New York, Oct. 8 : Thirty-nine percent of the 400 uncommitted voters surveyed by CBS have identified Barack Obama as the winner of the second presidential debate held in Nashville, Tennessee. Twenty-seven percent said John McCain won, while 35 percent declared the debate a draw.

After the debate, 68 percent of uncommitted voters said that they thought Obama will make the right decisions on the economy, compared to 54 percent who said that before the debate. Fewer thought McCain would do so – 49 percent after the debate, and 41 percent before.

The Nashville, Oct. 8 : Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain engaged in a spirited second debate here on Tuesday night, with a focus on the current economic mess and their respective stances on key foreign policy issues.

The debate, which was held at Belmont University, saw Obama faulting the Bush administration and by extension McCain for a deregulatory environment that he said had led to the nation’s economic crisis.

Washington  - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain began their second presidential debate Tuesday night in a discussion on the economy against the backdrop of a widening global credit and economic crisis.

In the only presidential debate scheduled in the so-called town hall meeting format, the two candidates quickly heard questions from a group of 80 undecided voters about the financial crisis in the United States and the 700-billion-dollar rescue package approved last week in Congress.

Nairobi - The American author of a controversial book lambasting US presidential hopeful Barack Obama was Tuesday detained by Kenyan immigration authorities as he prepared to launch his book in the East African nation.

Jerome Corsi was picked up by immigration authorities at a Nairobi hotel just before he was due to present "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality" to the public.

Immigration authorities refused to comment on the exact reason for Corsi's detention and what the next step would be.

New York, Oct. 7 : In a sign that the race for president has returned to about where it was before the first presidential debate, the Obama-Biden ticket leads the McCain-Palin ticket 47 percent to 43 percent among registered voters in a new CBS News poll.

Interest, therefore, in Tuesday’s presidential debate is high. Roughly two in three registered voters say they are "very likely" to watch the debate, about the same percentage who said they were very likely to watch the first presidential debate and the vice presidential debate.

Washington, Oct. 7: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said that he has no knowledge of William Ayers' terrorist activities during the violent Weather Underground movement.

"When he went (in 1995) he certainly didn't know the history," chief Obama strategist David Axelrod told CNN.