Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - For a year, prosecution witnesses accused former Liberian President Charles Taylor of atrocities ranging from cannibalism to commanding Sierra Leone rebels who hacked off villagers' limbs, and of selling weapons and ammunition in exchange for so-called blood diamonds. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - In his final days, Michael Jackson was robust and active. Or dangerously thin and frail. Begging for access to powerful prescription drugs. Or showing no signs of ever having used them. Full Story »

JOLIET, Ill. - Mark Martin will feel his age in the morning or a day or two after a race. His bones will stiffen and his body will ache after driving 400 grueling miles, even though the fitness fanatic is still in top shape. After all, 50 is 50 and that matters — well, everywhere but on the track. Martin is still nifty at 50 and has made Cup racing his personal senior circuit. Full Story »

ACCRA (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told Africans on Saturday that Western aid must be matched by good governance and urged them to take greater responsibility for stamping out war, corruption and disease plaguing the continent. Full Story »

• Slideshow: President Barack Obama

PERTH/BEIJING (Reuters) - Australia warned China on Sunday of the risks to business confidence from the detention without charge of an Australian executive accused of stealing state secrets, and Chinese executives feared a wider purge. Full Story »

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. and allied troops have pushed back Taliban insurgents in a major offensive in Afghanistan but there is still a long way to go, President Barack Obama said on Saturday. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have not called for U.S. help in urban combat since June 30, when U.S. combat troops withdrew from city and town centers under a bilateral security agreement, a senior U.S. official said. "Here's what has not happened: there have been no requests for combat forces to return back into the city, any city," said Lieutenant-General Charles Jacoby Jr, who took over in April as head of day to day operations in Iraq. Full Story »

• Slideshow: U.S. troops withdrawing from Iraqi cities
• Interactive: U.S. troop deaths in Iraq AP

URUMQI, China (Reuters) - An uneasy calm returned to China's riot-hit Urumqi on Sunday, with security forces concentrated in Uighur neighborhoods as officials called for stability as a top priority in the restive region of Xinjiang. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Ethnic riots spread in China

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Hoping to end a string of delays, NASA will try to launch the space shuttle Endeavour on Sunday on a mission to deliver the last piece of Japan's Kibo laboratory to the International Space Station. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Space Shuttle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said Saturday more time was needed for his $787 billion stimulus package to work, predicting the spending would have a bigger impact on the economy later this year. Full Story »

ZAMBOANGA (AFP) - Gaunt and haggard, freed Italian aid worker Eugenio Vagni has said his release after being held for six months by armed Islamic militants in the Philippines was a day he thought might never come. Full Story »