Latest news update of the world

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said Tuesday he was surprised by Rick Santorum 's departure from the nomination race and that he has yet to turn to matters such as gathering names of possible running mates. "I do not even have a list," a buoyant Romney told Delaware voters a few hours after Santorum suspended his campaign and cleared the path for Romney's nomination. Romney told about 300 people in a steel fabrication plant that Santorum's announcement was unexpected. When a woman asked about his picking a running mate, Romney laughed and said, "I can't tell you when, and I can't tell you who." Romney said Santorum will continue to play an important role in the Republican Party and the nation's politics. He said he spoke to Santorum earlier in the day and that they discussed ways to move the nation forward. "This has been a good day for me," he said. Santorum's announcement in Gettysburg, Pa., d...

Rick Santorum turned in his most impressive performance yet with conservative, blue-collar and religious voters as he rode to triumph Saturday in Louisiana 's Republican presidential primary , capturing robust support from people across the board, according to an exit poll of voters.Highlighting his strength, the former Pennsylvania senator bested Mitt Romney for the first time among those calling the economy the campaign's dominant issue. As usual this year, more voters named the economy as their top concern than any other problem and 46 percent of them said Santorum was their candidate — an embarrassment for Romney, the former venture capitalist who has claimed he knows best how to create jobs.   Romney retained his usual advantage among voters whose most prized characteristic in a GOP candidate is finding someone who can defeat President Barack Obama this fall. But illustrating the narrowness of the former Massachusetts governor's appeal in the state, 53 percent of ...

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum will each win three states in Super Tuesday primaries, while Newt Gingrich grabbed a vital triumph in Georgia, CNN projected. Santorum's victories showed his continuing strength among conservative voters, while Gingrich's win in the state that sent him to Congress allows him to keep his campaign going. The Santorum victories -- in Tennessee and Oklahoma primaries, and in North Dakota's caucuses -- also hurt Gingrich's Southern strategy after the former House speaker's triumphs in South Carolina and now Georgia, which both border Tennessee.   Tuesday hit Result "It looks we're going to get at least a couple of gold medals, and a whole passel full of silver medals," Santorum told cheering supporters in Ohio, where he was running slightly ahead of Romney in a race too close to call. Romney, meanwhile, easily won as expected in Virginia, Vermont and Massachusetts, the state where he served as governor and considers home....