President Barack Obama’s election team is mobilising a massive get-out-the-vote effort aimed at carrying the Democrat to victory as the campaign enters its final days.

President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney launched a frenzied final weekend of campaigning today seeking an edge in a handful of battleground states that will decide the outcome of a tight presidential race that is going down to the wire.

A US COLLEGE dropout and Muslim convert who threatened the creators of the South Park cartoon series and then tried to join an al Qaida-linked terror group in Somalia has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

A US college dropout and Muslim convert who threatened the creators of the “South Park” cartoon series and then tried to join an al-Qaida-linked terror group in Somalia has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.