Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's president declared his country "liberated from separatist terror" Tuesday as the military said it recovered the body of Tamil Tiger rebel leader from the battlefield on which he was slain.

GENEVA - Drug manufacturers won't be able to start making a swine flu vaccine until mid-July at the earliest, months later than previous predictions, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

NEW YORK - Wall Street signaled a moderately higher open Tuesday after Home Depot Inc. posted stronger-than-expected quarterly results.

NEW YORK - Even if the world had been applauding Jack Bauer at the season's end of "24," he couldn't hear them.

PITTSBURGH - Miroslav Satan and Philippe Boucher scored their first goals of the playoffs and goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury made certain Carolina didn't get its offense going, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-2 victory over the Hurricanes in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals Monday night.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to curb sharp practices in the credit card business was on track for approval by the U.S. Senate as early as Tuesday, with President Barack Obama expected to sign it into law before the end of the month.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday will propose the most aggressive increase in U.S. auto fuel efficiency ever in a policy initiative that would also directly regulate emissions for the first time and resolve a dispute with California over cleaner cars.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Morgan Stanley and other banks have applied to repay billions of dollars they borrowed under the U.S. government's Troubled Asset Relief Program, sources familiar with the situation said on Monday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan president Hamid Karzai has no plan to install former U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad as "chief executive" of his country, a spokesman said on Tuesday, denying a report in the New York Times.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Aggressive steps are being pursued to accelerate the production of seasonal flu vaccines, which could be shifted into pandemic flu injections "if that is necessary," the top U.S. health official said on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - An international piracy conference on Tuesday backed off tough proposals calling for an international naval taskforce to be set up under U.N. auspices to fight Somali pirates after members disagreed over implementation.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Speaker of Britain's lower house of parliament will announce his resignation on Tuesday after criticism of his handling of a scandal over lawmakers' expenses, a Labour lawmaker said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vast stockpiles of nuclear weapons amassed during the Cold War could become the catalyst for a thaw in relations this week between the United States and Russia.

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan state television broadcast video footage Tuesday of what it said was the body of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, hours after the rebels claimed he was still alive.

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - During an intense first meeting as heads of state, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid bare differing approaches on Iran and the US goal of a Palestinian state.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistan's military said Tuesday they were locked in fierce street battles with Taliban fighters in the northwest, where a rights group accused both sides of killing civilians.

MOSCOW (AFP) - The United States and Russia on Tuesday began the first round of talks aimed at replacing a landmark Cold War-era nuclear disarmament treaty that expires in December.

HOUSTON, Texas (AFP) - The Atlantis shuttle crew began final steps Tuesday to release a revamped Hubble Space Telescope back into its orbit after a grueling repair mission aimed at extending "humanity's quest for knowledge."

LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices jumped to a six-month high above 60 dollars Tuesday on growing signs of economic recovery amid concerns about unrest in African crude producer Nigeria, traders said.

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile phone company by revenues, said Tuesday its annual net profit more than halved after massive charges against its business in the global economic downturn.