AP - Finding a running mate tops the summer to-do lists of John McCain and Barack Obama, and each needs to decide what he wants as much as who he wants.

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton ended her historic campaign for the presidency on Saturday and told supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama, closing out a race that was as grueling as it was groundbreaking.

AFP - A poll showing that the EU reform treaty could be rejected in an Irish referendum next week set alarm bells ringing in Dublin and Brussels on Friday.

AP - John McCain and Barack Obama are using the foreign policy challenge of a rising Iran to play up what each describes as the other's weaknesses — inexperience or recklessness on Obama's part and McCain's embrace of failed tactics.

AP - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sat in comfortable chairs, sipped water and spoke for an hour about the presidential campaign to come. Just the two of them, without aides. And they parted laughing.

AP - With his Democratic foe now certain, Republican John McCain is deploying dozens of staffers into battleground states, boasting of improved fundraising and expanding his advertising into some of the most competitive terrain of the general election.

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton is ready to thank her supporters for hanging on during her 17-month roller coaster journey from sure thing to also ran and to urge them to rally behind Barack Obama.

AFP - France's plan to submit Turkey's bid to join the EU to a referendum is an "insult" and could spark a serious rift between Paris and Ankara, France's Europe Minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet said.

AP - Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a global warming bill that would have required major reductions in greenhouse gases, pushing debate over the world's biggest environmental concern to next year for a new Congress and president.