Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

NEW YORK - The birds flew majestically, in perfect formation, and the co-pilot saw them coming. For a moment, it looked like they would pass beneath US Airways Flight 1549, but when Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger looked up, they were there in his windscreen. Big. Dark brown. Lots of them.

MOSCOW - Russia and Ukraine announced a deal Sunday to end the bitter dispute that has blocked Russian natural gas from Europe for nearly two weeks and deeply shaken Europeans' trust in the two as reliable energy suppliers.

TACOMA, Wash. - Debris flew into the grandstands at a monster truck show in Washington state, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring another spectator, witnesses and city officials said Saturday.

LOS ANGELES - The superhero film "Watchmen" will be watched by audiences after all — and on time.

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Rams and Steve Spagnuolo agreed Saturday on a four-year contract to make the New York Giants' defensive coordinator their coach.

GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas said on Sunday it would cease fire immediately along with other militant groups in the Gaza Strip and give Israel, which already declared a unilateral truce, a week to pull its troops out of the territory.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is seeking new ways to end a credit crisis that is roiling world economies and he warned on Saturday of the vast challenges a worsening economy poses for Americans.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wall Street may be bruised and battered, but it still donated more money than any other U.S. industry to President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural festivities on Tuesday, a study has found.

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb killed a U.S. soldier and four Afghan civilians in the Afghan capital on Saturday, and one other U.S. soldier was killed when a helicopter crash-landed in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health authorities told consumers on Saturday to avoid eating products that contain peanut butter until they can determine the scope of an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning that may have contributed to six deaths.

MIAMI (Reuters) - A missing Florida money manager is believed to be alive, his business associate said on Saturday as police investigated the possible disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars from investment funds.

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Miriam Gorman wanted to retire more than a year ago, but steep financial losses in her retirement savings mean the 71-year-old bookkeeper now plans to work on indefinitely.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Obama administration is considering ways of using government capital to acquire bad assets and unclog the financial system, people familiar with the Obama team's thinking said on Saturday.

DAMASCUS (AFP) - Mussa Abu Marzuq, the exiled number two of the Islamist Hamas movement which controls Gaza, announced a one-week truce to allow Israeli troops to withdraw, in a speech on Syrian state television.

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia and Ukraine announced a gas agreement on Sunday that they said would "shortly" allow a resumption of supplies to Europe, but questions remained on how and when the deal would be implemented.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Salvage teams have lifted the sunken Airbus jet that crashed into New York's Hudson River apparently after hitting a flock of birds following take-off.

PARIS (AFP) - A French soldier injured in a military helicopter crash off the coast of Gabon died Sunday, bringing the death toll to two as rescuers kept up the search for six missing, the general staff said.

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Mobile phone giants are going beyond their traditional role as handset makers by offering entertainment and lifestyle content to help grow revenues amid tough competition, analysts say.

NEW YORK, (AFP) - The New York Times Company is holding talks with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim about investing in the newspaper to help it ease its financial problems, The Wall Street Journal reported.

BEIJING (AFP) - China's toy exports have taken a beating from the global financial crisis, with demand shrinking in the key US and European markets, state media reported Sunday.