Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama dismissed the "lipstick on a pig" controversy as a "silly season in politics" before White House candidates halted their attacking adverts to mark the seventh anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks today.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s comments that “you can put lipstick on a pig” were “offensive and disgraceful”, his rival John McCain’s campaign said today.

THIS is the week John McCain takes a measure of what the Republican presidential nomination is worth.

Susannah Martin, hanged in 1692 during the Salem witch trials, can finally rest in peace.