Washington, April 11: Barack Obama may finally receive Arizona State University’s honorary degree after the institution’s president hinted that they were reconsidering their honour plans for the US President.

The school had drawn many frowns after deciding against conferring the honour upon Obama, saying his “body of work is yet to come”.

Washington - President Barack Obama on Friday pointed to some signs of progress for the US economy, which is going through one of its longest and deepest recessions since the Great Depression. "What you are starting to see is glimmers of hope across the economy," Obama said after a meeting at the White House with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other economic advisors.

Washington - US President Barack Obama on Thursday asked Congress to authorize 83.4 billion dollars in additional funding for themilitary missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a letter to Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, he said that nearly 95 per cent of the military request for the current fiscal year, which ends September 30, would go toward military operations in either Iraq or the conflict in Afghanistan, which has increasingly spilled into neighbouring Pakistan.

Los Angeles - Hoping to cash in on the worldwide interest in US President Barack Obama, Sony Pictures has snapped up the international distribution rights to a documentary on the ground- breaking politician. The film follows Obama as he went from a little-known politician to victory in the presidential elections and his inauguration as the country's first African-American president.

The movie, By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, was made by actor Edward Norton's Class 5 Films and enjoyed exclusive access to the politician on the campaign trail.

New York, April 10: Sony Pictures and the HBO have planned a documentary on Barack Obama’s historic election as the first African-American President.

Sony is said to have acquired the rights to distribute the documentary ‘By the People: The Election of Barack Obama’.

Two media giants have revealed that the documentary will not be just a collage of biographical and campaign video.

They say that it will include interviews with staffers and campaign aides to give us a behind-the-scenes look at life in Obamaland.

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