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Vice President Joe Biden and his Republican rival, Paul Ryan, faced off last night in their only debate before the November 6 presidential election. Here is some fact-checking of claims made by the candidates.

US Presidential candidates Barack Obama & Mitt Romney both claim to be a better ally of India. A comparison of their key policies by Yashwant Raj & Pramit Pal Chaudhuri. Tale of the tape Democrat vs Republican | The Oval Office & India | Indian flavour

US President Barack Obama and his defenders will seek to convince voters at next week's Democratic Party national convention to stick with the president they know rather than gamble on someone new — a challenge since most Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction. Many moods of Barack Obama  

Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the future but voters do not seem to be holding it against Democratic President Barack Obama, who slightly expanded his lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney this month, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll says.