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Clinton, Trump clash over economy in final campaign stretch

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign concert featuring Jay-Z and Beyonce in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

AMERICA: Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump battled over the strength of the economy in the final stretch of their race for the White House on Friday, with Clinton praising the latest U.S. jobs report and Trump dismissing it as a fraudulent disaster.

With four days left in an often bitter contest that has tightened in the last week, each candidate attacked the other as unfit to be president in a late push for votes in battleground states that could decide the outcome in Tuesday's election.

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