Arnie's triumph 'unique'

From Moscow to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hometown, the world marvelled at the Terminator film star’s victory in California, viewing it as a uniquely American political triumph with more suspense than a Hollywood script.

“Someone who’s a foreigner in his country, who has an unpronounceable name and can become governor of the biggest American state – that’s not nothing,” French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told RTL radio.