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 Barack Obama is the new president of the United States. This would be a normal thing for the Americans to hear every four years, but this year has made history. Obama is the first black president of the States which so much hated the color people. They’ve enslaved them and fought them, but finally chose them to be their leaders.And...
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 Kanye West was nominated for three awards
at this year’s Black Entertainment TV (BET) awards and he won the prize for
Best Male Hip-Hop artist and best collaboration for Good Life featuring T-Pain.
Hip-hop group UGK was named best group and also won video of the year for “International
Player’s Anthem (I Choose You)” featuring...
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Frank Rich, an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times, signed on with HBO as
a creative consultant, Reuters reports.
Rich will contribute to the network’s original programming development, and
could become a producer on any projects he helps shepherd. He said his role would
be “to bring ideas, to vet ideas, everything from...
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 The search to find the successor of Miss USA 2007 Rachel Smith ended. Crystle Stewart, 26, of Missouri City, Texas has been crowned Miss USA beating all the other 50 beauty queens, the Associated Press reports.
Crystle Stewart will represent the country in the Miss Universe contest later this year and she will work with official...
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Barack Obama won the spoken-word Grammy for his best-selling
audio book “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
This is the second Grammy award for Obama, who previously received the award in
2006, for the audio book “Dreams from My Father,” a memoir he first published
in 1995.
The senator was not...
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 Black Eyed Peas’ frontman, will.i.am did a considerable work
to sustain Barack Obama’s political campaign.
The viral video “Yes We Can,” which he says it is inspired
by the message transmitted by Obama united a series of A-list celebrities to
sing in the video. It’s interesting that the song, that is sure to become a
hit, hasn’t...
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 The recently elected president of the United States, Barack Obama, is the subject of a malicious malware campaign designed to steal information from infected computers. Malware authors created a Trojan that exploits the high volumes of Web traffic around Obama, 60 percent of all spam messages using his name in what has become a...
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Nigerians were jubilant Wednesday after Barack Obama was declared the 44th president of the United States of America.
Many Nigerians stayed glued to their television sets to monitor the election.
The moment Obama was announced to have won Ohio and Pennsylvania, cheering erupted in beer parlours and homes across Africa's most...
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US airstrikes inside Pakistan are unacceptable, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Thursday, a day after a suspected US drone carried out the first US airstrike on a militant hideout outside Pakistan's tribal region.
"Such attacks will not be tolerated," Gilani told the National Assembly, the lower house of...
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US president-elect Barack Obama telephoned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and promised him that his administration would continue efforts to advance the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said in a statement sent to reporters overnight that in Tuesday's telephone conversation,...
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Iran is to hold a conference to review the victory of Barack Obama in the US presidential elections and its impact on Tehran-Washington relations, the website of news network Press TV reported Monday.
One of the featured speakers will be Iran's former ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad-Javad Zarif, who is considered a US...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that US president-elect Barack Obama should change the American approach towards nations in general and Iran in particular.
"The (Obama slogan of) change should not just be superficial. What is important is change in approach towards nations," Ahmadinejad said in a speech...
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South Korean President Lee Myung Bak said he has no objections to a potential meeting between US president-elect Barack Obama and North Korea leader Kim Jong Il.
He said in an interview with the Chosun Ilbo newspaper that appeared Tuesday that he would expect any such meeting would help to abolish North Korea's nuclear weapons...
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At least two civilians were killed in a US airstrike in western Afghanistan, the latest in a series of incidents in which non-combatants have died in anti-insurgency operations, officials said Thursday.
The latest airstrike took place on Wednesday in Ghormach district of the western province of Badghis after a group of Taliban...
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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned US president-elect Barack Obama Thursday against holding a dialogue with Iran, saying Tehran could interpret such overtures as "weakness."
But she added she was not concerned that a US administration under Obama would greatly chance its attitude toward Israel.
"The bottom...
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As celebrations erupted in many parts of the world over the victory of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, people in Pakistan, a key US ally in the fight against terrorism, remained generally indifferent and even apprehensive.
"What difference does it make for us? His victory can be good for America, perhaps for many...
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The secretary-general of Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Wednesday welcomed the election of Barack Obama as a leader more inclined to work with the world.
