The controversy over Sarah Palin and her selection as Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's running mate is a "faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee" for vice president, his campaign said today.

John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin said today that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter was five months pregnant.

The George Bush campaign has said John Kerry’s refusal to concede the state of Ohio was delusional.

GEORGE BUSH’S campaign team has played down reports that the president was fitted with a transmitter to allow him to receive help during a televised debate.

DEMOCRATIC challenger John Kerry yesterday broadened his attack on President George W Bush to include stem cell research when he accused his rival of ignoring science that could offer millions of sick Americans a chance at a cure.

John Kerry accused President Bush today of relying on front groups to challenge his record of valour in the Vietnam war, asserting, “He wants them to do his dirty work”.

AS BILL Clinton basked in the spotlight yesterday at the opening of the Democratic convention, John Kerry visited Florida to press his case as to why voters should put him the White House in place of President George Bush.

US presidential hopeful, Democrat John Kerry, says George Bush should ask other countries for help over the crisis in Iraq.

US Democratic hopeful John Kerry has called for monthly debates with President George W. Bush to elevate the tenor of a presidential election campaign that has opened with a relentlessly negative tone.