<P>Despite his low poll numbers, Barack Obama is going back to the campaign trail ahead of midterm elections that could see his party lose its majority in congress.</P>
Americas
<P>Americans are taught to venerate the US constitution as a model charter for ensuring life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but has the free speech fetish gone too far?</P>
<P>As Muslims in the US find themselves increasingly under attack, religious leaders attempt to send message that other faiths will speak out against discrimination.</P>
<p>Corruption is a common theme in Brazil's politics, but the country's new 'clean slate' law now bars anyone with such charges pending against them from running for political office.</p>
<P>Now that the direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians have begun, so too, many are afraid, has something else: the countdown to the next round of violence in the region.</P>
<P>Is there enough room in the US for everyone's dreams?</P>
Dilma Rousseff has never been elected to public office, but the polls indicate her first such position could be the most important one in Brazil: Mrs President.
<p>Anti-humor law calls for fines that can reach roughly $100,000 against the broadcasters who allow comedians appearing on their station who violate it.</p>
<p>Approximately 400 people gathered in lower Manhattan this weekend to protest about the building of an Islamic cultural centre and mosque near the World Trade Centre site.</p>
<P>Amid several primary elections in the United States, two have focused particular attention. </P>
<P>As he campaigns for members of his beleaguered Democratic party, the US president can no longer fill a stadium with enraptured Americans young and old.</P>
