Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

NEW YORK - The judge overseeing Chrysler LLC's Chapter 11 proceedings has ruled that the automaker can start taking steps toward selling the vast majority of its assets to Italy's Fiat Group SpA. The judge also said lawyers for a dissident group of lenders have until noon Wednesday to file a list of members with the court, ruling that their identities do not need to be sealed despite reported death threats.

BOSTON - The Boston Globe and its largest employees union reached a tentative agreement early Wednesday morning on concessions that will keep the 137-year-old newspaper publishing, the union president said.

NEW YORK - Amazon.com Inc. is widely expected to unveil a new Kindle electronic book device with a larger screen Wednesday, which would be geared for textbooks, magazines and newspapers and possibly shake up the economics of multiple industries at once.

LOS ANGELES - Lil Kim was booted from "Dancing With the Stars." The curvaceous, pint-sized rapper — known for her flamboyant, hip-wiggling performance style — consistently earned high scores throughout the competition, twice topping the judges' leaderboard. But she was eliminated from the hit ABC show Tuesday.

DENVER - The fourth quarter belongs to the Denver Nuggets, who keep turning close games into blowouts with an energizing mix of breakaway baskets, dashing defense and old-fashioned hustle. Behind another final-quarter tear, the Nuggets cruised to a 117-105 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series that now shifts to Dallas.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texan with H1N1 flu died earlier this week, state officials said, only the second death outside Mexico where the epidemic appeared to be waning.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will urge the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to put aside a history of mistrust and join Washington in an alliance against Islamic extremists at a White House meeting on Wednesday, senior administration officials said.

LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of America needs $34 billion in extra cash, a source familiar with U.S. government stress tests on leading banks told Reuters, unsettling markets and stoking talk of a possible asset sale in China.

NEW YORK/BERLIN (Reuters) - A group of investment funds sought on Monday to block Chrysler's planned alliance with Fiat SpA, while the Italian automaker advanced its bid to overhaul the industry by setting its sights on Germany's Opel.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home values in the United States extended their fall in the first quarter, with more than one in five homeowners now owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, real estate website Zillow.com said on Wednesday.

TBILISI (Reuters) - NATO started military exercises in Georgia on Wednesday that have angered neighboring Russia, which fought a brief war with the former Soviet state last year.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A British charity fundraiser won the "best job in the world" Wednesday -- caretaker of an Australian tropical island -- after an innovative marketing campaign that highlighted the power of social media.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States must tackle systemically important financial firms deemed too big to fail through tighter oversight and higher capital buffers, according to remarks by a top Federal Reserve official obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - More than 40,000 civilians have fled deadly clashes in Pakistan's Swat valley, officials said Wednesday, amid fears that fighting between Taliban and security forces will torpedo a peace deal.

TBILISI (AFP) - NATO kicked off controversial military exercises in ex-Soviet Georgia on Wednesday as tensions with Russia heightened over Moscow's expulsion of two alliance diplomats.

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexico was set to return to normal life, reopening public venues in hopes that the worst of the swine flu outbreak is over -- even after confirmation of a US death across the border.

HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) - Police in Afghanistan said Wednesday that US-led air strikes against insurgents had killed 100 people including civilians, in one of the deadliest attacks in nearly eight years.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - When her husband shot her five years ago, Connie Culp was left without a nose, a palate or lower eyelids, but now she has revealed her new face.

MILAN (AFP) - Fiat stood by its grand plan for a global auto giant on Wednesday, denying that its move to rescue Opel would cost 18,000 jobs, while a US judge cleared an obstacle to its tie-up with Chrysler.

FRANKFURT (AFP) - German luxury car maker BMW fell into loss early this year amid weak demand for luxury cars, but the results on Wednesday were a welcome surprise for analysts and the shares surged.