Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

TRENTON, N.J. - As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world's most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone.

HOUSTON - Two astronauts face a tedious cleaning and lube job Tuesday, the first of a series of spacewalks to resurrect a massive joint that turns one of the international space station's power-generating solar-panel wings toward the sun.

LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of shrieking fans — mostly teenage girls — lined the streets outside the Mann Village and Bruin Theatres on Monday for a chance to peek at the stars attending the Los Angeles premiere of "Twilight." Some enthusiasts of the popular vampire literary series-turned-movie camped out overnight, while many arrived at dawn to secure a place in line.

LAS VEGAS - The Pittsburgh Steelers walked off the field Sunday just happy they had won.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Turns out the Cleveland Browns aren't quitters after all. And they have Phil Dawson to thank for this wild win.

TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - Major world banks showed the strain of economic crisis on Tuesday, with Britain's Barclays altering its fund-raising plans to quell shareholder anger and profits in Japan's largest bank tumbling.

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said Jerry Yang will step down as chief executive as soon as the board finds a replacement, sending its shares up 4 percent on hopes his departure will clear the way for a deal with Microsoft.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Any European Union support for automobile companies will be temporary and tied to goals such as improving the sector's environmental performance, EU sources said on Tuesday.

TBILISI (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has called Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to assure Moscow's outspoken foe of Washington's continued support, the Georgian leader's press service said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primary care doctors in the United States feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's parliament speaker urged Iraqi lawmakers to keep resisting a security pact with the United States, official media said Tuesday, a day after Baghdad signed an accord on U.S. troop presence in Iraq.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sales of once-hot gift cards are expected to fall nearly 6 percent this holiday season as shoppers try to stretch their dollars by buying discounted merchandise, according to a survey released by the National Retail Federation on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Call it an economic and environmental murder mystery in the making: Will a cash-strapped Detroit kill the electric car -- again?

DUBAI (AFP) - A Saudi super tanker with a 100 million dollar oil cargo seized by pirates in a daring high seas heist was Tuesday nearing Somalia and the crew, including two Britons, is unharmed, the US Navy and the ship's operator said.

GOMA, DR Congo (AFP) - Laurent Nkunda's rebel group announced Tuesday it was withdrawing fighters from around a strategic town in the Democratic Republic of Congo to boost a peace mission by the UN special envoy.

JERUSALEM, (AFP) - Israel will keep all access to the Gaza Strip closed Tuesday, said an Israeli spokesman.

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan now faces the prospect of a full-year of no growth, officials warned on Tuesday, in a global economic meltdown that has forced US auto chiefs to plead for government help to save their once-proud empire.

PARIS (AFP) - Health providers must arm themselves against a deadly drug-resistant germ that is becoming increasingly common in hospitals and other settings, a study warned on Tuesday.

LONDON (AFP) - Barclays, the second-biggest British bank, said Tuesday that investors from the oil-rich Gulf had agreed to amend terms of their proposed capital injection worth billions of dollars.

TOKYO (AFP) - Embattled US carmaker Ford said Tuesday it will sell a 20 percent stake in its Japanese partner Mazda for 540 million dollars to raise cash.