Washington, Apr. 28 : President Barack Obama has apparently had a full schedule in the week gone by at the Oval Office.

If last Monday, golf great Tiger Woods dropped by the Oval Office to promote June's AT and T National, Tuesday brought country singer Toby Keith. On Wednesday, while Barack Obama was in Iowa, R and B singer Usher swung by the premises to talk with administration staff about fighting malaria. Thursday was quieter - maybe just the lull before actor Forest Whitaker's visit Friday.

Washington, April 28 : Mia Farrow thinks that U. S. president Barack Obama has not done enough for the people of Darfur.

Farrow, who started her three-week hunger strike on Monday to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, says Obama has not kept the promises he made during the elections.

"During the campaign trail both he (Obama) and Biden made a lot of promises to help the region of Darfur, and nobody voted for him more excitedly than I but nothing has been done," Fox News quoted her as saying.

New York, Apr. 28 : The latest New York Times/ CBS News poll claims that the Barack Obama presidency is seeking to alter the public perception of race relations in the United States.

According to the poll, three out of five Americans now say race relations are generally good, and the percentage of blacks who say so has doubled since last July.

Washington - President Barack Obama said he was closely watching an outbreak of swine flu in the United States, where 20 cases have so far been identified, but urged people to remain calm.

"This is obviously a cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert, but it's not a cause for alarm," Obama said in a speech at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington.

Washington, Apr. 27: According to alarming reports from Mexico City, Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who showed Obama around the city''s anthropology museum during his visit to Mexico earlier this month, died the next day from "flu-like symptoms".

According to The Independent, Solis met the President at a gala dinner which was held at the museum on April 16, before Obama travelled onto the Americas summit in Trinidad and Tobago.

Washington, Apr. 27 : US President Barack Obama has emerged more popular than any of his recent predecessors in his first 100 days in office, according to opinion polls.

Barack Obama currently has a 63 per cent job approval rating, reports The Telegraph.