Real estate mogul Donald Trump has announced he will not seek the Republican nod to challenge President Barack Obama in the 2012 US elections.
United States voters are showing little enthusiasm for any of the Republican presidential candidates — especially Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.
With incendiary comments on Iraq, Libya and Obama’s birth, the property tycoon has livened up the Republicans’ search for a 2012 candidate.
For centuries, Istanbul lured intrepid shoppers with colourful jewellery and carpets which tumbled from shops in the ancient alleyways of the Grand Bazaar. Today, the city’s affluent young middle-class is embracing a different kind of shopping experience in giant glass-and-chrome malls.
In the end, it was the pictures of Carla Bruni photogenically snogging President Sarkozy on a boat on the River Thames, during their state visit, that made me wish they’d both just clear off back to France, Bruni presumably bobbing gently homewards on a sea of male British drool.