An eBay bidder who won a £5,000 (€6,000) chicken nugget resembling George Washington has chickened out of the deal.

Thursday is a critically important date in the 2008 US presidential race, Evan Thomas and Richard Wolffe look at Iowa’s history as a graveyard for front runners and a launching pad for long shots.

A RESERVE member of the State of Iowa police force vowed yesterday to go on hunger strike if he was not allowed return to the US and rejoin his pregnant wife.

SENATOR John Kerry yesterday accused President Bush of “dodging and bobbing and weaving” on explanations for nearly 400 tons of missing explosives in Iraq.