Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

BOSTON - Fenway Park fell silent, and the Boston Red Sox were on the verge of going down without a whimper. Then baseball's comeback kings did it again.

AURORA, Ill. - An investigation into a medical helicopter crash that killed a desperately ill 1-year-old girl and three crew members will include whether a radio tower's lights were on when the aircraft clipped the structure's wire and went down in a suburban Chicago field, authorities said.

DES MOINES, Iowa - After failing to finish a reading assignment, 8-year-old Isabel Loeffler was sent to the school's time-out room — a converted storage area under a staircase — where she was left alone for three hours.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat said Friday he will stay in power despite growing calls for his resignation in the wake of a deadly confrontation between police and protesters last week.

NEW YORK - The curtain officially went up on Katie Holmes' Broadway debut Thursday as the revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" made its much anticipated premiere.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain shared the same stage and microphone again on Thursday, but this time they traded wisecracks instead of campaign attacks.

LONDON (Reuters) - World leaders demanded tougher banking rules on Friday to protect economies from crisis before a meeting of U.S. and French presidents that officials said would explore ways to reform a crumbling financial system.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Construction starts on new homes fell to a new 17-1/2 year low in September as builders scaled back amid a worsening housing slump and growing turmoil in financial markets that helped pushed permits for new homes to a nearly 27-year low.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. safety investigators on Thursday urgently recommended stepped-up inspections of certain Pratt & Whitney engines on dozens of passenger jets to detect possible flaws linked to the most catastrophic type of failure.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama holds a five-point lead over Republican John McCain, with little immediate indication their final public debate did much to sway the presidential race, a Reuters/C-SPAN/ZOGBY poll showed on Friday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani judge ruled on Friday that a young American man of Pakistani descent could be detained for another two days after he was arrested trying to enter a militant-plagued region on the Afghan border.

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Women and children were among 17 civilians killed in southern Afghanistan, an official said on Friday, but it was not clear if they were victims of a foreign air strike or Taliban rockets.

ANKARA (Reuters) - A shadowy right-wing group goes on trial in Turkey on Monday on charges of trying to topple Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government.

PARIS (AFP) - Fallout from the financial crisis grew in the real economy Friday with job losses and a backlash against banking chiefs as shares ended a crazy week with a new roller-coaster ride.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Republican White House candidate John McCain has pinned his hopes for a late comeback on "Joe the Plumber," the unlikely blue-collar hero of his final presidential debate with Barack Obama.

PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia (AFP) - Cambodia's premier vowed Friday to improve the country's defence capabilities, but insisted there would be no war with Thailand after a deadly firefight erupted on their disputed border.

HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai were set Friday to resume power-sharing talks for a fourth day to end a spat on key cabinet posts holding up a new unity government.

BANGKOK, (AFP) - Thousands of anti-government protesters rallied in Bangkok's business district Friday, police said, as pressure mounts on the prime minister to step down after last week's deadly street clashes.

PARIS (AFP) - The French bank Caisse d'Epargne lost around 600 million euros (800 million dollars) in a derivatives trading "incident" during last week's market turmoil, the company said Friday in a statement.

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said on Friday it had plunged deep into the red in the third quarter with a net loss of 25 million euros (33.7 million dollars), but its sales volumes beat analysts' expectations.