Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

BAGHDAD - Iraq will not extend the June 30 deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from urban areas, a spokesman said Monday despite concerns about a resurgence of violence in recent weeks.

WASHINGTON - Billionaire Warren Buffett says the latest recession really shook up Americans' confidence but he sees the economic slide ending.

WASHINGTON - Wanted: Supreme Court justice. Judicial experience not required.

BLANTYRE, Malawi - Malawi's highest court began deliberating on Madonna's bid to adopt a 3-year-old girl from the southern African country, as a dispute erupted over whether a man trying to stop the proceedings is the girl's father.

ATLANTA - The Atlanta Hawks lingered on the court, savoring the cheers as red and silver streamers drifted down from the rafters.

MADRID/GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is likely to raise its flu alert to the top of its six-point scale and declare a pandemic, its director-general indicated in an interview published on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday will propose changing provisions in the tax code that he says encourage U.S. companies to move jobs overseas, as part of a broader package aimed at saving $210 billion over 10 years.

BERLIN/MILAN (Reuters) - A radical overhaul of the car industry moved a step closer on Monday as Fiat's CEO prepared to pitch a bid for Opel to Germany's leaders as part of a planned takeover of General Motors' European assets.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani forces battled Taliban fighters on Monday as the militants denounced the army and government as U.S. stooges and said a peace pact would end unless the government halted its offensive.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not suspend its disputed nuclear program even if the United States imposes sanctions targeting companies that ship fuel to the Islamic Republic, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Talks between The Boston Globe and its unions to prevent the U.S. newspaper from shutting down stopped early Monday morning after a midnight deadline passed, and it was unclear when they would resume.

KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military denied Monday it has allowed soldiers to try to convert Afghans to Christianity, after a television network showed pictures of soldiers with bibles translated into local languages.

ABOARD A U.S. GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday he would reassure Saudi Arabia this week that the kingdom would not suffer from Washington's efforts to improve its relations with Iran.

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - The head of the World Health Organisation warned on Monday that swine flu could return with a vengeance despite Mexico's President Felipe Calderon insisting his country has contained the epidemic.

KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda announced his resignation on Monday, plunging the country into a major political crisis triggered by a stand-off between his ex-rebels and the army chief.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Europe will suffer a deeper and longer recession than previously thought, the European Commission warned Monday, forecasting that mass unemployment would return to haunt the continent.

ROME (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday demanded an apology from his wife for her public complaints over his roving eye and said their stormy marriage was heading for divorce.

MELBOURNE (AFP) - An Australian court has allowed a 17-year-old girl who believes she is a boy to have her breasts surgically removed, it was reported.

BEIJING (AFP) - Officials in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined, state media reported.

BERLIN (AFP) - The boss of Italy's Fiat drummed up support in Berlin on Monday for audacious plans to snap up GM's European arm and combine it with the bankrupt Chrysler to create a new global auto giant.