Moderate Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wins a landslide re-election, as Democrats seize New York city hall and the Virginia governorship.

The actor who starred as Darth Vader in the original Star Wars films urges actors from Bristol auditioning for the new film to "disguise their accents".

Minister Jo Swinson, who prompted a debate by standing in the Commons while heavily pregnant, says it is not sexist to offer a pregnant woman a seat.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is accused by a former Conservative minister of springing policy announcements on cabinet colleagues without warning.

Late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, says a Swiss forensic report obtained by al-Jazeera.

BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Statoil are among firms accused in a New York lawsuit of manipulating the Brent crude oil price market.

A British soldier killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan is named as Warrant Officer class 2 Ian Michael Fisher from Barking, east London.

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