06 Nov 2012 12:21 - Aude Genet Paved roads, electricity, running water: Barack Obama's ancestral home has seen much change, and residents are preparing to watch the polls.
06 Nov 2012 11:41 - Pat Reber , Frank Fuhrig , The first votes in Tuesday's US presidential election produced a tie as nationwide polls showed Barack Obama and Mitt Romney neck and neck.
05 Nov 2012 20:39 - Reuters While schools and public transport have reopened, tens of thousands of people are still without electricity a week after Hurricane Sandy hit.
04 Nov 2012 13:12 - Charles Molele It has been a hectic weekend for foreign journalists and the White House press corps on the campaign trail in Ohio.
02 Nov 2012 12:50 Zuma stays mum on the spy tapes, AfriForum, Malema, and the ANC shake it out, Obama and Romney go head-to-head, and men across the globe go hairy for cancer.
02 Nov 2012 00:00 - Gary Younge Studies show that Americans believe the economy is important, but they largely still vote according to race and class. Gary Younge reports.
01 Nov 2012 13:57 - Alina Selyukh Amid the chaos of the US election campaign's closing days, Ohio has become a test centre for the growing science of political advertising.
30 Oct 2012 13:09 - George Monbiot Letting taxpayers fund parties directly could revive the rotten system - and it would be cheaper too, writes George Monbiot.
29 Oct 2012 17:36 Just a week short of the US presidential election, we look at President Barack Obama and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney's battle for top spot.
29 Oct 2012 14:50 - Stephen Collinson US President Barack Obama raced back to the White House on Monday ahead of Hurricane Sandy, which threw election endgame plans into turmoil.
26 Oct 2012 00:00 - Ed Pilkington Obama has a variety of different routes to victory on November 6, but Romney's hopes are next to moribund unless he wins in Ohio.
26 Oct 2012 00:00 - Gary Younge A global poll for the BBC World Service has revealed that 20 out of 21 countries preferred Barack Obama to his challenger.
21 Oct 2012 06:55 - AFP Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have spent the weekend hammering out their foreign policy battle lines ahead of their final debate on Monday.
20 Oct 2012 06:43 - Margaret Chadbourn , Jeff Mason , Barack Obama told a crowd of about 9 000 in the battleground state of Virginia that Romney was backtracking on his conservative-leaning promises.
18 Oct 2012 16:56 US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's spectacular "binders full of women" gaffe has spawned dozens of internet tributes. The M&G rounds up the best.
19 Oct 2012 08:02 - Gary Younge Barack Obama may have had the upper hand in the latest presidential debate, but the real loser was politics, writes Gary Younge.
19 Oct 2012 00:00 - Mail & Guardian Correspondent The US debate tradition began in 1858 when, during the senatorial campaign, Abraham Lincoln challenged an opponent from the audience.
14 Oct 2012 11:28 - Rob Lever The 2012 US presidential election campaign is being fought with tweets, hashtags, Facebook updates and emails in a battle for digital supremacy.
