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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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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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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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Many would want to rest after tomorrow’s elections or maybe they just want it to be over as they can think about how to surpass the financial crisis that they are going through. But for people like Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, David Letterman of Anderson Cooper, things aren’t so tragic. They’ve earned so much during the presidential...
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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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 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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 Republican presidential candidate John McCain is accusing video site YouTube of acting too quickly in the problem of his campaign videos, suspect of copyright infringement. McCain’s campaign sent a letter on Monday to YouTube’s parent company Google, protesting against YouTube’s removal of some campaign videos after receiving take-down...
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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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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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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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Two top supporters of US presidential hopeful John McCain on Thursday urged Poland to "quickly" ratify a deal to station part of a Pentagon anti-missile shield, and condemned Russian "belligerence" in the wake of its invasion of Georgia.
"We cannot allow ourselves to be bullied by the Russians out of ratifying...
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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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Nancy Reagan, former first lady of the U.S. and widow of President Ronald Reagan, was hospitalized after she had fractured her pelvis and lower spine. Her spokeswoman said that she had suffered the fractures in a fall at her home last week. The 87-year-old former first lady was taken to the University of California, Los Angeles Medical...
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 Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie performed as a member of the pop group Breakfast Club and she managed to release her self-titled debut album in 1983. After that she produced three number-one studio albums in the 1980s. Sticky and Sweet Tour is the seventh world tour concert of the American pop singer and it supports her eleventh studio...
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 Anne Heathaway’s private diaries have been confiscated
by the FBI. FBI agents are looking for details related to ex-boyfriend’s financial
dealings.
The “Devil Wears Prada” star, who split
from boyfriend Raffaello Follieri just days after he was arrested had had her
intimate diaries confiscated during a raid on the Italian...
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 Hollywood stars paid tribute to Warren Beatty, who received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute (AFI), USA Today reports.Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton and Quentin Tarantino attended the celebration of Beatty’s 47-year career.Former president Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance at...
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 A promotional commercial featuring TV chef Rachel
Ray was pulled after she was accused of dressing like a terrorist. Critics said
the black-and-white scarf with a paisley floral design offered symbolic support
for Muslim extremism and terrorism.
In the ad, the host of one of the
top-ranked daytime programs on television wears a...
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 What exactly is Obama’s plan to get the United States out of this financial crisis? He has Rahm Emanuel to work with him, but now it seems that the newly elected president wants to co-work with John McCain. And the two met today in the Windy City, but it seems that their reunion didn’t work out so well.Their meeting was briefly made...
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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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John McCain did not mince words in his reaction to an important Supreme Court decision in June on the rights of suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
McCain called the 5-4 the ruling "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country," adding that it would result in the courts being flooded by a...
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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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The US Congress was moving closer to an agreement on the 700 billion-dollar financial rescue plan, lawmakers said Thursday, a day after a sombre US President George W Bush laid out the spectre of a "long and painful recession."
Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a senator from Arizona, said in broadcast remarks he...
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The US presidential election campaign was put on ice Thursday out of respect for the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The nominees participated in some of the formal commemoration activities at the sites where 19 hijackers crashed passenger planes into the symbols of US financial and military might on that September...
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Barack Obama stormed into the backstretch of his historic race for the White House on Thursday, painting a sweeping vision of his confidence in America's promise and reinforcing it with details of how he would restore America's image overseas and the economy at home.
Obama, 47, the first African-American major-party presidential...
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Denver police arrested 31 protesters outside the Democratic presidential nominating convention on Tuesday, including 13 anti-abortion demonstrators.
Eighteen people including out-of-state residents were arrested by the Denver police, bringing to 135 the total number of arrests since Saturday, before the convention opened, police said...
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Anyone who expected Hillary Clinton to bow gracefully from the scene or be a sore loser may want to think twice after the heartfelt endorsement she delivered for her onetime rival Barack Obama for US president.
The former first lady, 60, made a grand, triumphant entry into the Pepsi Center convention hall Tuesday evening, creating a...
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Waving blue and white signs, 4,400 Democratic delegates roared approval at a parade of the party's stars on Monday, including the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy, former president Jimmy Carter and Michelle Obama.
