Nigel Farage has vowed to quit as Ukip leader if he fails to become an MP at the UK's general election, declaring it would be “curtains for me”.

SINCE Georgia’s November 2003 Rose Revolution against Eduard Schvardnadze’s government, a series of other former Soviet governments have fallen after popular revolutions, often with the backing of the US and other Western nations.

US President George Bush yesterday told a cheering crowd of tens of thousands of Georgians that they were proving to the world that determined people can rise up and claim their freedom from oppressive rulers.