Washington, Jan. 22 : The White House press office under the Obama administration has got off to a slow start.

According to Fox News, the phones are not working and the names of the staff have been misspelled on their office doors and desks.

The state if disorderliness is such that it includes mounds of paperwork and general confusion.

New Delhi - As United States President Barack Obama made front-page headlines in Indian newspapers for the second day Thursday, the government expressed hope that India-US relations would be further strengthened under the new leadership.

Washington, Jan 22 : A new study seems to have confirmed the link between social exclusion and aggression by showing that people who feel socially rejected are more likely to see others'' actions as hostile.

What''s more, they are more likely to behave in hurtful ways towards individuals they''ve never even met.

Washington, Jan. 22 : 1.8 million people attended President Barack Obama's inauguration as America's head of state, an official estimate has revealed.

According to the Washington Post, D. C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty''s office cited the 1.8 million figure, which eclipses the 1.2 million official tally from the 1965 inauguration of Lyndon Johnson.

Washington, Jan. 22 : Moving quickly to undo the Bush administration''s regime of secrecy, President Obama on Wednesday repealed a 2001 executive order granting former presidents, and even vice presidents, the ability to keep documents secret long past the 12 years allowed by law.

It was one of Obama''s first official acts, and was hailed as a rebuke of the past eight years.

In announcing the order, Obama said it will even tie his own hands.

Washington, Jan. 22 : President Barack Obama on Thursday will order the closure of so-called black sites, where CIA and European security services have interrogated terrorist suspects.

Executive orders dismantling much of the Bush administration''s architecture for the war on terror, says Obama will shutter "all permanent detention facilities overseas."

According to the four individuals involved with the process, the orders have not yet been signed.