Nairobi - Kenyan police have set up a 24-hour guard outside the home of US presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother after thieves targeted her home, reports said Friday.

Obama's grandmother Sarah, 86, said burglars broke in through her kitchen door in the western Kenyan village of Kogelo and attempted to steal a solar panel from her roof.

Local police chief Johnston Ipara told the Daily Nation that two tents had been set up outside Sarah Obama's home until a permanent police station was built nearby.

Nairobi, Sept. 12 : Kenyan police have increased security for Barack Obama''s African relatives after thieves tried to break into the village home of his step-grandmother.

Sarah Hussein Onyango, 86, said that she woke to find her front door had been kicked down and someone had tampered with her solar panel, installed so that she can watch the US presidential race on television.

Following the incident, officers said they may install a small police post in the village of Kogelo, in remote western Kenya, where Mr Obama''s father grew up herding goats.

New York, Sept. 12 : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama should focus more on Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s readiness to lead, says a former Hillary Clinton loyalist, adding that she still needs to be “tested” on that ability.

“I would deal with this differently, and not because (Palin) is a woman,” Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California told FOX News.

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Washington  - The hard-fought presidential campaign was put on ice Thursday out of respect for the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

But the nominees were participating in some of the formal commemoration activities at the sites where 19 Islamic terrorists crashed hijacked passenger planes into the symbols of America's financial and military might on that September day.

New York, Sept. 11 : The McCain campaign has escalated its efforts to portray Democratic presidential rival Senator Barack Obama as a candidate whose values fall outside the mainstream.

It unveiled a new television advertisement claiming that Obama favors “comprehensive sex education” for kindergarten students.

“Learning about sex before learning to read?” the narrator asks in the 30-second advertisement, which the campaign says will be shown in battleground states and on national cable.