Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

• 
  CDC: Gulf Coast trailers have toxic air AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  ATLANTA - U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes.

• 
  Yahoo explores alliance with News Corp. AP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

  SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. hopes media conglomerate News Corp. can rescue it from a Microsoft Corp. takeover — or at least prove the slumping Internet pioneer is worth more money than its unsolicited suitor wants to pay.

• 
  `Idol' narrows competition to 24 singers AP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - The tears flowed on "American Idol" Wednesday night as the show trimmed the competition to 24 semifinalists.

• 
  Clemens takes his lumps on Capitol Hill AP - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - Roger Clemens was told he didn't sound believable. Brian McNamee was branded a "drug dealer" and reminded of past lies. With Congress apparently split over which man's version of events is true, it could be up to the Justice Department to decide.

• 
  Specter: Belichick was taping since 2000 AP - Wed Feb 13, 11:09 PM ET

  WASHINGTON - Bill Belichick has been illegally taping opponents' defensive signals since he became the New England Patriots' coach in 2000, according to Sen. Arlen Specter, who said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told him that during a meeting Wednesday.

• 
  Hezbollah to bury slain commander, Israel on alert Reuters - 2 hours, 57 minutes ago

  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah holds a mass funeral for its assassinated commander Imad Moughniyah, one of the United States' most wanted men, in Beirut on Thursday amid calls for revenge against its sworn enemy Israel.

• 
  Iran president to visit Baghdad on March 2: Iraq Reuters - 6 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a landmark visit to Baghdad on March 2 for talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other officials, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said on Thursday.

• 
  Africa bright spot in Bush foreign policy legacy Reuters - Thu Feb 14, 1:56 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush travels this week to Africa, one of the few regions where he can claim globally recognized successes for efforts on AIDS and development in a foreign policy legacy dominated by the Iraq war.

• China says U.S. spying allegations total fiction Reuters - Thu Feb 14, 4:15 AM ET

  BEIJING (Reuters) - China is not running a spy network in the United States and Washington should cease its allegations of espionage, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, days after the U.S. Justice Department arrested four for spying.

• 
  Myanmar rebel leader shot dead in Thai town Reuters - 1 hour, 34 minutes ago

  MAE SOT, Thailand (Reuters) - A leader of Myanmar's biggest rebel group was shot dead at his home in a Thai border town on Thursday in an assassination immediately blamed on troops loyal to the former Burma's military junta.

• 
  Angry Okinawa wants smaller U.S. military presence Reuters - 1 hour, 23 minutes ago

  TOKYO (Reuters) - Angry lawmakers on Japan's southern island of Okinawa called for progress on shrinking the U.S. military presence and tighter discipline among U.S. troops after the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of raping a schoolgirl.

• Congress votes to outlaw CIA waterboarding Reuters - Wed Feb 13, 8:20 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congress defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and voted to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.

• Court dismisses lawsuit on secret kidnapping Reuters - Thu Feb 14, 5:21 AM ET

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge, saying the case involved a state secret, dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a unit of Boeing Co that charged the firm helped fly terrorism suspects abroad to secret prisons.

• 
  Hariri memorial and Mugnieh funeral pack Beirut AFP - 41 minutes ago

  BEIRUT (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of government supporters converged on central Beirut on Thursday for the third anniversary of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's assassination, as just miles away Lebanon's opposition Hezbollah prepared to bury a top commander slain by a car bomb.

• 
  British police find Georgian tycoon died of natural causes AFP - Thu Feb 14, 5:08 AM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - Georgian opposition leader Badri Patarkatsishvili died of natural causes, according to initial post mortem tests released by British police Thursday.

• 
  China regrets Spielberg's Olympic pullout, opposes link to politics AFP - 32 minutes ago

  BEIJING (AFP) - China expressed regret Thursday over US film-maker Steven Spielberg's decision to cut ties with the Beijing Olympics, saying it was unacceptable to link politics to the sporting extravaganza.

• 
  Two new flesh-eating dinosaurs unearthed in Niger AFP - 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

  CHICAGO, United States (AFP) - Two strange new flesh-eating dinosaurs which hunted the rich forests of Africa some 110 million years ago have been unearthed in Niger, researchers said Thursday.

• 
  Fast-food binge harms liver, but boosts good cholesterol: study AFP - Wed Feb 13, 8:48 PM ET

  PARIS (AFP) - A month-long diet of fast food and no exercise led to dangerously high levels of enzymes linked to liver damage, in an unusual experiment inspired by the docu-movie "Supersize Me."

• 
  CITIC Securities in talks for bigger share in US bank Bear Stearns AFP - 9 minutes ago

  SHANGHAI (AFP) - China's CITIC Securities may grab a bigger share in troubled US bank Bear Stearns to reflect sharp drops in the latter's stock price since a deal announced in October, state media said Thursday.

• 
  Swiss bank UBS reports huge loss after subprime debacle AFP - 2 hours, 15 minutes ago

  ZURICH (AFP) - Swiss banking giant UBS plunged to its first-ever full-year net loss on Thursday after losing 18 billion dollars in the US subprime mortgage crisis.

Most Popular Top Stories

• 
  Banks to pause delinquent mortgage foreclosures Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 5:59 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six top mortgage companies on Tuesday launched a program aimed at staving off foreclosure for seriously delinquent borrowers in the hopes that new, more affordable loan terms can be worked out.

• 
  Obama takes on rivals over economic woes Reuters - Wed Feb 13, 4:42 PM ET

  JANESVILLE, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Buoyed by a string of eight consecutive victories, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama bashed rival Hillary Clinton over the ailing U.S. economy on Wednesday and also took aim at Republican front-runner John McCain.

• 
  Eviction can come suddenly for renters in U.S. Reuters - Wed Feb 13, 7:05 PM ET

  SEATTLE (Reuters) - As the U.S. mortgage crisis forces more properties into foreclosure, even renters are feeling the pain.

• 
  GM offers workers buyouts as posts loss Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 3:26 PM ET

  DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on Tuesday it would offer a new round of buyouts to all of its U.S. factory workers as it posted a quarterly loss that underscored the pressure the top U.S. automaker faces in its slumping home market.

• 
  House rejects temporary spy law extension Reuters - Wed Feb 13, 4:29 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected a Democratic measure that would have extended for three weeks an expiring spy law, in a vote that was a victory for President George W. Bush.