Republican presidential candidate John McCain, a three-time melanoma survivor, has had a spot of skin removed from his right cheek.
Barack Obama is trouncing John McCain in the race for the White House - at least in sales of T-shirts, badges, baseball caps and other campaign merchandise.
Barack Obama says he wants US troops out of Iraq in 2010 but stressed that the country also need a political solution to the conflict.
Iraq's leadership has backed US presidential candidate, Democrat Barack Obama over his plan to pull American combat forces out of Iraq in 2010.
A US Embassy official said Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama arrived in Iraq where he will meet with commanders and troops.
US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has told US media the situation in Afghanistan is critical and it should be the focus of the "war on terror".
US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has met in Kabul with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
US presidential contender Barack Obama has shared Sunday breakfast with American troops in Kabul ahead of an expected meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai.
Republican White House hopeful John McCain has predicted a surge of militant attacks in Iraq around the time of the US election in November.
Former President Bill Clinton says he is ready to campaign for Barack Obama whenever the Democrat needs him.
The US economy is deteriorating so quickly and dramatically it threatens to overtake many proposals the presidential candidates have been offering for months.
Internet satirists JibJab have succeeded where the famed New Yorker magazine failed lampooning US presidential candidate Barack Obama without causing offence.
Republican John McCain has reached out to blacks with a message of boosting education in failing schools.
White House hopeful Barack Obama has promised to switch the "single-minded" US focus on Iraq to al-Qaeda havens in tribal Pakistan.