Whether it was the kind of energy that will propel presumptive candidate Barack Obama, 47, into the White House in November...
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Michelle Obama stole the limelight and apparent affection of Democratic delegates Monday night, describing husband Barack Obama as a persistent suitor in their courting days who would carry the same kind of determination into the White House.
The couple provided a rare and at times humourous glimpse into their private lives in one of...
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 John McCain, 72, is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and a presumptive nominee in the 2008 presidential election for the Republican Party. "I'm not running for President to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things," McCain said when he announced his...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain are head to head in the run for the White House, a new poll said Monday.
According to CNN both candidates can count on 47 per cent voter support, the news channel said a few hours before the Democrats kick off their presidential convention in...
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Republican White House hopeful John McCain
made his sharpest divide yet from US President George W Bush, declaring
in a new television advertisement Tuesday that the state of the nation
has worsened over the last four years. 'Washington's broken. John McCain knows it,' a narrator says in the new ad. 'We're worse off than we were...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
called on the United States to end its dependence on oil from the
Middle East and Venezuela within 10 years as part of a broad speech
laying out his energy plans on Monday. Obama, who celebrated
his 47th birthday Monday, said he would direct the 'full resources' of
government towards...
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Senator John McCain, 71, heads to the unlikely
town of Sturgis, South Dakota, on Monday to rub elbows with the rowdy
tattooed rebels of the American roads at a campground rock concert.
With a population of 780,000, South Dakota on the Great Plains is
hardly an election-day prize for either McCain's Republican Party or
rival...
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Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
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Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
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Republican presidential contender John McCain, who was diagnosed and treated for skin cancer in the past, had a small patch of skin removed from his face and was biopsied, as part of a regular health check with his dermatologist. Due to the fact that he is a skin cancer survivor he gets an exam every three to four monthsThe biopsy from a...
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Home from a week-long trip to Europe and the
Middle East, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama turned his
attention back to the struggling US economy and met Monday with a
collection of top economic officials. Republican rival John
McCain spoke of his own plans to combat surging energy prices at a
townhall meeting...
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Democrats took another healing step on
Thursday when former president Bill Clinton said he planned to campaign
for Barack Obama whenever, wherever he was needed, according to
broadcast footage of his remarks. During the heated bid for
the party's presidential nomination, Bill drew attention for his
emotional, sometimes scolding,...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama
on Tuesday said the United States must broaden its foreign policy focus
beyond Iraq, as he pledged to end the war and focus on fighting al-
Qaeda in Afghanistan, while Republican John McCain put forward his
strategy for addressing ongoing violence there.
In a speech on foreign policy in...
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Barack Obama Wednesday charged that the Bush
administration has failed to confront the threat of nuclear terrorism
and vowed that if elected president, he would lead the effort to corral
errant nuclear materials and stay one step ahead of biological and
cyber threats. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for
president, aimed...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama
on Tuesday said the United States must broaden its foreign policy focus
beyond Iraq, as he pledged to end the war and focus on fighting al-
Qaeda in Afghanistan, while Republican John McCain put forward his
strategy for addressing ongoing violence there.
In a speech on foreign policy in...
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US President George W Bush on Monday lifted a ban on offshore oil drilling in an effort to relax record high gasoline prices.
But exploration and drilling cannot proceed until Congress repeals
legislation that prohibits offshore production because of the risk of
oil spills and other environmental hazards. The Democratic majority...
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A nationwide alliance of immigrant rights and
community organizations on Thursday launched a new movement aimed at
registering more than one million Latino and Asian voters ahead of
November's presidential elections. The movement, called the
We Are America Alliance (WAAA), will reach out to voters in 13 states,
which also have the...
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The US Senate on Wednesday passed a long-
awaited bill that places fresh restrictions on a government
eavesdropping programme which has been significantly expanded after the
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The legislation, thrashed out between Republicans, Democrats and the
White House after a year of wrangling, allows the...
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 The Senate gave its final consent on Wednesday regarding a
very significant development in what concerns the government’s surveillance
control, offering President George W. Bush another success in a series of harsh
and effortful conflicts with Democrats over national security matters.
The decision was taken by a vote of 69 to 28...
