London, July 26 : Should Barack Obama become the 44th President of the United States in January 2009, he can look forward that having some members of his family from Britain visiting him at the White House.

One of them could be 37-year-old Bernard Obama, his stepbrother, who lives in a Bracknell council house.

"I''m very proud of my big brother. It''s quite a funny feeling that he might be the next President of the USA," The Sun quoted Bernard, as saying.

An avid Manchester United fan and Sun reader, Bernard stays with his bingo-loving mum Kezia, 67, who has lived in the Berkshire new town for six years.

New York, July 26 : Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama wrote a prayer in Jerusalem this week - and left it at Judaism''s holiest of sites, the Western Wall. As Barack placed his prayer in the cracks of the Western Wall, someone came from behind and stole it.

That pilfered prayer has now been published in an Israeli newspaper, exposing to the world a personal plea for God to help him "guard against pride and despair."

Obama left the handwritten note during his trip to the 2,000-year-old solemn site in Jerusalem on Thursday, following a tradition of visitors to the wall leaving messages of prayer in its cracks.

London - US presidential contender Barack Obama was holding talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Middle East Quartet representative Tony Blair in London Saturday on the final stage of a trip aimed at enhancing his foreign affairs image.

The Democratic Party Illinois Senator Friday had talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. The tour had earlier included visits to Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and Berlin.

Washington, July 26: Republican presidential hopeful Senator John McCain has accused his rival Democrat Senator Barack Obama of failing the Commander-in-Chief test on Iraq.

Speaking to war veterans in Denver, McCain criticised Obama for opposing President George W Bush’s troop surge in Iraq - one of the few issues where the GOP has gotten traction against Obama during his tour of Europe and US war zones.

Paris - As he prepared to meet with US presidential candidate Barack Obama later Friday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a French newspaper that the Illinois senator was his "buddy."

"Obama? That's my buddy," Sarkozy was quoted as saying in Friday's edition of Le Figaro. "Contrary to my diplomatic advisors, I never thought Hillary Clinton had a chance. I always said Obama would be chosen" as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

Berlin - Barack Obama's call for a renewed transatlantic partnership drew a positive response from German politicians Friday, as the Democrat senator prepared to travel on to France on the next leg of his foreign tour.

Eckart von Klaeden, foreign policy spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian CDU/CSU, said the speech had been in the best tradition of US foreign policy.

Speaking to German media, Von Klaeden said the speech could as well have been made by Obama's rival for the US presidency, Republican Senator John McCain.