America’s presidential rivals squared off in their third and final debate today, with Barack Obama accusing Republican candidate Mitt Romney of being consistently wrong on foreign affairs.

Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney confront each other on foreign policy early tomorrow morning UK time in a third and final presidential debate, a must-win televised face-off heading into the final two weeks of the deadlocked campaign for the White House.

Ahead of their last debate, Republican contender Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are cramming foreign policy and taking a rare break from swing-state campaigning.

President Barack Obama hit rival Mitt Romney hard on women’s issues as he returned to the campaign trail after a spirited debate performance that re-energised his bid for a second term.

Obama’s aggressive performance against Mitt Romney has restored his lead but, with just three weeks to the election, it will go down to the wire, writes Andy Sullivan

In a spirited debate that laid out stark choices, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan teed up pointed arguments on the economy, social policy, and America’s place in the world that US president Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney now will drive forward into the campaign’s final stretch.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told donors that Palestinians “have no interest” in peace with Israel and suggested that efforts at Mideast peace under his administration would languish, according to comments captured on newly released video of his private remarks to wealthy donors.

Glanbia has strengthened its US nutritional and ingredients business with the €50m acquisition of Aseptic Solutions Inc (ASI) in Corona, California.

GOOGLE, owner of the world’s largest internet search engine, reported sales and profit that topped analysts’ estimates, a sign the company is benefiting from an effort to expand into mobile and display advertising.

US supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer plans to file for bankruptcy protection.

The French national railway’s bid to win America’s first high-speed rail contract will face the fury of Holocaust survivors today over the company’s role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps.

Lawyers for Michael Jackson dropped an effort to block an auction of the pop star’s personal belongings and other family items, including his gold record for the Thriller album.

Lawyers for Michael Jackson today dropped an effort to block an auction of the pop star’s personal belongings and other Jackson family items, including Jackson’s gold record for his “Thriller” album.

The captain of a cruise ship that sank in the Aegean Sea has been charged with negligence.

A man in Newark, New Jersey, was today sentenced to two years’ probation for shining a laser pointer into the cockpit of a plane as it approached an airport, temporarily hampering its pilots’ vision.

Actor Joe Pesci has been caught up in a bizarre new legal scandal after reportedly thumping a fan who tried to take a photo of the My Cousin Vinny star.

Hollywood hardman Joe Pesci allegedly punched a fan who refused to accept he didn't want his picture to be taken.

THE last couple of years have seen a pretty dramatic exchange rate adjustment by any standards. Since the beginning of 2002 the euro has gained over 43% against the dollar and over 11% against sterling.

Bernhard Langer today insisted becoming Europe’s Ryder Cup captain did not spell the end of his playing career.

Survivors of the Florida rail crash have spoken of the moment the train hurtled off the tracks.

Mail to America’s capital was today being put through bacteria-killing irradiation machines, in the first step in a plan to prevent more anthrax attacks.

FBI detectives believe they have found the anthrax-laced letter which infected a worker at the New York Post newspaper, it was revealed today.