Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Gates asks allies to send troops to Afghanistan AP - 52 minutes ago

  OHRID, Macedonia - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday urged Eastern European leaders to shift their military efforts from Iraq to Afghanistan, where their forces are more urgently needed.

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  BlackBerry Storm has touch screen you can feel AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  NEW YORK - Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.

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  Nick Nolte escapes his burning home in Malibu AP - 53 minutes ago

  MALIBU, Calif. - Actor Nick Nolte jumped out a window and used a hose to fight a fire that broke out in his Malibu home Tuesday, authorities said.

• 2 people watch 123 hours of movies in NYC AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  NEW YORK - You may want to try this at home. Suresh Joachim (YOH'-kum), of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra (wahv-RA'), of Germany, claim to have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plexi-glass house in Times Square.

• IOC to retest doping samples from Beijing AP - 30 minutes ago

  LONDON - The International Olympic Committee will retest doping samples from the Beijing Games to check for traces of a new blood-boosting drug.

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  Fed, central banks cut rates Reuters - 11 minutes ago

  LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Central banks around the world cut interest rates in unison on Wednesday in a joint response to the global financial crisis, giving a boost to battered stock markets.

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  Obama, McCain battle in tense debate Reuters - Wed Oct 8, 4:04 AM ET

  NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama battled over the best way to help struggling U.S. workers on Tuesday in a sometimes tense presidential debate that highlighted a wide gap in their economic approaches.

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  World stocks down despite central bank cuts Reuters - 43 minutes ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - Stock markets across the world were lower on Wednesday despite coordinated interest rate cuts by world central banks designed to ease fears about the worst financial crisis in nearly 80 years.

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  China cuts rates, required reserves in global action Reuters - 22 minutes ago

  BEIJING (Reuters) - China cut interest rates and lowered banks' required reserves on Wednesday as part of a coordinated drive by global central banks to halt a free-fall in world financial markets.

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  ECB cuts rates by 50 basis points in coordinated move Reuters - 41 minutes ago

  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank cut interest rates on Wednesday for the first time in more than five years as part of coordinated action with other major central banks to shore up the global economy.

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  Pentagon looks outside NATO for Afghanistan troops Reuters - 15 minutes ago

  OHRID, Macedonia (Reuters) - The United States called on southeastern Europe on Wednesday, including aspiring NATO members, to send more troops to fight the insurgency in Afghanistan.

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  Obama has slim 2-point lead on McCain Reuters - Wed Oct 8, 1:08 AM ET

  NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has a slim 2-point lead on Republican rival John McCain in a tight White House race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

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  Russia starts troop pullback from Georgia Reuters - 21 minutes ago

  KARALETI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russian troops started pulling back from buffer zones outside South Ossetia on Wednesday, two months after Russia's brief war with Georgia which increased tension with the West.

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  Central banks unleash rate cut offensive against finance turmoil AFP - 9 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - Major central banks launched coordinated interest rate cuts on Wednesday in a new gamble to counter the global financial crisis as Britain launched a massive rescue of its banking system.

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  White House rivals trade barbs in second debate AFP - Wed Oct 8, 5:11 AM ET

  NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AFP) - John McCain hammered away at unruffled front-runner Barack Obama in Tuesday's second presidential debate but failed to land the cutting blow likely to revive his sliding poll numbers.

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  Mbeki loyalists threaten split from South Africa's ANC AFP - 1 hour, 54 minutes ago

  JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Supporters of ousted South African president Thabo Mbeki threatened Wednesday to split from the ruling African National Congress, accusing its leaders of abandoning democratic ideals.

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  Russia withdraws from Georgian war zones AFP - 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

  KARALETI, Georgia (AFP) - Russian forces abandoned buffer zone posts around Georgia's rebel regions on Wednesday in a major pull-back expected to be completed during the day, two months after the war with Tbilisi.

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  Nobel awarded for fluorescent jellyfish protein AFP - 32 minutes ago

  STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Osamu Shimomura of Japan and US duo Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for a fluorescent protein derived from a jellyfish that has become a vital lab tool.

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  Patient delighted after world's first full arm transplants AFP - 5 minutes ago

  BERLIN (AFP) - The world's only recipient of two full arms in a transplant appeared in public on Wednesday to talk about the success of the procedure, calling the feeling of being whole again "indescribable".

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  Central banks launch concerted rate cut AFP - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

  FRANKFURT (AFP) - World central banks launched a concerted action to cut interest rates by half a point on Wednesday in a major new step to counter the deepening global financial crisis.

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  Green jellyfish protein scientists win Nobel Reuters - 28 minutes ago

  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Americans and a Japanese researcher won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for the discovery of a glowing jellyfish protein that makes cells, tissues and even organs light up -- a tool used by thousands of researchers around the world.

• Fed, central banks cut rates Reuters - 11 minutes ago

  LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Central banks around the world cut interest rates in unison on Wednesday in a joint response to the global financial crisis, giving a boost to battered stock markets.

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  Thai protesters seek revenge after clashes Reuters - 29 minutes ago

  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Protesters seeking to topple Thailand's government on Wednesday threatened more demonstrations in the capital, a day after two people died and over 400 were injured in the worst street violence in 16 years.