Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Congress weighs the fate of Fannie, Freddie AP - 2 hours, 14 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Congress should view the next few months as a "time out" in the highly charged debate over what to do with mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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  DeGeneres returns with first show since marriage AP - 1 hour, 39 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Ellen DeGeneres premiered her sixth season as host of "Ellen" with two notable changes: a new studio and a wedding ring. The syndicated talk show returned Monday with a taped episode from the show's new set on the Warner Bros. studio lot in Los Angeles.

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  Online dating new tool for zoos with rare species AP - 1 hour, 46 minutes ago

  COLUMBIA, S.C - Attention, amorous guys: Killarney's an Australian cutie, but woo her with care.

• Man says he's eaten 23,000 Big Macs since 1972 AP - 1 hour, 40 minutes ago

  FOND DU LAC, Wis. - A 54-year-old man says his obsessive-compulsive disorder drove him to eat 23,000 Big Macs in 36 years.

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  Federer beats Murray for 5th US Open, 13th major AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Back at his best, back at the top, Roger Federer beat Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 Monday to win his fifth consecutive U.S. Open championship and 13th Grand Slam title overall.

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  Poll shows big shift to McCain among white women Reuters - 28 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain has gained huge support and now leads Democrat Barack Obama among white women voters since naming Sarah Palin as his running mate, according to a survey published on Tuesday.

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  Ike spins toward western Cuba and aims at Gulf oil Reuters - Tue Sep 9, 5:35 AM ET

  HAVANA (Reuters) - A weakened Hurricane Ike swept toward western Cuba early on Tuesday after it ripped a swath of destruction and killed four people on the eastern end of the island, and is expected to strengthen as it aims for Gulf of Mexico oil fields.

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  Russia plans 7,600 force in Georgia rebel regions Reuters - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military announced plans on Tuesday to station about 7,600 troops in Georgia's separatist regions, a sharp increase on the numbers deployed before Moscow sent in troops last month.

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  McCain and Palin urge Fannie, Freddie restructuring Reuters - Tue Sep 9, 3:36 AM ET

  (Reuters) - Republican White House nominees John McCain and Sarah Palin would ensure mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were permanently restructured and downsized, the pair wrote in The Wall Street Journal.

• Blast in Afghan east kills 3 U.S. coalition troops Reuters - 1 hour, 54 minutes ago

  KABUL (Reuters) - A roadside bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday killing three soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition forces and a local contractor working with them, the U.S. military said.

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  North Korea fetes birthday, questions over Kim Reuters - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea celebrated its 60th birthday with a triumphal military parade on Tuesday just as the hermit state appears to be backing away from a disarmament deal, but leader Kim Jong-il failed to appear, Kyodo news reported.

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  Russia says Iran nuclear plant nearing completion Reuters - Tue Sep 9, 3:18 AM ET

  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant is nearing completion and the start-up of its reactor will soon become "irreversible," the Russian state-owned company that is building the power station said on Tuesday.

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  Pakistan's Zardari vows to work with neighbors Reuters - 13 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Asif Ali Zardari was sworn in as president of Pakistan on Tuesday and vowed to work with neighbors, particularly Afghanistan, after a period of strained relations between the two U.S. allies over Taliban violence.

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  Zardari sworn in as Pakistan president AFP - 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Asif Ali Zardari took office as Pakistan's new president Tuesday and faced immediate pressure to tackle both a raging Islamic militant insurgency and the country's struggling economy.

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  Thai PM, cabinet must resign over TV show: court AFP - 2 hours, 9 minutes ago

  BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his entire cabinet must resign over the scandal surrounding his TV cooking show, the Constitutional Court said Tuesday.

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  Russia forges diplomatic ties with Georgia regions AFP - 11 minutes ago

  MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Tuesday that Russia was establishing diplomatic ties with the two breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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  Deadly Ike slams Cuba, eyes the US AFP - 49 minutes ago

  HAVANA (AFP) - Hurricane-force winds hit Havana early Tuesday as Ike pummeled Cuba with lashing rains and towering waves that have already killed four people.

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  Bush orders limited Iraq drawdown, Afghan ramp-up AFP - Mon Sep 8, 11:08 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, (AFP) - With less than five months left in his term, President George W. Bush was to announce Tuesday he is ordering a modest US troop withdrawal from Iraq and ramping up force levels in Afghanistan.

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  Opposition UNITA acknowledges election defeat in Angola AFP - Tue Sep 9, 12:18 AM ET

  LUANDA (AFP) - Angola's opposition party UNITA acknowledged defeat in last week's legislative election, as the ruling MPLA savoured an overwhelming win in the country's first post-war election.

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  Britain's BG abandons bid for Australian Origin Energy AFP - 1 hour, 57 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - British gas firm BG Group abandoned a bid for Australian Origin Energy on Tuesday, saying the price was too high after Origin tied up with US oil giant ConocoPhillips to produce clean gas for Asia.

Most Popular Top Stories

• U.S. plans $7 billion missile-defense sale to UAE Reuters - Mon Sep 8, 7:48 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration is planning to sell the United Arab Emirates an advanced U.S. missile defense system valued at up to $7 billion that could be used to defend against Iran, people who have attended briefings on the matter said on Monday.

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  Russia says Iran nuclear plant nearing completion Reuters - Tue Sep 9, 3:18 AM ET

  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant is nearing completion and the start-up of its reactor will soon become "irreversible," the Russian state-owned company that is building the power station said on Tuesday.

• 7 Ways to Learn More Without More Study U.S. News & World Report - Tue Sep 2, 4:49 PM ET

  The abundance of new research on how teenage brains work, aside from being cool for its own sake--teen brains are developing madly, pruning synapses and insulating neurons to build a lean computing machine--is fueling a new movement to help kids make the most of the brain they've got. Think of it as a user's manual for a machine that's still being wired.

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  North Korea used taekwondo group to plot murder: report Reuters - Tue Sep 9, 1:38 AM ET

  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea infiltrated an international taekwondo group, using it as a front to send out spies and plot the killing of a South Korean president who ruled for much of the 1980s, newspapers said on Tuesday.

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  U.S. frees cameraman working for Baghdad TV station Reuters - Tue Sep 9, 5:19 AM ET

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military has released an Iraqi cameraman who works for a television station in Baghdad after detaining him in a raid last week.