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday took exception to the comments of retired general Wesley Clark, who suggested that McCain's long record of military service did not qualify him to be president.McCain, regarded as a war hero after being held captive and tortured for five years in Vietnam, called the remarks...
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The United States Senate has approved on Thursday
supplementary financial support of $161.8 billion for procedures in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Senate's 92-6 vote represented a success for President
George W. Bush, who has strongly contested any move made by the Congress in
order to inflict schedules for ending the Iraq...
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Charlie Black, the top adviser to Republican presidential
candidate John McCain, apologized on Monday for declaring that another
terrorist attack targeting the U.S. would be beneficial to McCain. The statement
was made in an interview with Fortune magazine, where Black admitted that such
an attack “would be a big advantage to...
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 The Mississippi River’s flooding waters passed levees and swamped nearly two dozen of them along the waterway, deluging dozens of small towns in Iowa and the neighboring states of Illinois and Missouri, on Thursday.
The floods have also destroyed thousands of hectares of agricultural crops, including corn and wheat. More than two...
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 Former US President Bill Clinton held a 35-minute
speech Thursday at Butler Traditional
High School in Louisville,
in which he discussed about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s position if she
became the next US
President. Another point of the speech was to advise people to ignore the
media and the ones who sustain that Hillary would...
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 Sen. John McCain said Thursday that most American troops
would be home from Iraq
by 2013 and that Osama bin Laden would be captured.
“By January 2013, America
has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly
so that America
might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won,” Mc Cain told...
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 Veterans are not surprised to find that George W. Bush and
John McCain oppose Senator Jim Webb’s new G.I. Bill. G.I. Bill S22. The
Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, authored by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va,
will increase founding for educational aid received by veterans, but it will
revise the allocation methods. The bill would...
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 Republican John McCain plans to change the way people get
their health insurance. He suggested people should choose from competing
policies the type of insurance which is best for them instead of getting the
insurance chosen by the employer. He rejected a "big government"
takeover of the health care system and he said he...
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 John McCain had canceled his arrival to “Late Show with David Letterman” because the senator had to go back to Washington to take part in the congressional efforts to make up an emergency bailout package to help the financial industry. Because of this, McCain had to suspend his presidential campaign too. But he appeared on the show and...
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 John McCain, the Republican U.S. presidential nominee, finally made some time to come to David Letterman’s show. Between his campaign and his fight against the Democratic Party, the Arizona senator decided to show up on Thursday at CBS “Late Show” three weeks after he rescheduled his live appearance.At the time, the senator said that he...
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 Another battlefield for senators John McCain and Barack Obama is now represented by the health insurances. Since they got more expensive and many don’t have the money to pay them, the two candidates for the United States President have built two plans to reduce the ranks of the uninsured. An analysis predicted that McCain’s plan would...
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In a statement he made Thursday, Barack Obama's doctor said the
presidential candidate had a good health condition when he last checked the
politician sixteen months ago. Given the senator’s excellent state, the doctor said the only things that might have bad effects on his health were his family history of cancer and his vice of...
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The argument between Republicans and
Democrats concerning the healthcare system goes on in the U.S.
While representatives of the Democratic
Party Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama plead for an universal health care for
all Americans, Republican John McCain alleges that a switch from an insurance
coverage undertaken by employers to...
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 Boeing Corporation is likely to file a protest against the Republican presidential candidate John McCain over the loss of the 40 billion dollars US Air Force tanker contract in favour of a joint venture of rivals Northrop Grumman and Airbus.Boeing supporters in the Congress said that McCain, the Arizona senator and nominee in waiting,...
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The scramble for the White House was dead even between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, according to two separate polls released late Sunday, the eve of the opening of the Democratic nominating convention.
The Gallup Poll showed each candidate with 45 per cent support from registered voters, while a CNN/Opinion...
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 A report released on Thursday by the inspector general of
the State Department informed that employees may have unacceptably previewed
the electronic passport records of well-off people and celebrities far more
often than formerly supposed. One celebrity's files were violated more than 350
times by approximately six dozen...
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 Maria Shriver, wife of the
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and member of the Kennedy family,
endorsed on Sunday Illinois Senator Barack Obama for US president, in a rally
that took place in the Pauley Pavilion at the University of California, Los
Angeles. Her decision comes a few days after her husband,...
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