Barack Obama joked that he was Superman and had been sent to save planet Earth as he joined his Republican rival John McCain at a high-profile political dinner in New York.

WORLD Series champions Boston and the Houston Astros clinched the final two Major League Baseball playoff berths on the last day of the regular season on Sunday.

Connections of Alkaadhem were today leaning towards running their progressive four-year-old in the 10-furlong Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot next Wednesday.