Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

GENEVA - Antarctic glaciers are melting faster across a much wider area than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday — a development that could lead to an unprecedented rise in sea levels.

PHILADELPHIA - HBO on your PC? It could happen sooner than you think. Wary of the growing number of consumers watching TV shows online for free — and yet reluctant to upset viewers by yanking shows from the Internet — the nation's largest cable operators are in talks with media conglomerates to take back control. They would create a platform to release cable TV shows online, but exclusively for paying subscribers.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Art will imitate life when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spends a few hours playing himself later this year in a movie by Sylvester Stallone.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A cold cheese sandwich, fruit and a milk carton might not seem like much of a meal — but that's what's on the menu for students in New Mexico's largest school district without their lunch money.

MARANA, Ariz. - Tiger Woods will be competing in the Accenture Match Play Championship that starts today outside Tucson, Ariz. It will be his first tournament since knee surgery following his victory in the U.S. Open on one good leg last June at Torrey Pines.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought to strike a delicate balance between hope and reality on Tuesday to reassure Americans mired in economic crisis that they would survive a "day of reckoning."

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Turkish Airlines passenger plane with 135 people aboard crashed in light fog while trying to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, killing nine, a local official said.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Leaders of the G20 developed and emerging countries should not backtrack on their agreement last year to fight protectionism when they meet in London in April, the head of the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a rising star of the Republican party, on Tuesday said the answer to America's problems lay in its citizens and not in big government.

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has been touring the province where the country has been preparing for a rocket launch, the North's media said on Wednesday, in what a South Korean daily said could be a precursor of a launch.

BUSHEHR, Iran (Reuters) - Iran said on Wednesday it had carried out successful tests at its Russian-built Bushehr atom power plant in a step toward its launch, part of a nuclear program which the West fears also has military aims.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu's hawkish Likud party launched talks on Wednesday with right-wing parties on forming Israel's next government after he failed in initial efforts to enlist his main centrist rival in a broad coalition.

DETROIT (Reuters) - United Auto Workers union leaders urged members on Tuesday to approve a concessionary deal with Ford Motor Co, stepping up the pressure on General Motors Corp and Chrysler to reach similar cost-cutting labor agreements in coming weeks.

AMSTERDAM (AFP) - Nine people were killed and more than 50 injured when a Turkish Airlines plane crashed on Wednesday while attempting to land at an airport near Amsterdam, a Dutch official said.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama vowed to lead a fearful America through its torment to emerge stronger than ever, declaring a "day of reckoning" after an age of excess ended in economic meltdown.

DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday offered a general amnesty to border guards who launched a mutiny that sparked a fierce gun battle in the capital, an official said.

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea came under growing international pressure Wednesday to scrap what it calls a planned satellite launch that is widely seen abroad as a pretext to test its longest-range missile.

BUSHEHR, Iran (AFP) - Iran was testing its long-delayed first nuclear power plant on Wednesday as it pressed ahead with its controversial atomic drive despite international sanctions.

GENEVA (AFP) - Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising sea levels and fuelling climate change, a major scientific survey showed Wednesday.

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's recession woes deepened as a record plunge in exports added to fears Wednesday that Asia's largest economy is becoming one of the biggest victims of the global crisis.