Where there is smoke, there must be fire. Amid denials that there was no strain in the McCain – Palin camp, reports are now surfacing that there indeed was infighting and that Sarah Palin didn't know Africa was a continent.

McCain's Wife Cindy is hospitalized In Michigan after shaking hands with an enthusiast.

Is Ludacris entering politics? The rapper wrote a song about Obama the lyrics of which we present below.

Voters went to the Super Tuesday polls and to caucuses in more than 20 states, Tuesday, providing both Democratic presidential candidates, New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Illinois Senator Barack Obama, with significant wins. On the Republican side, Arizona Senator John McCain surged ahead of his main rival, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. VOA's Greg Flakus has more from Chicago.

Serbs vote this Sunday in Serbia in a presidential election seen to shape the Balkan state's future direction amid rising tensions over the status of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo.

Taiwan's opposition nationalists, who favor closer ties with China, has declared a landslide victory in legislative elections 2008, claiming to have won more than two-thirds of the parliament seats, DD News reports.

Saying he had no regrets, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson on Sunday dropped out of the crowded race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination after a poor showing in a straw poll in Iowa.

Today's presidential Republican debate in Iowa showed that the Republican candidates offer nothing more than a continuation of George Bush’s failed policies for America. The nine candidates on stage either ignored or criticized policies that would benefit Iowans. Instead they focused on their support for the Bush Administration's failures to improve health care, lessen our nation’s dependence on foreign oil and change the strategy in Iraq.

In the first test of their appeal to the most loyal Democratic voting bloc, top 2008 presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in a tight struggle for black support in the crucial state of South Carolina.

Breaking news from New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg left the Republican Party on Tuesday and switched to unaffiliated, a move certain to be seen as a prelude to an independent presidential bid that would upend the 2008 race, reports AP