Karachi, Nov 17 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the US’ air strikes would be stopped after the new Barack Obama administration assumes office in the White House on January 20.

Being a nuclear power, Pakistan had to react in a “responsible manner” in response to American air strikes inside the country, said Gilani while talking to journalists on Sunday night.

Washington, Nov 17: US President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly said that hw would keep his poll promises of pulling out troops from Iraq, crushing Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay camp.

In his first major post-election radio interview, he signaled no retreat from expansive campaign promises that had pleased US allies, even while adding little detail to how he would fulfill them.

Chicago, Nov. 17: The Obamas’ have said that while they have promised their two daughters a dog as their gift for their father winning the U. S. presidential elections, they will wait to induct the pooch till late winter or early spring.

Chicago, Nov. 17: U. S. President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday resigned as the junior Seantor from Illinois and told his constituency in a thank-you and farewell letter that he was ending one journey to begin another.

Recalling his time in community organizing on Chicago's South Side, his service in the state Senate, he quoted Abraham Lincoln, saying he wanted to take what he learned from the state to use at the White House.

Washington  - In his first interview as president-elect, Barack Obama called for help for the ailing US auto industry and for homeowners facing foreclosure amid the ongoing financial crisis.

Obama appeared on CBS' 60 Minutes news programme on Sunday in a wide-ranging interview that covered everything from terrorist threats to his relationship with his mother-in-law.

Chicago, Nov. 17 : U. S. President-elect Barack Obama said on Sunday that the security of the United States and getting the country’s economy back on track would command his attention on a priority basis once he assumes office on January 20, 2009.