Barack Obama

Obama''s popularity soars to an all time high

Obama''s popularity soars to an all time highNew York, Mar 5 : Despite the ongoing global economic crisis, Americans seem to have full faith in their newly elected President, Barack Obama.

Obama now has a 60 per cent approval rating by the people of US, who feel that things are looking up since he took office, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

Most Americans still back Obama''s expansive economic stimulus program, the poll found.

Obama is going gray, 44 days after assuming US presidency

Obama is going gray, 44 days after assuming US presidencyWashington, Mar. 5 : President Barack Obama is going gray, 44 days after assuming office as the 44th President of the United States.

It happens to all of them. Bill Clinton still had about half a head of brown hair when he took office but was a silver fox two years later, and George W. Bush went from salt and pepper to just salt in what seemed like a blink of an eye, reports the New York Times.

Obama wore a stylish bulletproof suit for oath taking ceremony

Obama wore a stylish bulletproof suit for oath taking ceremonySydney, Mar 5: Barack Obama was wearing a stylish bulletproof suit when he took oath as the 44th President of the United States.

Speaking in front of thousands, the new President of the world’s most powerful nation was safer than people realized, according to US media sources.

Miguel Caballero, the famed Bulletproof Tailor of Bogota and the only company in the world to make them, has for years been designing high-end armoured fashion ware for the world’s elite.

Obama promises to cut "wasteful spending" across government

Obama promises to cut "wasteful spending" across government Washington - President Barack Obama promised to cut waste across all government agencies, announcing a review Wednesday of the administration's methods for awarding contracts.

With an economic crisis that has forced the government to run up a massive budget deficit, Obama said he could cut billions of dollars of spending in the Defence Department and other agencies by reducing cost overruns, ending needless projects and limiting the use of private contractors.

Brown’s messiah moment with Obama buried under heap of snow in DC!

Brown’s messiah moment with Obama buried under heap of snow in DC!Washington, Mar. 4 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown''s expected `Messiah' moment with US President Barack Obama appeared to buried under snow here on Tuesday.

No sooner had his plane touched down at Andrews Air Force on Monday evening when word was passed to travelling Westminster correspondents that the press conference they''d been told to expect had been called off "because of snow".

Brown and Obama had their working lunch in the Old Family Dining Room, but the exact timing of it was vague.

Critics urge Obama to turn down Boy Scout’s honorary presidency

Washington, Mar. 4 : Charging the `Boy Scouts of America' with discrimination, critics have urged President Barack Obama to reject the title of honorary president of the Scouts.

President Obama, however, says that he wants to be president of all people.

Outraged that the group is allowed to exclude gays and atheists while receiving federal funding, critics now want Obama to turn down the honorary presidency, a designation bestowed on every US president since William Howard Taft in 1910.

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