Washington, January 10 : An Internet threat to kill U. S. President-elect Barack Obama has led to the arrest on a Southern Californian man.

Walter Edward Bagdasarian, 47, has been charged with expressing displeasure over Barack Obama''s candidacy, and predicting that "he will have a 50 cal in the head soon," in a racist note posted to a Yahoo message board in October.

Court records reveal that Secret Service agents, upon raiding Bagdasarian's La Mesa home in November, found an arsenal of six weapons.

The documents further reveal that Bagdasarian had three handguns and three rifles, including a 30.06 with a telescopic sight and a Remington .50 caliber muzzle-loading rifle.

London, January 10 : If U. S. President-elect Barack Obama has his way, his inauguration on January 20 will mark a night when America will be classless society, as he wants it to be a "Neighbourhood Ball" which will be attended not only by the elite but also by people from poor and black parts of Washington.

Obama has expressed his desire to give away some of the tickets for free and some for as little as 25 dollars, compared to the average 250 dollars for more exclusive affairs.

Washington, Jan. 10: US President-elect Barack Obama may have picked Dr. sanjay Gupta as his surgeon general, but the world at large, is still pretty much clueless about his credentials, despite the 39-year-old nureosurgeon publishing articles in medical journals, appearing for CNN on TV, offering medical advice through his columns for Time magazine and being the author of the 2007 best-seller on healthy living, "Chasing Life."

According to Politico, those who know and have worked with Gupta, say he is predisposed to avoiding controversy thanks partly to his embrace of journalistic objectivity in his public life, but also because he is dispassionate and non-ideological by nature.

Los Angeles  - President-elect Barack Obama is getting some help from a superhero as he prepares to take charge of the United States in a time of crisis.

Obama will appear in a special inauguration issue of the Spider- Man comic book, in which the superhero will save the day when an imposter tries to snatch the reins of power at the swearing-in ceremony of the president.

The special issue will hit news-stands on Wednesday, just six days before Obama's inauguration, and is likely to immediately become a collectors' item.

Washington  - US president-elect Barack Obama named former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the CIA and nominated a retired Navy admiral to oversee the entire intelligence community.

Dennis Blair, the chief of US Pacific Command from 1999 to 2002, will become the director of national intelligence, a so-called czar for coordinating the espionage activities and analyses of the nation's 16 intelligence organizations.

Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama named former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the CIA and nominated a retired Navy admiral to oversee the entire intelligence community.

Dennis Blair, the chief of US Pacific Command from 1999 to 2002, will become the director of national intelligence, a so-called czar for coordinating the espionage activities and analyses of the nation's 16 intelligence organizations.