feb 8, 9:10 AM ET

  Men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer know choosing the right treatment can be difficult. Consult five doctors, and you may well get five starkly different recommendations. Now an important report released this week by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has identified the source of the confusion: Reliable scientific evidence on the effectiveness and harms of the differing treatment options is sorely lacking.

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  Three dead in Louisiana campus shooting Reuters - Fri Feb 8, 5:06 PM ET

  BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - A nursing student shot two women to death and killed herself in front of horrified classmates at a college in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana on Friday, police said.