Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

WASHINGTON - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Barack Obama's choice for secretary of health and human services, a White House source said Saturday.

JERUSALEM - Israel's prime minister threatened "uncompromising" retaliation against Gaza militants Sunday as Palestinian rocket fire persists six weeks after Israeli forces halted an offensive meant to end the attacks.

LAS VEGAS - Illusionists Siegfried and Roy — and the Bengal tiger that ended their careers — shared the stage again Saturday night for a haunting final performance.

CHICAGO - Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, according to ABC Radio Networks. He was 90.

The New England Patriots sent Matt Cassel to the Kansas City Chiefs and a message to their own fans: don't worry about Tom Brady's knee.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has chosen Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be his cabinet secretary charged with helping to overhaul U.S. healthcare, a U.S. official said on Saturday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc is close to a deal with the U.S. government that would ease the terms of its bailout, give a further equity commitment and help it pay down debt, a person familiar with the matter said on Saturday.

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi is assessing its $7.5 billion investment in Citigroup as the bank's problems deepen and consequences of a possible nationalization become clearer, according to sources close to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA).

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least two missiles believed to have been fired by U.S. drones hit a house in a Pakistani region known as a safe haven for al Qaeda militants on Sunday, intelligence officials said.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders, trying to present a united front to stave off recession, were set on Sunday to promise to avoid protectionist measures that prop up national industries but hurt other member states.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Paul Harvey, who captivated millions of radio listeners daily with his staccato delivery, firmly set opinions and old-fashioned outlook, died on Saturday at the age of 90, ABC News said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was on her way to the Middle East and Europe on Sunday, delving into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking for the first time at an international donors conference for Gaza.

KABUL (Reuters) - Bringing Afghan presidential elections forward from August to April as demanded by President Hamid Karzai will not give other candidates time to contest the campaign, rival presidential contenders said on Sunday.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU leaders were hoping to present a united front Sunday at a summit dedicated to the economic crisis, after weeks of wrangling over protectionism which has led to fears of "a new iron curtain".

MADRID (AFP) - Voters in Spain's northern Basque and Galicia regions went to the polls Sunday in the first electoral test for the country's ruling Socialists since the nation plunged into recession.

THE HAGUE (AFP) - The tribunal created to try the suspected killers of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri was inaugurated Sunday at a special ceremony in The Hague.

BEIJING (AFP) - China will launch a space module next year and carry out the nation's first space docking in 2011 as a step towards its goal of building a space station, state media said Sunday.

MONTREAL (AFP) - Three British explorers have set out on a 90-day skiing expedition to the North Pole, measuring sea ice thickness the whole way to find out exactly how fast it is disappearing, according to the Catlin Arctic Survey.

GENEVA (AFP) - Oswald Gruebel, the new chief executive of Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS, said in a newspaper interview published Sunday that he supported changes to banking secrecy to counter tax evasion.

MOSCOW, (AFP) - Russia will not experience a "dramatic" change in its situation due to the current economic crisis, President Dmitry Medvedev was quoted as saying by the Kremlin Sunday.