Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

ANTIOCH, Calif. - Sharon Murch believed she eventually would find her daughter Michaela, who was taken more than a decade ago. The miraculous reunion of another little California girl with her family 18 years after her abduction has only brightened that hope. Full Story »

• Video: Garrido Home Searched Again For Abduction Clues CBS 5 San Francisco
• Slideshow: Kidnapped Calif. girl emerges 18 years later

HOBART, Australia - A cat named Clyde was reunited with his owner on Wednesday after a mysterious three-year odyssey in which the long-haired Himalayan strayed 2,400 miles (3,800 kilometers) into the Australian Outback. Full Story »

• Video: Missing cat found 2,361 miles from home AP

LOS ANGELES - Jordan Lloyd was served the $500,000 grand prize on "Big Brother 11." Full Story »

BOSTON - Daisuke Matsuzaka gave the Los Angeles Angels another thing to worry about in October. The Red Sox right-hander returned from a three-month stint on the DL with six shutout innings on Tuesday night to lead Boston to a 4-1 victory over the Angels, their likely first-round playoff opponent. Full Story »

NEWARK, Ohio (Reuters) - As debate rages on how to reform the U.S. healthcare system, many of the one in six Americans now without medical insurance are hoping that reform brings at least one thing -- affordable coverage. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. economy will emerge from recession by growing more than 2 percent in the current and fourth quarters on a dramatic reversal in inventories, but growth next year will be tepid, a UCLA Anderson Forecast said on Wednesday. Full Story »

KABUL (Reuters) - As many as a third of votes cast for Afghan incumbent Hamid Karzai in last month's presidential election are suspect and must be checked for fraud, the head of a European Union election observer mission said on Wednesday. Full Story »

TOKYO (Reuters) - New Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama took office Wednesday, launching an untested government pledged to radically change how the nation is run and make domestic demand, not exports, the engine of growth. Full Story »

• Video: Japan's next PM Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever, the United Nations relief agency said Wednesday. Full Story »

• Video: Record hunger levels in Oregon KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland, Ore.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States and Israel ended another round of talks on Wednesday with no sign yet of a deal on a West Bank settlement freeze, but a U.S. envoy planned to meet again with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Israeli troops invade Gaza

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Critics in both parties assailed the Senate Finance Committee's healthcare reform plan on Tuesday, one day before the panel publishes a long-awaited bill that could form the basis for compromise in Congress. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Health Care

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - A visit to the last major operating business of the once swaggering Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers feels a bit like entering a pawn shop. Full Story »

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's new centre-left Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama acclaimed a turning point in history on Wednesday as he took command of Asia's biggest economy with a pledge to return power to the people. Full Story »