London, Nov 13 : Politicians who run for Prime Minister or President must go for an independent health examination and make their medical records public to ensure their ability to govern, a doctor has urged on the online British Medical Journal.

John McCain, the Republican candidate who lost the battle for US Presidency to Barack Obama, did not reveal his malignant melanoma diagnosis, despite happily revealing his medical records from Vietnam.

Paris - Russia will not deploy missiles in its European enclave of Kaliningrad if US president-elect Barack Obama cancels the planned American anti-missile defence system, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published Thursday in the French daily Le Figaro.

"We are prepared to drop our decision to deploy missiles at Kaliningrad if the new American administration decides to abandon its anti-missile system," Medvedev said.

He noted that, based on early reactions, Obama was "thinking about it."

Washington, Nov. 13: U. S. President-elect Barack Obama is planning to appoint Republicans to key positions in his cabinet as part of a new bipartisan approach in Washington.

The Telegraph quoted John Podesta, the head of Obama’s 450-strong transition team as saying that the President-elect wanted to make genuine efforts to reach out across the parties.

Podesta said Republicans and independents would be in Obama''s cabinet and at lower-level jobs at "not just a token level".

Dhabi, Nov. 13, 2008 -- Two major UAE English dailies today commented on the latest development in the tense relations between the United States and Iran on the latter's nuclear programme in the light of the latest IAEA statement that documents alleging that Iran has a nuclear weapons programme may have been fabricated, and the rapprochement step taken by Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to congratulate the US President-elect, Barack Obama, which provided a historic opportunity for improving US-Iran relations.

London, November 13: U. S. President-elect Barack Obama has inspired a new online video game.

The game, which sees Obama running round a world modelled on Nintendo''s Super Mario World, takes a satirical look at US politics.

It shows Obama collecting flags and dodging lipstick-wearing pit bulls, lobbyists, and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

The developers of the game, which is free to play online, are planning to add further episodes throughout Obama''s presidency, reports the BBC.