"I congratulate the people of the US for electing a president who is ready to work with the world," said ASEAN secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan....
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China expects continuity but fears trade protectionism once Barack Obama takes office as US president, a leading scholar said on Wednesday.
"China's expectation of the new president is the same as the whole world's expectation, that is, to develop US finance and the economy away from the global financial crisis and economic...
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders welcomed Wednesday the victory of Barack Obama in the US presidential election, with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni calling it a "badge of honour" and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urging him to get involved in the peace process "immediately."
"President Abbas looks...
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Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Wednesday congratulated US president-elect Barack Obama, praising his "high human qualities" and political capacity.
Moroccans shared with their US friends faith in Obama's values of "unity, freedom, equality, social justice, sense of duty and political realism," the king said in his...
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Democrats Abroad members will be gathering in special venues throughout Asia, from a secret "watering hole" in alcohol-free Kabul to a popular barbecue house in Bangkok, to watch the US election results on Wednesday, Asia time.
If pre-election interest is anything to go by, the turnout to watch the televised results...
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Thousands of Iranian students chanted anti-American slogans in front of the former US embassy Monday, vowing to keep up their resistance to what they called "United States colonialism."
Young demonstrators, mainly schoolchildren, burned US flags outside the abandoned diplomatic compound in downtown Tehran, which radical...
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Pablo Fierro came to Washington from Philadelphia for a rally against the proposed 700-billion-dollar financial bailout, which the House of Representatives could vote on Friday.
He held up an orange sign: "No to the bankers' coup d'etat."
Thursday's rally within shouting distance of the US Capitol was organized by a...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday declared his readiness to have a televised debate with the two US presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain.
"I have no intention to officially meet American officials in New York, but I am ready for a televised debate with the two US presidential candidates at the...
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New Zealand's election on November 8 pits Helen Clark, a parliamentary veteran and one of the astutest politicians the country has seen, against John Key, a political learner who would be the most inexperienced prime minister elected in more than a century if he wins.
Clark, 58, has been a Labour member of parliament since 1981 and,...
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Kenyan police are stepping up security in the village of US presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother after thieves targeted her home, reports said Thursday.
Obama's grandmother Sarah, 86, said burglars broke in through her kitchen door in the western Kenyan village of Kogello and attempted to steal a solar panel from her...
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US vice-president-elect Joe Biden will visit Spain to improve bilateral relations that deteriorated during the presidency of George W Bush, the daily El Pais reported Tuesday.
The visit was agreed on Monday during a telephone conversation between Biden and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who got in touch with each...
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The European Commission on Friday threatened to refer the United States to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over Washington's plans to subsidize its ailing car industry.
"Of course, if it is illegal state aid, we will act at the WTO level," Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told French radio station Europe 1.
A...
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Russia supports the idea of holding a summit of the world's greatest powers in 101 days' time to debate the reform of the global financial system, a Kremlin official said Friday.
"As I understand it, we support" a proposal from French President Nicolas Sarkozy to hold a summit of the world's 20 greatest powers 100 days after...
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski Friday called for patience before US president-elect Barack Obama makes up his mind on the fate of US missile defence plans in Eastern Europe.
Speaking to reporters in Prague, Sikorski said Obama told him he wants to make sure the system works. The minister would not say what that could mean...
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Amnesty International appealed Monday to Germany and other European nations to provide homes to 50 detainees from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.
The men cannot return to their home countries "for fear of torture or other serious human rights violations," the human-rights group said in Berlin.
It said it was...
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday refused to apologise for calling US president-elect Barack Obama "sun-tanned."
The outspoken premier was approached at a European Union summit in Brussels by a US journalist, who had asked him to say sorry for offending Obama with the racial slur.
"It is you who...
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After leading the way in responding to the world financial crisis, Europe could be facing headwinds as it attempts to press on with a rapid and comprehensive overhaul of the global finance sector.
Gone are the high-minded calls for sweeping changes to the international financial system as proposed only a few weeks ago by French...
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European Union leaders said Friday they were leading world efforts to reform global finance by agreeing on a common set of principles and on five specific recommendations to avert future credit crunches.
The common EU position, agreed after more than three hours of "intense" discussions over lunch in Brussels, is intended to...
