Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

LONDON - Want to lose weight? Try eating. That's one of the strategies being developed by scientists experimenting with foods that trick the body into feeling full.

LOS ANGELES - William Shatner is setting his phaser to stun against his old "Star Trek" co-star George Takei. In a video posted on Shatner's Web site Wednesday, he lashed out at Takei for not inviting him to his wedding last month.

MINNEAPOLIS - After a long, exhausting trip, Ratchet the 6-month-old Iraqi puppy arrived in Minnesota — and promptly took a nap near the baggage claim at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

MUMBAI, India - India's only gorilla is lonely. Even though Polo is 6 feet tall, dark-haired, bilingual and good-natured, the 36-year-old silverback gorilla is still single after a fruitless eight-year search.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Cole Hamels, Chase Utley and the Philadelphia Phillies have the upper hand in the World Series. Hamels worked seven innings and Utley homered as the Phillies knocked off the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 in Game 1 at St. Petersburg.

LONDON (Reuters) - Sweden and New Zealand responded to the global financial crisis by cutting interest rates on Thursday and weak Japanese exports underlined the risk of a deep recession.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama's lead over Republican rival John McCain has grown to 12 points in the U.S. presidential race, with crucial independent and women voters increasingly moving to his side, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock futures fell on Thursday on worry a recession will be deeper than anticipated as more corporate earnings and outlooks disappoint.

LONDON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to cut about 3,260 jobs, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

(Reuters) - The Bush administration is weighing a roughly $40 billion proposal to help forestall housing foreclosures, one of a series of ideas under consideration to address the root causes of the financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported.

KABUL (Reuters) - A roadside bomb has killed three soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition force in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces declared an area once known as the "triangle of death" safe enough for Iraqi troops to take charge on Thursday, handing over responsibility for security in Babil province to Iraqi forces.

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles into a Pakistani village early on Thursday, killing at least seven people, residents and an official said, the latest strike on a stronghold of a veteran Taliban commander.

LONDON (AFP) - Deepening fears of a global recession ensured another battering for the world's stock markets on Thursday as governments stepped up efforts to restore banking sector confidence.

HILLA, Iraq (AFP) - Iraq took control of the central Shiite province of Babil from US forces on Thursday, in what local officials said was further sign of security gains across the war-torn nation.

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - Suspected US spy drones fired missiles early Thursday into a school set up by a top Taliban commander in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan, killing 11 people, security officials said.

LEESBURG, Virginia (AFP) - US presidential hopeful Barack Obama played up his foreign policy credentials while John McCain highlighted national security, as a poll Thursday showed the Democrat hanging onto his lead in three key states.

LONDON (AFP) - A drug licensed for use against leukaemia braked and even reversed the effects of multiple sclerosis among patients with MS, according to an early trial reported Thursday by reseachers.

TOKYO (AFP) - Sony Corp. warned Thursday that a global economic slowdown, a stronger yen and fierce price competition will slash its profits by more than half in the current financial year.

VIENNA (AFP) - OPEC ministers began arriving here Thursday on the eve of a key meeting at which the cartel is set to cut its oil output, to help lift crude prices hit by a drop in demand caused by an economic slowdown.