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Karzai named winner as run-off is cancelled

02.11.09
Hamid Karzai was declared Afghanistan's elected president after officials cancelled the second round election run-off... more

Limbaugh defiant over photo-op jibe

02.11.09
Radio show host Rush Limbaugh is refusing to apologise after claiming President Obama only attended the return of servicemen killed in Afghanistan as a "photo-op"... more

Learn from Obama - the one politico we really trust

13.05.09
A plague on all their houses, cry the voters, contemplating the wreckage of MPs' dignity as the wretches scrabble to atone for their pool-cleaning, manure-purchasing, creative-accounting ways... more

Brown wants party to take a leaf out of Obama's book

12.03.09
The Labour party's traditional "command and control" structure could be torn up and replaced with a grass roots movement based on Barack Obama's presidential campaign... more

Higher taxes on rich and war bill cut in Obama's first budget which will be 'sober and honest'

23.02.09
President Obama is preparing to unveil his first budget this week as he seeks to put the American economy back on track with a $787million stimulus package... more

Obama plays down hopes of instant fix

16.02.09
Economics: President Obama has begun dampening expectations for his $787 billion stimulus package with aides warning not to expect instant miracles... more

Barack Obama: President of cool

20.01.09
Poised and unflappable, Barack Obama has fast-tracked from also-ran to America’s top job in just seven years. Andrew Gilligan asks: how did he do it?... more

Michelle O: the US 'mom in chief' who gets the last word

19.01.09
Michelle Obama boarded the presidential train in Philadelphia at the weekend as a political wife and mother - and arrives in Washington as the new First Lady... more

Obama stays silent over Tel Aviv's actions

29.12.08
Barack Obama's transition team was choosing its words carefully in dealing with the crisis in Gaza... more

Tribune's collapse rings alarm bells for newspaper industry

10.12.08
Media analysis: Sam Zell is hugely wealthy. Yet it proved beyond his fiscal talents to save US media conglomerate the Tribune Company from financial collapse... more

US economic recovery plan 'could cost $700bn'

24.11.08
Barack Obama has vowed to do "whatever it takes" to fix the US economy as crisis continued to grip the country... more

Obama lines up new team to resurrect US economy

07.11.08
Barack Obama was gathering together his economic advisers before addressing America about the greatest financial threat since the Thirties... more

The president’s key men and women wait for call to office

05.11.08
Barack Obama lost no time in planning the key appointments that will shape his presidency... more

Will Hillary rain on Obama's parade?

18.08.08
The story I'd been hearing for some time has finally come out in the open: Hillary Clinton, Bill, and many of her major financial supporters, known as "bundlers", are so livid at what they see as underhanded play by the Obama team that they intend to eviscerate what ought to be Obama's coronation at the Democratic Party Convention in Denver this week... more

Radiohead lead the pack as Mercury Music Prize nominations announced

22.07.08
Radiohead, Estelle, Last Shadow Puppets and Adele were today all nominated for this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize. Also up for the gong are Elbow, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and Neon Neon.... more

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