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Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates on Wednesday described US president-elect Barack Obama as giving "an opportunity of change to the United States and the world."
"The voice of Barack Obama is a voice of hope," Socrates said in his congratulatory message to the new US president.
Obama's victory...
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Senior politicians in the three small Baltic states added their voices to the chorus of congratulations for Barack Obama after his US election victory Wednesday.
There was unanimity in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that the result offered a chance to deepen an already warm transatlantic relationship.
Estonian foreign minister Urmas...
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Wednesday hailed the victory of US president-elect Barack Obama as opening the way for "more positive" bilateral relations.
Madrid would be a "friend and faithful ally" of Washington, said the Socialist premier, whose decision to recall Spanish troops from Iraq...
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Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov on Wednesday expressed confidence the United States would remain the "leader in building and strengthening of a peaceful and prosperous world" under Barack Obama's presidency.
"I and the Bulgarian nation congratulate your election as president of the US and wish you success in the...
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US president-elect Barack Obama's victory means "a new image for America across the world," and seems "like a fairy tale," Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said Wednesday.
But an opposition leader had doubts Obama could be tough enough with Russia.
"It's a joyful moment, because Americans feel that...
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The British Labour government and opposition parties Wednesday hailed as "inspirational" the victory of Barack Obama in the American presidential election which they hope will open a new era in the much-vaunted "special relationship" between Britain and the US.
"This is a moment that will live in history as...
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Baltic leaders voiced hope Wednesday that ties with the US will strengthen further with Barack Obama as president, including cooperation in confronting Russia.
Top politicians in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all said the outcome of Tuesday's election offered a chance to deepen an already warm trans-Atlantic...
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Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende congratulated Barack Obama on Wednesday with his victory in Tuesday's US presidential elections.
The Dutch prime minister sent a letter to the US president-elect, wishing him success.
In a statement released by the Dutch government communication service RVD, Balkenende further said "it...
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European Union leaders Wednesday congratulated Barack Obama on his victory in the US presidential election and called on him to work with the EU to solve the world's most pressing problems.
"This is a time for a renewed commitment between Europe and the US. I want to assure Senator Obama of the support of the European Commission...
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The United States "will remain the leader" in resolving the world's crises and promoting democracy when president-elect Barack Obama takes power in January, Albanian President Bamir Topi said Wednesday.
Topi congratulated Obama on his victory in Tuesday's election, calling it a "lesson in democracy" and "a...
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US president-elect Barack Obama will create "a new image for America across the world," building on an election victory that seems "like a fairy tale," Poland's foreign minister said Wednesday.
"It's a joyful moment, because Americans feel that something very important has taken place," Radek Sikorski...
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Zagreb (dpa) - Barack Obama's election victory opens "a new chapter" in US relations with the rest of the world, Croatia's president said Wednesday.
Stjepan Mesic congratulated the US president-elect in a statement.
"I am convinced your arrival as US president will mark the start of a new chapter, not only in the...
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If the informal straw poll at Harry's New York Bar in Paris is a reliable indicator, as it has been most of the time, Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States.
On Monday, one day before polling at Harry's Bar closes, the Democratic candidate had a lead of 248 to 154 votes, or 61.6 to 38.4 per cent, over his...
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Eleanor Holmes Norton, outspoken veteran of the civil rights and feminist movements, is an ardent backer of Democrat Barack Obama for the US presidency who has represented the District of Columbia for 17 years in the House of Representatives.
She shared her thoughts on next Tuesday's vote and what it would mean to African Americans to...
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Were it up to Danish voters, US presidential candidate Barack Obama would win a landslide victory, a Danish newspaper reported Friday.
The Gallup poll commissioned by the Berlingske Tidende newspaper indicated that Democrat Barack Obama was supported by 80 per cent of Danish voters, while Republican John McCain was backed by 5.8 per...
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Britain's Times newspaper Friday backed Barack Obama to become the next president of the United States, saying the Democratic candidate had shown the "character, intelligence and judgment" to take the job.
"It is for the American people to choose the next president of the United States ... Yet it would be naive to think...
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US film director Woody Allen expressed strong backing for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday, saying it would be a "humiliation and a shame" if Obama did not beat John McCain in the upcoming elections.
Obama was "much better then his opponent" and the only way forward after "eight...
