This US presidential election is seen as one of the most bizarre in modern times, with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump setting the tone. But now Jeb Bush is joining in by questioning another candidate’s height and the boots he wears.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Steve McQueen, and Gravity will be the big winners at the Oscars if a company which analyses social media continues its run of accurate predictions.

IT will be interesting, after tomorrow’s US Presidential debate, to watch the credit-takers lining up behind the winner.

The final key economic report four days before the US presidential election held something for both candidates today, showing the monthly unemployment rate ticked up slightly but created far more jobs than expected.

South Carolina voters go to the polls later in a key vote in the US Presidential campaign.

TWO period dramas set 200 years apart in American history — Mad Men and John Adams — claimed a place in the Emmy record books as US television’s highest honours were presented in a ceremony rife with political undertones.

A KEY Taliban commander said that al-Qaida terror network chief Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar are both alive and in good health after more than three years on the run.

In the greedy world of spam e-mail and electronic fraud, nothing is sacred - not even the death of Pope John Paul.

US President George Bush has promised to seek the incoming Iraqi government’s permission to demolish the Baghdad jail at the centre of prisoner abuse allegations.

John Kerry has shot into a 10 point lead only days before New Hampshire holds the first primary to find a Democratic candidate in this year’s US presidential election.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush pledged today that they would not be deflected from the task of bring “freedom, security and peace” to Iraq following the Istanbul bomb attacks.

Australia and the United States are racing to complete a free trade deal before the issue is sidelined by next year’s US presidential elections, the government said today.

A MAJOR upturn in the media business and the economy in general was predicted by influential British advertising and media commentator Martin Sorrell in Dublin yesterday.