Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has selected Paul Ryan, a US congressman from Wisconsin, as his vice presidential running mate.

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s whining and flip-flopping is making him look like a wimp with something to prove, not a steady future leader of the Western world, writes Michael Tomasky

FIRST we had George W Bush being misunderestimated, now we have Mitt Romney being mischaracterised.

Mitt Romney would respect an Israeli decision to make a unilateral military strike against Iran aimed at preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear capability, a top foreign policy adviser said today.

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign would like to be focusing its attacks on Democratic President Barack Obama around now.

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, struggling to recover from remarks that critics said showed indifference to America’s poor, yesterday won the endorsement of real estate mogul Donald Trump.

MITT Romney, the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is promising Americans deep spending cuts, smaller government, trade penalties on China, a new Federal Reserve chairman and sweeping deregulation.

MITT ROMNEY’S whisker-thin Iowa caucus victory was underwhelming in scope and anti-climactic in its finality — but it moved him closer to the Republican presidential nomination chiefly because of who finished fourth and fifth.

A SQUEAKER of an Iowa victory in hand, Mitt Romney headed last night into the New Hampshire primary — in his own political backyard — insisting that staying power sets him apart from runners-up Rick Santorum and Ron Paul and the rest of the Republican presidential field.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said today that he is looking forward to a long nomination race after beating Rick Santorum by the narrowest of margins in the Iowa caucuses.

MITT ROMNEY has seized the lead in Iowa days before the unpredictable heartland state’s caucus kicks off voting to decide the Republican presidential nominee, a new poll showed.

MITT ROMNEY scrambled last night to recover from a debate disaster in which he challenged a fellow White House contender to a $10,000 (€7,500) bet, saying the sum had merely been rhetorical.

A CONFIDENT Mitt Romney criticised his Republican rivals and fended off attacks at a feisty deb-ate that could help reinstall him as the party’s presidential frontrunner.

Republican presidential contenders turned the heat on the two frontrunners in a debate, attacking businessman Herman Cain’s economic plan as a tax increase and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney over his health care law.

QUICK to tangle, Republican presidential rivals Rick Perry and Mitt Romney sparred vigorously over job creation and social security in a feisty campaign debate that marked a contentious new turn in the race to pick a 2012 challenger to President Barack Obama.

HE CAME into office on a wave of promise and promises.

HILLARY CLINTON and Barack Obama split the Democratic Party delegates yesterday as John McCain declared himself the front-runner in the Republican race after the biggest Super Tuesday in history.

John McCain will win New York and all of the state's 101 Republican delegates, CNN projected.