Vietnam war veteran John Kerry was today starting to look like the unstoppable candidate to win the Democratic ticket to run for presidency, after a series of fresh victories.

FORMER US President Bill Clinton is urging wife Hillary to stand for election to the White House, it was claimed yesterday, despite her insistence that she wants to remain in the Senate until 2006.

NATO soldiers are today streaming into Macedonia ahead of a key visit by a senior alliance general who is to decide whether the country is stable enough to begin weapon collection efforts.