Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich clashed repeatedly in heated, personal terms in the first campaign debate since South Carolina’s primary scrambled the race to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama.

Mitt Romney convincingly won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary last night, a major step toward cementing his position as the party's choice to run against President Barack Obama in November.

FORMER Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, once the No 3 Republican in the Senate, said yesterday he’s seeking the GOP nomination for president.

The Republican Party’s search for a challenger in the 2012 presidential race seems stranger by the day.

Iraqis are ready to “take the training wheels off” and assume political power from the US-led coalition, President George Bush said as his administration began to outline a rough plan for the June 30 transition of authority.

US President George W Bush said he looked forward to signing into law newly passed legislation to end the “abhorrent practice” known by critics as partial birth abortion, thereby giving anti-abortionists a victory that has eluded them for a decade.