Philadelphia

By John Terrett in Americas on August 14th, 2011

It's August here in the northeastern city of Philadelphia and nearly 50 teenagers have just been rounded up by police for breaking a 9pm Friday night curfew, imposed to combat a spate of flash mob attacks.

By Camille Elhassani in Americas on October 11th, 2010
Photo from AFP

 Democrats are alleging foreign money is being used to influence this year's Midterm Elections. The vote is just three weeks away, and the floodgates of cash being spent to try to sway voters are open.

The US Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business lobby group, has vowed to spend $75m on winning races in key states. Most of the money they're spending is for Republican candidates. But they don't have to disclose their sources of funding.