Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

LOS ANGELES - Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-boyfriend and a doctor surrendered to face charges that they conspired to provide the Playboy Playmate with thousands of prescription pills before her 2007 fatal overdose. A second doctor also is accused.

NEW YORK - Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC, in their anticipated face-off on "The Daily Show," repeatedly chastising the "Mad Money" host for putting entertainment above journalism.

SPOKANE, Wash. - The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall's home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27. After days of searching for the source of the noise, she found a very hungry calico cat living in her sofa.

NEW YORK - Michael Phelps insists he's more worried about the pain he caused family, friends and fans than losing money in endorsements after he was photographed inhaling from a marijuana pipe.

NEW YORK - Syracuse outlasted Connecticut in the second-longest Division I game ever, capping a Big East tournament quarterfinal doubleheader in which the second- and third-ranked teams in the country both lost. Andy Rautins hit a 3-pointer 10 seconds into the sixth overtime Thursday night, giving the Orange their first lead since regulation and they went on to a 127-117 victory over the third-ranked Huskies.

HORSHAM, England (Reuters) - Japan joined the U.S. push for more government spending to fight the economic crisis on Friday but G20 unity looked seriously compromised after Paris accused Washington of disregarding the urgent need for tough market regulation.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Premier Wen Jiabao held out the prospect of extra stimulus spending if needed to hit China's 8 percent growth goal this year and called on Washington to ease worries Beijing has about the safety of its vast U.S. assets.

BERNE/VIENNA (Reuters) - Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg offered concessions on Friday in a bid fend off a global crackdown on tax evasion but insisted their bank secrecy principles remains intact.

(Reuters) - New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Rep. Barney Frank and other lawmakers are discussing a plan to link executive pay to the long-term performance of companies, the Wall Street Journal said.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan said on Friday it could shoot down any threatening object falling toward its territory, after North Korea said a planned rocket launch would send it across Japanese territory.

(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp is seeking to produce more "jumbo" mortgages, which can range from $417,000 in most areas to as much as $729,750, Barbara Desoer, the bank's head of mortgage, home equity and insurance services told Bloomberg in an interview.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban militants recovered 24 bodies and were searching for more on Friday, hours after suspected U.S. drones destroyed a camp in Pakistan's northwestern region, militants and officials said.

(Reuters) - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) officials advised the largest U.S. banks on March 9 that they may be charged more for the agency's debt guarantees, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter.

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea on Friday warned of United Nations "countermeasures" after North Korea set dates for a satellite launch seen by Seoul and Washington as a disguised test of a missile which could reach Alaska.

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan on Friday ordered two warships to join an anti-piracy mission off Somalia in which its armed forces could face combat abroad for the first time since World War II.

ANTANANARIVO (AFP) - President Marc Ravalomanana has pledged to work to restore peace in Madagascar as his premier met with the opposition, which claimed a peaceful handover of power was imminent.

BELFAST (AFP) - A policeman shot dead by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland will be buried on Friday, after his widow appealed for an end to an upsurge of violence which has shaken the peace process in the province.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - More Americans than at any time in the past decade believe that the seriousness of global warming is being exaggerated, a Gallup poll showed Thursday.

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso on Friday announced plans for a third stimulus package to revive Asia's largest economy, which is heading for its worst recession since World War II.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US proposal to substantially raise the IMF's resources signals a strong move in Washington toward multilateralism by the Obama administration in the face of the global economic crisis.