Washington: After Congress gave final approval to the emergency finance rescue package, US President George W Bush popped next door to the pillared Treasury building to shake hands with his treasury secretary Henry Paulson.

In the photo image used on front pages across the US on Saturday, the two men are grinning in obvious relief over the passage that ended a grim two-week-long economic cliffhanger.

The staid treasury building serves as a backdrop in the photos, as it does on all US paper currency.

Washington, Oct 2: US President George W Bush today hailed the Senate's approval of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal and said that it would strengthen global efforts to stall the spread of nuclear weapons.

In a statement Bush said, "This legislation will strengthen our global nuclear nonproliferation efforts, protect the environment, create jobs, and assist India in meeting its growing energy needs in a responsible manner."

He also said that he was looking forward to sign the bill into law and continue to strengthen the US-India strategic partnership.

New York, Sept 27: Going by party lines, Republican Party’s presidential candidate John McCain should be strictly following his partyman and US President George Bush’s policy of attacking Pakistan to root out terrorism, but during the first presidential debate it was Democrat Barack Obama who appeared to toe Bush’s policy.

Washington, Sept. 25: U. S. President George W. Bush appealed to the nation Wednesday night to support a 700 billion dollar plan to avert a financial meltdown on Wall Street.

He also invited both major presidential candidates – John McCain and Barack Obama to join him and Congressional leaders at the White House on Thursday to forge a bipartisan compromise.

Washington  - Amidst growing resistance in Congress to a proposed urgent, mammoth bailout plan for Wall Street, US President George W Bush was to speak later Wednesday on the economy, the White House said.

The speech at 9 pm (0100 GMT Thursday) comes after repeated calls from Congress and the public for a more complete explanation of why the White House is so anxious to push through an emergency 700- billion-dollar plan by week's end.

New York  - US President George W Bush, in his final speech before the United Nations on Tuesday, called on the world to unite in the fight against extremism and terrorism.

Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Bush said it is not enough to condemn acts of terrorism that have already occurred, but instead the international community "must continually confront terror."

"Like slavery and piracy, terrorism has no place in the modern world. Around the world nations are changing these words into action," Bush said.