US first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton would defeat New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for a US Senate seat by a margin of 52 per cent to 43 per cent, according to a Time/CNN poll taken in New York state.
Those questioned favoured Clinton by 65 to 26 per cent on healthcare, 64 to 28 per cent on education and 49 to 36 per cent on bringing federal money back to New York. Giuliani was favoured 59 to 32 per cent on crime.
When the issue became "someone you can trust", Clinton led 45 to 37 per cent.
Sir Bernard Ingham, the controversial former press secretary to Margaret Thatcher, was yesterday charged with criminal damage, Scotland Yard said.
Sir Bernard (66), of Monahan Avenue, Purley, south London, will appear at Croydon Magistrates' Court tomorrow. Sir Bernard is accused of causing criminal damage to a silver Mercedes car last December.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe marked his 75th birthday yesterday with a defiant vow to press ahead with a land-reform programme that has been a political hot potato for much of the country's recent history.
Mugabe told the Sunday Mail his government would acquire 520 white-owned farms for redistribution to blacks as planned despite a recent court ruling. Last week, the administrative court said the government could seize only 321 farms of the 841 it had earmarked in 1997 under a programme designed to correct inequities in land ownership.