Candidates make their final push for votes on the last day of campaigning for Tuesday's US Congressional mid-term elections.

Millions of voters are preparing to vote in the US mid-term elections, with President Barack Obama's Democrats facing a serious setback in the polls.

The UK and France, whose leaders meet in London later, are to sign a treaty agreeing to military co-operation including the testing of nuclear warheads.

At least 40 people are killed in a series of co-ordinated blasts in Baghdad, the first such show of force by insurgents in months.