Barack Obama has little time to relax after he triumphed over Republican John McCain, and made history as the first African-American elected the US president - he has to grapple with two wars and a deepening financial crisis.
Aides on Capitol Hill and other Democratic insiders said Wednesday that Obama began the transition by asking Illinois congressman, Rahm Emanuel - a former Clinton White House adviser - to be his White House chief of staff.
In a fitting conclusion to a presidential campaign that ignited intense public interest in political debates to primary nights, conventions and even prime time infomericals, President-elect Barack Obama's historic win on Tuesday night saw 71-million television viewers riveted to their TV screens.
According to Nielsen Media Research, compared to 61.6-million people who tuned in for the 2,000 election results, this year's election had nearly a quarter of all television viewers in the US, watching the results come in over 14-networks.
Seeking the overturn of Proposition 8 - which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman - supporters of gay rights filed three lawsuits in the California Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed one suit; the counties of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Clara filed a joint lawsuit; and Civil rights attorney Gloria Allred filed one suit on behalf of lesbian clients married in Los Angeles.
The celebrity couple - Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif - came together for a shoot and gave a 'guarded' interview for DT on the sets of their film, 'Yuvvraaj', directed by Subhash Ghai. Though they did open up their hearts for each other, after going strong for the last four years, is was not typically a romantic, full-throttle down-on-knees confession and proposal that many were waiting for!
Sofia - Bulgaria would consider a pullout of its troops from the international military contingent in Iraq, Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin was quoted as saying Thursday.
"We are analyzing our presence (in Iraq), but believe that our mission is largely accomplished," Kalfin told reporters after a ministerial meeting in Brussels on Wednesday.
Turin, Italy - Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential vote marks a "great step forward for humanity" that could be mirrored with the election of a black pope, according to a top US Roman Catholic cleric.
"If Obama at the White House is like the first time man (stepped on) the moon, then it can certainly happen at the threshold of St Peter's," the Archbishop of Atlanta, Wilton Daniel Gregory, was quoted as saying in an interview published Thursday in an Italian newspaper.
Barack Obama has little time to relax after he triumphed over Republican John McCain, and made history as the first African-American elected the US president - he has to grapple with two wars and a deepening financial crisis.
In a fitting conclusion to a presidential campaign that ignited intense public interest in political debates to primary nights, conventions and even prime time infomericals, President-elect Barack Obama's historic win on Tuesday night saw 71-million television viewers riveted to their TV screens. 
Seeking the overturn of Proposition 8 - which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman - supporters of gay rights filed three lawsuits in the California Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The celebrity couple - Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif - came together for a shoot and gave a 'guarded' interview for DT on the sets of their film, 'Yuvvraaj', directed by Subhash Ghai. Though they did open up their hearts for each other, after going strong for the last four years, is was not typically a romantic, full-throttle down-on-knees confession and proposal that many were waiting for!
Sofia - Bulgaria would consider a pullout of its troops from the international military contingent in Iraq, Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin was quoted as saying Thursday.
Turin, Italy - Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential vote marks a "great step forward for humanity" that could be mirrored with the election of a black pope, according to a top US Roman Catholic cleric.
