Washington, Feb 2: Former United States President Jimmy Carter is facing a five million dollar-plus lawsuit over his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid", which was published by `Simon and Schuster' in November 2006.

The case filed by a group of disgruntled readers in the Manhattan federal court claims that the book "is filled with demonstrable falsehoods, omissions and knowing misrepresentations intended to promote Carter's agenda of anti-Israel propaganda".

New York, Dec 17: Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter says America is ready to elect a gay president.

And the 39th president predicts it will happen in ''near future''.

"I think the entire population of America has come tremendous strides forward in dealing with the issue of gays," the New York Daily News quoted him as telling the website BigThink. com in a wide-ranging interview.

"And I would say that the answer is yes. I don''t know about the next election, but I think in the near future."

The Nobel Peace Prize winner likened the "issue of homosexuality" to "the race issue 50 years ago."

Sen. Barack Obama would be making "the worst mistake" if he chooses Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate – said the former U.S. President Jimmy Carter yesterday.

Jimmy Carter, the former president of United States, announced his vote for Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday. Speaking at the Georgia World Congress Center Tuesday afternoon, Carter said, "The fact is the Obama people already know they have my vote when the polls close tonight."

Offering a judicious piece of advice to Sen. Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter said on Sunday that Clinton should quit her race for Democratic presidential nomination by early June.

Los Angles: It was yet another major victory for the Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama when he won the music industry’s most coveted award, Grammy Award beating two former US presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter in Los Angeles.