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US presidential candidate Barack Obama Sunday
made his first appearance back on US soil meeting a convention of
minority journalists in Chicago where he emphasized multinational
cooperation for future US foreign policy. After Obama's
return from Europe and the Middle East he faced sharp criticism from
the opposing camp for not...
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 The eve of the election brought the highest ratings on Monday during the two-hour special edition of Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008. According to Nielsen estimations, NBC won most viewers with ages between 18 and 49. Excluding the Olympics, the network won the first place in ratings on the night before the elections.14.4...
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 The Republican Party candidate for the presidential elections seems to not have finished his work of convincing the American people that he is the right leader for them. The presidential elections will take place in three days and John McCain has decided to appear on “Saturday Night Live” for one more time. After Barack Obama had so much...
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 On Wednesday night the major broadcast networks will air the half-hour campaign ad made for Barack Obama. Still, the ABC won’t do it because their program on Wednesday night is too important. Instead, they have tried to reschedule the campaign ad on a different night. According to ABC, they lost their chance to give time on their...
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 The wife of the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama came to Jay Leno on Monday. And she looked quite good as she spoke about the $150,000 given by the Republican National Committee to be spent on clothes for Sarah Palin and her family. "Actually, this is a J. Crew ensemble," Michelle Obama told about the yellow...
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 American television journalist and lawyer, best known for his role as the moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Prees” Sunday talk show, Tim Russert collapsed at the offices of WRC-TV, which houses the Washington, D.C. bureau of NBC News where he was the Bureau Chief, while prerecording a segment for the Sunday edition of “Meet the Press.” He was...
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 The Oprah Winfrey Show, America’s most
popular talk-show, has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years
and nearly 7 percent this year, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The circulation of O, The Oprah Magazine,
has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years, according to the Audit
Bureau of...
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 New President of the United States, Barack Obama, stated during a televised interview on Sunday that he has a plan for the Government, which should not worry about money issues in the next two years as long as they spend it to overcome the poor economy they are going through right now.Obama is scheduled to take George Bush’s place as a...
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The world's 20 top economies reached a deal Saturday to better regulate global financial markets and take steps to halt a global economic slide.
Negotiators agreed on a final declaration Saturday morning during the first-ever summit of the Group of 20 (G20) nations in Washington, Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa has learned.
Leaders...
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From Kenya to Kentucky, jubilant supporters of Barack Obama are naming their baby boys after the man who will become the leader of the free world on January 20.
These Obama mamas even have a good solution for naming their baby girls. Expect to see the names of Obama's wife Michelle, and two daughters Sasha and Malia, zoom up the...
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Obama fever may have swept the world, following the Democratic presidential candidate's historic election victory Tuesday. Now millions of computer users are under threat from an Obama virus, network security companies said Friday.
Authors of the virus are hoping to benefit from the huge interest in US president-elect Barack Obama,...
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US cable channel HBO has bought the rights to a documentary about president-elect Barack Obama, produced by Oscar- nominated actor Edward Norton, the Hollywood Reporter said Friday.
A crew for Norton's Class 5 Films has been following the African- American politician since early 2006 - even before he announced his intention to run...
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US president-elect Barack Obama's childhood years in Indonesia may provide him with a unique personal link to South-East Asia, but it remains to be seen how deep the old school ties go, analysts warn.
Obama, the first African-American to be elected president, can also claim to be the first US president to have spent almost four...
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Democrats increased their control of Congress in US elections Tuesday, picking up significant gains in the Senate and House of Representatives by capitalizing on a backlash against Republicans and President George W Bush.
The Democrats won three Senate seats vacated by retiring Republicans in Virginia, New Mexico and Colorado, while...
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela said Wednesday Barack Obama's election to the White House was a triumph for hope.
In a letter of congratulation to the president-elect, Mandela, 90, said: "Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a...
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Michelle Obama, was born on January 17, 1964 and grew up in a one-bedroom apartment on Chicago's South Side where her mother, a former secretary, still lives. Her late father was an employee at the city's water plant.
Sometimes compared to Jacqueline Kennedy, Michelle, 44, will bring her own style of charm and sophistication to the...
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African-Americans wept and hugged as the diverse crowd in Chicago's Grant Park erupted with joy at the news that Barack Obama would be the nation's first black president.
