• Three parties - Labour, Tories and Lib Dems - have also named candidates for Wales' first double by-election.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | MP's widow to fight assembly seat

  • He was also backed by the third- and fourth-placed candidates from the first round and a leading anti-slavery campaigner.

    BBC: Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi

  • The 49-year-old was one of four candidates interviewed to head the 2, 207-strong constabulary.

    BBC: Suzette Davenport

  • Four other presidential Republican candidates - including Texas Governor Rick Perry - failed to qualify for the Virginia ballot.

    BBC: Newt Gingrich fails to qualify for Virginia poll

  • The bill failed this year but is likely to return for the next Congress--both presidential candidates favor a cap-and-trade program.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Hertha Berlin remain bottom, and are now five points from safety, after they were well-beaten 3-0 at fellow-relegation candidates Nuremberg.

    CNN: Wolfsburg up to fifth place after victory

  • Will the candidates - well, three of them anyway - will they show up for duty this week in Senate?

    NPR: Polls Show Post-Convention Bounce For GOP

  • They're not interested in candidates who spend their own money and lose - candidates like Mitt Romney and other spectacular flame-outs.

    NPR: Justices Hear Campaign Finance Case

  • For companies, it offers an efficient way to pre-interview candidates and cuts down on time-consuming in-person meetings and inefficient phone screenings.

    FORBES: The Innovation That Could Make Most Job Interviews Obsolete

  • Secondly, no candidates campaigned in Florida while many candidates - including Barack Obama - took their names off the ballot in Michigan.

    BBC: US election at-a-glance: 31 May-6 June

  • They can be used to place short-term bets on market trends, while their rock-bottom expense ratios make them ideal candidates for buy-and-hold portfolios.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It has equally surprised those - including Smith himself - who were expecting the prime candidates to come from high-echelons of the business world.

    BBC: Gordon Smith is on the ball as he arrives at Hampden Park

  • He had a come-from-nowhere victory in the May 2007 primary--when he bested four other candidates, including two congressmen--then a four-to-one trouncing of his opponent in November.

    FORBES: A Fresh Face

  • However, we will allow all candidates--those who cooperated and those who did not--to resubmit their questionnaires at a later date, and we will update our database accordingly.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • African-American candidates also won down-ballot races with majority white support, casting a blow to the notion that New Orleans politics and culture are mired in racial tension.

    CNN: New Orleans is storming back

  • Ruddock is set to announce who his captain is later this week, after asking candidates - including last season's skipper Colin Charvis - to interview for the position.

    BBC: Wales call for Ospreys tyro

  • And second, with the exception of Paul, none of these candidates -- including Obama -- have succeeded in creating anything like a movement behind them in this cycle.

    CNN: From Howard Dean to the tea party: The power of Meetup.com

  • The special committee ruled that the pro-Khatami candidates could re-enter the race but only if they pledged in writing their loyalty to the principle of velayat-e-faqih, or clerical rule.

    ECONOMIST: Iran

  • The GOP gubernatorial contest in Nebraska is a bank-breaking affair involving well-known candidates from each major faction of government -- federal (Christensen), state (auditor John Breslow) and local (Lincoln Mayor Mike Johanns).

    CNN: Republican Prospects Strong in Nebraska

  • In the three force areas where just two candidates are standing - Dyfed-Powys, North Yorkshire and Staffordshire - registered voters will be presented with a familiar "first past the post" ballot paper.

    BBC: How the PCC elections work

  • Meanwhile, the LDA says it has also contacted two counties about taking on the stadium after 2012, although the four most obvious candidates - Surrey, Middlesex, Essex and Kent - deny they have been approached.

    BBC: MCC prepares for stadium rivalry

  • Realizing that not all aspects of the job hunt should occur online, TeamWork Online goes offline with a speed-dating, match-making idea and organizes events that bring candidates and senior team executives together to meet face-to-face.

    FORBES: Want A Job In Sports? You'll Need TeamWork

  • He also hit out at the present proportional representation system for voting for assembly members which he described as leading to "perverse outcomes", with candidates defeated in a first-past-the-post system getting in under the regional list ballot.

    BBC: Hain defends Whitehall changes

  • In others, like the Mason-Dixon poll, the three top candidates - the Clinton, Obama - and ever just still tied there, but Obama and Clinton in that poll are also tied in New Hampshire and South Carolina.

    NPR: Huckabee Gets Momentum; Oprah Helps Obama

  • The Lakers and their two MVP candidates - Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant - are on a roll and have moved into the sixth spot ahead of my own Utah Jazz after two unexpected losses on the road.

    BBC: NBA enters crucial stage

  • As in Kenya, the two leading presidential candidates - Zanu-PF's President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC - finally came together in early 2009 to form a unity government that has helped bring stability to the country.

    BBC: Letter from Africa: Kenya fuels poll optimism

  • In the campaign headquarters of Moulod Hamrouche, one of the leading ex-candidates, adrenaline-charged campaign staff manned the phones and faxes beneath blank result-charts, working desperately to pass word of the pull-out to all the campaign offices across Algeria's vast desert hinterland.

    ECONOMIST: Algeria: A farce, again | The

  • Eric Garcetti, 42, and Wendy Greuel, 51 - both veterans of city hall - have been cited as mayoral candidates who might face each other in a run-off vote in May if no candidate wins a majority of the vote in Tuesday's election.

    BBC: Los Angeles mayoral election under way amid low turnout

  • For us, expanding opportunity means not the backward-looking plans of Labour's Deputy Leadership candidates - who only see a future for more state-owned and run housing - but helping young people onto the housing ladder through a massive extension of shared ownership and the right to buy.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | In full: Cameron speech

  • The government will be anxious to avoid a repeat of the 2008 nomination process, which saw its top two picks as governor rejected by the DPJ on the grounds that the candidates -- Muto and Koji Tanami, former vice-finance minister -- represented a threat to the BoJ's independence.

    CNN: Kuroda emerges as Bank of Japan frontrunner

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