Leading writers were today given a second chance to win a Booker prize with a special award commemorating works which “fell through the net” in 1970.

Hillary Clinton was set formally to end her historic bid for the White House today and urge her supporters to rally behind rival Barack Obama, a show of support Democrats hope will help heal the party fractured by a bitter battle for the presidential nomination.

PENNSYLVANIA Governor Ed Rendell yesterday offered Amish elders state police protection from an extremist church group that plans to demonstrate at the funerals of five girls fatally shot in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell today said he will ask Amish elders if they want state police protection from a Kansas church group that plans to demonstrate at funerals of five girls fatally shot in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse.

POLITICIANS are demanding that the FBI explain why it apparently planted bugging devices in the Philadelphia mayor’s office just weeks before the mayoral election.