Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore told his party that Ireland is no longer the sick man of Europe and has become its likeliest success story.

President Barack Obama can beat rival Mitt Romney as a television draw, but can not eclipse his old self.

By Matt Spetalnick and John Whitesides, Washington Charlotte,North Carolina

SENATOR Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Governor Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Hillary Clinton to Florida on Monday and bolstering his plan to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said.

IT IS politics but like nothing witnessed before.

Barack Obama said today that both Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill “couldn’t have been more clear” in their support for his candidacy.

IRISH political parties have clearly indicated their preference for the next president of the United States by not sending a single representative to the Republican convention where John McCain will be officially nominated as candidate.

Barack Obama cranked up his campaign in the final days before the Democratic convention, drawing closer to naming a running mate and attacking what he said was Republican rival John McCain’s habit of questioning his “character and patriotism”.

REPUBLICAN John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton yesterday looked ahead to the next battles in a chaotic White House race after scoring tough wins in the first presidential voting in the south and west of the US.

Former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary have taken her elderly mother into their Washington home to look after her.

The bitter irony of Superman living a life confined to a wheelchair was not lost on Christopher Reeve.

WHERE did John Kerry spend Christmas of 1968? Vietnam, it seems. Which is not what he has been saying for 25 years.

JOHN KERRY’s campaign team yesterday called for a book which contains “proven falsehoods” about the presidential candidate’s Vietnam war record to be taken off the shelves.

THE majority of Americans are unhappy with the direction their country is taking and with the main policies of President George Bush, according to a new poll.

Pop hunk Justin Timberlake is getting involved in politics as the American Presidential election in November draws nearer - and he's supporting the Democrats.