Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

WASHINGTON - A decision by Barack Obama to postpone his first meeting as president with the Dalai Lama is overshadowing a visit to Washington this week by the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists. Full Story »

BERN, Switzerland - The Swiss Justice Ministry says it has rejected an appeal from Roman Polanski to be released from prison pending his possible extradition to the United States. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Director Roman Polanski

MINNEAPOLIS - Brett Favre added another feat to his overflowing resume: He's the first quarterback in history to beat all 32 NFL teams. Full Story »

MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota Twins seem to think that 162 regular-season games aren't enough. The Twins will host the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday in a tiebreaker for the American League Central title and a trip the playoffs. It is the second straight season that the Twins have needed a 163rd game to finish the season, a first in league history. Full Story »

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday signaled it could return to nuclear disarmament talks it had declared dead six months ago, but a report it was near restoring its atomic plant underlined the secretive state would keep the stakes high. Full Story »

• Video: China-N.Korea in new courtship Reuters
• Slideshow: North Korea

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A pioneer in fiber-optics and two scientists who figured out how to turn light into electronic signals -- work that paved the way for the Internet age -- were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates blamed the Taliban's revival on a past failure to deploy enough troops to Afghanistan and said U.S. forces would not withdraw whatever the result of President Barack Obama's strategy review. Full Story »

• Video: US deaths play up Afghan stakes Reuters
• Slideshow: Afghan Election

ISTANBUL/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Big oil producing nations denied a British newspaper report on Tuesday that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies in trading oil. Full Story »

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's central bank raised its key cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.25 percent on Tuesday and heralded more to come, saying it was safe to row-back on stimulus now that the worst danger for the economy had passed. Full Story »

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) restated its confidence in the H1N1 flu vaccine on Tuesday, calling it the most important tool against the pandemic. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Swine Flu

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran plans to use a new generation of centrifuges for enriching uranium at its newly-disclosed nuclear fuel facility, its atomic energy chief said in remarks published on Tuesday. Full Story »

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a U.N. office in which five people were killed, saying the United Nations was a U.S. slave. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Pakistan

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea Tuesday expressed willingness to return to six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations it quit six months ago, but only after it talks directly to the United States to improve "hostile relations". Full Story »