Denver, Aug 26: One time Democratic presidential contender John Edwards is begging former aides and backers to forgive him for lying about his affair.

As Democrats kick off their convention on Monday, Edwards is a man without a party or a political future, trying to rebuild bridges through dozens of remorseful phone calls.

It’s proving a hard sell with onetime true believers, the Daily News reported.

Lahore, Aug 26: In numerology terms, former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has been a victim of the digit ‘9’, as on a number of occasions the number proved to be gravely against the ex-General’s interests.

To begin with, his worst days began on March 9, 2007 when he asked the deposed the chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to resign. The development entirely changed the political atmosphere of the country, and ultimately led to his own resignation on August 18, 2008.

Ranchi, Aug 26: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren will take oath as the next chief minister of the state on Wednesday. This would be his second stint in the State CM Office in the past three years.

He will have to prove majority on the floor of the State Assembly on September 1, as per a directive from the Raj Bhawan.

The swearing-in ceremony of the 64-year-old tribal leader will be held at the Morabadi Ground at around 4:00 p. m.

London, Aug 26: Democrat Barack Obama will lose the November US presidential election to John McCain unless he overhauls his message of change, outlines specific plans and reassures Americans that he is one of them, according to swing voters in Denver.

The results of a focus group held by Frank Luntz, the leading American pollster, on the eve of the Democratic convention should sound alarm bells for the Obama campaign after a month in which McCain, has drawn level in the polls.

Singur/ Kolkata, Aug 26: The main Opposition party in West Bengal the Trinamool Congress has warned to continue its protests till its demand of returning the 400 acres of land to the farmers was met.

“Our protest will continue further till the time the government returns the farmers their land which was forcefully acquired from them,” said Madan Mitra, leader of the Trinamool Congress.

Meanwhile, the indefinite siege by the protesters in front of the Tata car plant choked the Durgapur Expressway on Monday, hampering vehicular movement on the entire highway. Trucks and buses have been stranded on the highway since Sunday, when the protest started.

Islamabad, Aug 26: PPP Co-chairman and presidential hopeful Asif Ali Zardari has said that he wanted PML-N leader and former premier Nawaz Sharif to come back to the coalition fold, and that he “can’t disclose the whole truth to the nation”.

About the written agreements between the two parties, he said that both the parties had jointly signed a political understanding, and that the PPP was not scared of those agreements.