New York, Apr 21 : Getting a pet dog was an easy task for the Obamas, but animal experts have said that puppy-proofing the White House for Bo will be an even bigger task.

Bo the First Dog is six months old, which is equivalent to the human “terrible twos,” and in the canine world it means testing authority, and chewing.

“The hardest thing will be getting [Bo] to understand what''s acceptable and what''s not because he will be constantly distracted,” the New York Daily News quoted Dr. Phillip Raclyn, a veterinarian at the Riverside Animal Hospital in Manhattan, as saying.

Paris - With schools and politicians on Easter holiday, the big news in France these days is what President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly told a group of lawmakers about several Western leaders, as reported by the left-leaning daily Liberation.

Most of the controversy concerns the president's assessment of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero as "not very clever."

Melbourne, Apr 21 : President Obama will appear shirtless on the front cover of a US magazine.

Obama will be seen semi-nude in a bathing suit on the cover of May issue of The Washingtonian magazine.

The monthly style/culture publication uses a paparazzi photograph taken during the president-elect's Christmas vacation in Hawaii last year.

The mag claims Obama is no normal president who''s "really hot", reports The Daily Telegraph.

Washington, Apr. 21: President Obama greeted each member of the White Sox team during their tour of the White House on Monday.

Octavio Dotel, a relief pitcher from the Dominican Republic, asked for -- and received -- a hug instead of a handshake from Obama.

Washington, Apr. 21 : The Obamas are out to make new traditions at the White House, and helping them out this endeavour is their social secretary Desiree Rogers, Valerie Jarrett, a White House senior adviser, and Susan Sher, associate counsel and adviser to US First Lady Michelle Obama.

Since President Obama was sworn in on January 20 this year, the social office at the White House has run more than 60 events, with the Easter Egg Roll last week the most recent, a tradition on the South Lawn since 1878.

Washington, Apr 20 : President Barack Obama has said that it was a nice gesture on the part of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to gift him a book during the weekend Summit of the Americas.

Obama, however, said nothing about the theme of the book, "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," by Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano, which blames foreign interests like the United States for exploiting Latin America for centuries.