Mitt Romney faces a daunting to-do list as he transitions into the role of likely Republican presidential nominee.

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 US Air Force sergeant has been killed in an accident in the Arabian Peninsula, becoming the first American death in Operation Enduring Freedom.