But the roar that went up from the 65,000 people admitted to the official rally quickly subsided into reverence and awe as the Illinois senator began to...
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Election day finally arrived Tuesday for the record throngs of US voters planning to cast their presidential ballots for either Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain.
Obama held a significant lead in opinion polls as state officials braced for an unprecedented turnout and massive lines at polling places in an election...
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As Chicago braced for a throng of 1 million people at a public park in anticipation of Democrat Barack Obama's victory Tuesday, Republicans Monday were wishing them bad weather and a cliff-hanger election.
"I hope the million or so people who are planning to gather in Chicago have a long, cold night," quipped Mitt Romney,...
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 Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee managed to gather 33.5 million people in front of their TVs on Wednesday night. His ad for the presidential campaign was the most-watched telecast in the U.S. prime time and made an “American Idol” size audience. The 30-minute ad consisted of a speech of Obama who talked about his plans...
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The US economy contracted by 0.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, the sharpest decline in seven years amid a global financial crisis that has blocked credit access and severely depressed consumer spending, the US government said Thursday.
The initial estimate by the Bureau of Economic Analysis puts the US on track for a...
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The US economy contracted by 0.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, the sharpest decline in seven years amid a global financial crisis that has blocked credit access and severely depressed consumer spending, the US government said Thursday.
The initial estimate by the Bureau of Economic Analysis suggests the world's largest...
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US presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain campaigned across Pennsylvania on Tuesday and continued battling for the public's confidence to nurse a sagging US economy back to health.
McCain vowed he would "fool the pundits" and capture Pennsylvania in next week's general election, as polls showed the Republican...
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain met with economic and business leaders on Monday, while Democrat Barack Obama was to address voters with remarks he dubbed his "closing argument" as the campaigns made their final pushes ahead of next week's elections.
The faltering US economy remained the key issue of the race...
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Calling Senator Barack Obama the "right man for a perilous moment," the Washington Post newspaper Friday endorsed the Democratic candidate for the US presidency.
With the endorsement, the paper added its national weight to 39 other regional newspapers - including the Boston Globe and St Louis Post Dispatch - that have...
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Calling Senator Barack Obama the "right man for a perilous moment," the Washington Post newspaper Friday endorsed the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, adding its national weight to 39 other regional newspapers - including the Boston Globe and St Louis Post Dispatch - that have declared for the centre-left...
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Behind the scenes after a US presidential election debate, so-called spin doctors wrestle to impose their own side's interpretations of what the country just heard.
Campaign specialists evaluate and parse every event, comment and speech. Their prime goal is to make an impression on the US media, which are covering the longest and...
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US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a fast-paced debate Thursday night, in which both reached out to middle-class Americans and touted their own running mate as best able to bring about change for the country.
In a highly anticipated debate...
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US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a fast-paced debate Thursday night, in which both reached out to middle-class Americans and touted their own running mate as best able to bring about change for the country.
In a highly anticipated debate...
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Sarah Palin, the running mate of Republican White House hopeful John McCain, has erased some of the doubts over her fitness for the top job after a fast-paced and wide-reaching debate with Joe Biden, vice presidential pick of Democrat Barack Obama.
Coming into Thursday night's debate, Palin, a one-term governor of Alaska, had faced...
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In the clearest terms yet, the Senate's top Democrat, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Friday charged that the Republican presidential nominee John McCain had derailed a congressional agreement intended to rescue the country from a devastating financial crisis.
"A few days ago, I called on Senator McCain to let us know where he stands...
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Republican John McCain has decided to attend the first presidential debate with Democrat Barack Obama Friday evening after earlier suggesting he might not show up because of the nation's financial crisis.
Citing McCain's staff, CNN reported that McCain has now decided to fly to Oxford, Mississippi, to participate in the debate with...
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 Omhari Sengstacke, 31, of Chicago, was arrested on Tuesday after he had come near the security barriers outside Barack Obama’s house. According to the U.S. Secret Service, Sengstacke is part of an important Chicago family and he had never wanted to hurt the Democratic presidential candidate.Sengstacke was arrested at about 6:30 a.m. and...
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 According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the leader of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, turned down actress Lindsay Lohan when she offered her support on | | | |
