Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

NORFOLK, Va. - Barack Obama will be a one-man television blitz on Wednesday, saturating prime-time with a 30-minute ad and popping up on the buzzy late-night TV scene.

MIAMI - Republican John McCain, scrambling after one of the biggest battlegrounds of the presidential election, is touting his history on national security and trying to link the issue of the country's safety to the financial meltdown.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean intelligence indicates that ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il suffered a serious health setback and has been hospitalized, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

ALBANY, N.Y. - Thousands of utility customers around the Northeast awoke without power Wednesday morning, a day after the season's first big snowstorm blew through the region.

LOS ANGELES - Cloris Leachman's silly antics are over on "Dancing with the Stars." The outspoken actress and her professional partner, Corky Ballas, were eliminated Tuesday from ABC's popular dancing competition.

LONDON (Reuters) - China cut its interest rate for the third time in six weeks on Wednesday, a measure the United States, Japan and European Central Bank are expected to follow by the end of next week to bolster economies facing recession.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has a steady 5-point national lead over Republican John McCain with six days left in the grueling race for the White House, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - World stock markets put in a second consecutive session of strong bargain-hunting gains on Wednesday, following a huge rally on Wall Street and amid widespread expectations of a sharp cut in U.S. interest rates.

WAM, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani rescuers pulled 160 bodies from the rubble of hundreds of mud-walled homes flattened by a powerful earthquake in the southwestern province of Baluchistan on Wednesday, government officials said.

LONDON (Reuters) - Power tools roar as an army of workmen rushes to ensure Europe's largest city-center shopping mall opens on time, but marketing executives say the crisis in global financial markets has accelerated a trend among consumers to reject conspicuous consumption.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are headed toward historic gains in Tuesday's congressional elections, polls show, as well as herculean challenges afterward on matters from war to Wall Street.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Damascus may close to the public, a U.S. embassy spokesman said on Wednesday, ahead of demonstrations planned in the Syrian capital to protest against a U.S. military raid in eastern Syria.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it was examining changes demanded by Iraq to a stalled security pact that sets the conditions under which American troops could operate in the country after this year.

QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) - A powerful earthquake in southwest Pakistan killed at least 160 people early Wednesday, destroying mud homes and sending survivors screaming into the streets in panic.

MALE (AFP) - A former political prisoner swept to victory in the Maldives' first democratic presidential election, officials said Wednesday, unseating Asia's longest-serving leader and sparking scenes of celebration.

NORFOLK, Virginia (AFP) - Democrat Barack Obama geared up Wednesday to deliver a presidential-style address to the nation in the final stetch of his electrifying White House campaign against John McCain.

SAN SALVADOR, (AFP) - Leaders from Latin America, Spain, Portugal and Andorra meet here Wednesday for a summit focusing on youth and development, under the shadow of the worldwide financial crisis.

PARIS (AFP) - Reckless borrowing against Earth's exhausted bounty is driving the planet toward an ecological "credit crunch", the World Wildlife Fund warned on Wednesday.

LONDON (AFP) - Stock markets soared on Wednesday ahead of an expected rate cut in the United States as hopes rose of a similar move in Japan, but more bad economic news indicated the global crisis was far from over.

LONDON (AFP) - The European single currency advanced against the dollar on Wednesday, ahead of a widely-expected steep interest rate cut from the US Federal Reserve.