Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential frontrunner, is fighting on the evangelical battlefront of the Bible belt to secure a White House showdown with Barack Obama.

Republican presidential frontrunner takes sideswipe at rival after Robert Jeffress, a friend of Perry's, calls religion a 'cult'

The Nuevo Liberalism joined the government and was given the Ministry of Agriculture headed by Gabriel Rosas Vega and the Liberal Party gained a solid union that consolidated further when Galán won the Liberal Party's popular nomination to be the presidential frontrunner.

Tonight's debate, hosted by CNN and the right-wing Heritage Foundation think-tank here in Washington DC, also sees a novelty on stage: Newt Gingrich, presidential frontrunner.

Thousands of them had headed south in support of Senator Gregg Hartmann, the presidential frontrunner.

Alberto Fujimori, the 51-year-old son of Japanese immigrants who displaced Mario Vargas Llosa last week as presidential frontrunner, is vowing to shake up Peru, attacking coca cultivation and guerrilla violence and pushing for the entry of this Andean land into the booming economy of the Pacific.