MITT ROMNEY entered the final full day of campaigning in South Carolina’s primary contest scrambling to fend off challenges from more conservative rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum and insisting he’s the one that Republicans can trust to “post up well” against President Barack Obama in the autumn.

Honduras’ coup-installed president told a US congressional delegation that full civil liberties would be restored within days, a spokesman for one of the politicians said.

US health officials said tonight they have ruled out the abortion pill RU-486 in one of two deaths in women who had taken the drug. The second is still under investigation.