Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Finnish school shooter was bullied AP - 29 minutes ago

  TUUSULA, Finland - The Finnish teenager who killed eight people in a high school shooting was a bullied social outcast but appears to have picked his victims randomly, a senior police official said Thursday.

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  Wall Street heads for mostly higher open AP - 33 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - U.S. stocks appeared poised to open mostly higher Thursday, a day after tumbling amid concerns about continuing credit woes, a weakening dollar and rising oil prices.

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  Chesney, Underwood win top CMA awards AP - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood picked up where they left off last year at the Country Music Association Awards. Chesney won his second straight entertainer of the year award Wednesday, while Underwood made it back-to-back trophies as female vocalist of the year.

• NYC eatery offers $25,000 dessert AP - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - This is one rich cup of haute chocolate: A New York eatery is offering a $25,000 dessert bulging with top-grade cocoa, edible gold and shavings of a luxury truffle.

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  Angels admit desire to sign A-Rod AP - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - While other teams play down their interest, the Los Angeles Angels admit they'd love to sign Alex Rodriguez.

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  Musharraf says elections by February 15 Reuters - 55 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani national elections will take place before February 15, President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday, after Western allies and opponents had demanded polls be held on time and emergency rule scrapped.

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  Soldiers line streets in Georgian state of emergency Reuters - Thu Nov 8, 4:24 AM ET

  TBILISI (Reuters) - A ring of soldiers cordoned off central Tbilisi on Thursday after Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili declared a state of emergency and shut down independent media to quash six days of anti-government protests.

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  Four dead in Blackhawk crash in Italy Reuters - 17 minutes ago

  ROME (Reuters) - Four Americans were killed and six others injured on Thursday when a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter crashed in northern Italy with 10 people on board, a fire brigade official said.

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  Japan's Afghan mission part of broad effort: Gates Reuters - 50 minutes ago

  TOKYO (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged Japan on Thursday to resume a naval mission in support of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan that has been stalled by a domestic political controversy.

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  China tells Iran to heed international pressure Reuters - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

  BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday urged Iran to heed rising international worry about its nuclear ambitions, saying Beijing would seek to work with Europe and the United Nations to defuse the crisis but holding its tongue on any new sanctions.

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  Iowa voters take Democrats to task over jobs Reuters - 34 minutes ago

  NEWTON, Iowa (Reuters) - Mike and Susan St. Clair are both 61, they've both just lost jobs at Newton's Maytag plant, and they fear American jobs are disappearing fast. But each supports a different Democrat for president.

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  Finland mourns school shooting victims Reuters - 40 minutes ago

  TUUSULA, Finland (Reuters) - Flags flew at half-mast across Finland on Thursday in mourning for eight people killed by an 18-year-old gunman at a school hours after he posted a video on YouTube predicting a massacre there.

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  Manila orders inquiry after anger over suicide Reuters - Thu Nov 8, 4:59 AM ET

  MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines promised on Thursday to investigate an apparent suicide by a 11-year-old girl due to poverty after the incident generated angry public reactions and street protests.

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  Pakistan's Musharraf says elections by Feb 15 AFP - 47 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan will hold elections by February 15, state media quoted President Pervez Musharraf as saying Thursday, as he moved to quell global outrage over his imposition of a state of emergency.

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  Georgian opposition ends protests after clashes AFP - 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

  TBILISI (AFP) - Camouflaged police patrolled the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Thursday and news programmes were shut down at the start of a state of emergency ordered after clashes between police and opponents of President Mikheil Saashvili.

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  Grief and disbelief in Finland after school massacre AFP - 21 minutes ago

  TUUSULA, Finland (AFP) - A shell-shocked Finland was in mourning Thursday after a teenaged gunman massacred eight people at a school in what he claimed was an attack on "humanity".

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  Afghan lawmakers buried after suicide attack AFP - 42 minutes ago

  KABUL (AFP) - Five parliamentarians killed in Afghanistan's deadliest suicide blast were buried in a state funeral Thursday attended by around 2,500 people, as demonstrators demanded the arrest of the attackers.

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  Girl's suicide linked to Philippines poverty AFP - Thu Nov 8, 3:46 AM ET

  MANILA (AFP) - A girl aged 11 hanged herself in a Philippines shanty after leaving a letter and diary depicting a life in rampant poverty, newspapers here reported Thursday.

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  BHP Billiton launches takeover bid for rival mining group AFP - 34 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - BHP Billiton, the world's largest miner, said Thursday it had made a takeover proposal to its next biggest rival and fellow Anglo-Australian company Rio Tinto.

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  BNP resists subprime crisis, reports 21 percent net profit gain AFP - Thu Nov 8, 4:39 AM ET

  PARIS (AFP) - French banking power BNP Paribas said Thursday it had weathered the impact of a global credit squeeze in the third quarter, when its net earning soared 21 percent from the same period last year.

Most Popular Top Stories

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  German steeple challenges leaning tower of Pisa Reuters - Wed Nov 7, 10:15 AM ET

  BERLIN (Reuters) - The Guinness Book of World Records has ruled that a church steeple in Germany, not the famous leaning tower of Pisa, is the most tilted tower in the world.

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  Mike Huckabee: a conservative with a social gospel The Christian Science Monitor - Wed Nov 7, 4:00 AM ET

  Washington - The first time Mike Huckabee walked into the Church at Rock Creek, then meeting in a storefront, he knew he'd found a church home.

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  Homes brace for heating oil highs Reuters - Wed Nov 7, 8:34 AM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - When the first snow falls this winter, 61-year-old Grace Murphy won't be turning on the heat in her Dorchester, Massachussetts home.

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  Lawmakers vote to protect gay, lesbian workers Reuters - Wed Nov 7, 8:29 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Wednesday defied a White House veto threat and voted to protect millions of Americans by outlawing workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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  Nazi prosecutors still hunt death head doctor Reuters - Tue Nov 6, 7:21 PM ET

  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - For the few surviving inmates of Mauthausen concentration camp, one visitor in the autumn of 1941 left an indelible memory.