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.

Stockholm  - Swedish public broadcaster SVT screened footage Thursday of US Republican Party presidential candidate John McCain leaving North Vietnam after his release from a prisoner-of-war camp.

Swedish writer Erik Eriksson, who covered the Vietnam War as a freelance and for SVT, made the discovery when researching a book on his wartime experience and compiling a 30-minute DVD that would be sold with the book.

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.

Washington, Sept. 11: A reality check on the McCain campaign’s attack on Senator Barack Obama''s supposed insult of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, suggests that the Republicans may be off target, according to a CBS News report.

According to CBS, the McCain campaign has jumped too hard on Obama''s use of the phrase "lipstick on a pig."

Washington, Sept. 11 : Republican presidential nominee John McCain has criticized British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for endorsing Barack Obama in a magazine article.

According to The Telegraph, the McCain Campaign has questioned Brown’s lavish praise of Obama’s economic policies.

The paper predicts that this endorsement could open a serious rift between the Republicans and the British Government, should the former enter the White House after November 4, 2008.