Washington, Oct. 22: Republican presidential candidate John McCain continues to trail behind Democratic rival Barack Obama in states that were won by incumbent President George W Bush in 2004.

McCain''s move to distance himself from Bush appears to be reaching voters, despite a barrage of ads from the Obama campaign accusing the Arizona senator of being in lock step with the president.

A CNN/Opinion Research poll found that 52 percent of voters think McCain’s policies would be different from Bush''s, up eight percentage points in just two weeks.

Cairo - Egyptian Human Rights activist and long-term democracy advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim said he would meet the new US president on December 6, with a delegation that represents several continents.

The sociology professor told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in a telephone interview that "it has been agreed with the teams of both Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama and his Republican rival John McCain to hold a meeting with whoever wins the election."

Representatives from Europe, China, Africa, Latin America and the Arab world will meet the next president, with former US president Jimmy Carter and current incumbent George W Bush, to discuss US foreign policy and present the group's diversified points of view.

Washington, Oct 22 : A recent poll findings released by CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) have revealed that three in every four Americans were of the opinion that things in the US “were going badly” in the country, and that they were angry about it.

Asked if they were scared about the way things were going in America, 24 per cent said “very scared” and 43 per cent said “somewhat scared.”

Washington, Oct. 22 : The proverbial American dream of self-made success and well being is intact and remains important to most of them, according to the Washington Times.

More than three-fourths of Americans "personally believe" in the American dream and insist it''s what makes the nation dynamic.

According to a survey of 2,112 adults released Wednesday by J. Walter Thompson, a Manhattan-based marketing group, eight out of 10 want the next president to "breathe new life" into the concept, with more respondents citing Republican hopefuls than Democrats in such a lofty endeavor.

Washington, October 22: A new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health''s Center for Injury Research and Policy has revealed that the rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade.

According to the report, the annual overall suicide rate rose by 0.7 percent that was witnessed amongst whites aged 40-64, especially in middle-aged women.

The increase in the suicide rate between 1999 and 2005 saw an annual increase with the rate rising to 2.7 percent amongst middle-aged white men as against the 3.9 percent among middle-aged women.

New York, Oct. 22: The Republicans have unleashed a blistering mailing against Barack Obama that invokes the 9/11 attacks with a disturbing image of a jumbo jet and a warning that the Democrat nominee isn''t "who you think he is."

According to the New York Post, the attack flier reportedly has been landing in homes in Missouri and Virginia – two states that the Democrats have been working hard to convert to blue in November.

The front cover shows a plane with its nose aimed squarely at a few travelers in an airport waiting area, and warns, "Terrorists don''t care who they hurt."

The image of a plane in conjunction with terrorism was a clear reference to the airplanes-as-weapons attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.