US President-elect Barack Obama highlighted alarming new US unemployment figures to urge the passage of his nearly $800bn (€595bn) economic recovery plan through Congress amid resistance from within his own party.

Elvis Presley fans have flocked to his former Graceland home for a party to celebrate what would have been his 74th birthday, hosted by his ex-wife Priscilla.

US President-elect Barack Obama is to be honoured in the pages of the latest Spider-man comic.

Bruce Springsteen is set to join soul queen Aretha Franklin in welcoming US President-elect Barack Obama to the White House later this month.

Al-Qaida’s number two lashed out at US president-elect Barack Obama in a new audio recording, blaming him for doing nothing to stop Israel’s offensive in Gaza, according to an intelligence monitoring centre.

US president-elect Barack Obama signalled a clean break from Bush administration policies with surprising appointments for the top intelligence jobs, according to Democrat sources.

US President-elect Barack Obama landed in the Washington area today, setting up the final march toward his January 20 inauguration.

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson today announced he is withdrawing his nomination to be US President-elect Barack Obama’s commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation.

US president-elect Barack Obama visited US military families while they ate Christmas dinner, thanking them for their service and posing for pictures.

Kanye West has offered to design an outfit for US President-elect Barack Obama.

Rihanna is set to perform on US President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration night in aid of a hunger-relief charity.

Eva Mendes' celebrity status can't buy her everything - she's been turned down for a ticket to US president-elect Barack Obama's inauguration into the White House.

The fraud investigation of fallen US financier Bernard Madoff took an unusual twist as the US attorney general removed himself from the criminal probe.

Robert De Niro was so overjoyed with US president-elect Barack Obama's historic election win in November, he was moved to tears.

Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx thinks he’s come up with the perfect solution for US president-elect Barack Obama and his family’s quest for a puppy when they move to the White House.

US president-elect Barack Obama said that his country's economy will get worse before it gets better, pledged a recovery plan “equal to the task” and warned politicians that the days of spending on pet projects are over.

US president-elect Barack Obama said the US economy would get worse before it gets better today as new figures showed the nation suffered its worst month of job losses in 34 years in November.

Jennnifer Aniston was astonished when her "uncool" comments about former love rival Angelina Jolie kicked US President-elect Barack Obama off the front pages of America's newspapers.

Top executives of the big three American carmakers will ask the US Congress for more than $34bn (€26.1bn) in loans today as two of them battle to survive beyond the end of the month.

The Iraqi government says US President-elect Barack Obama has called Iraq’s prime minister and stressed his commitment to a responsible withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.

US president-elect Barack Obama plans to name seasoned advisers and political foes alike as his picks for top administration jobs today, including one-time political nemesis Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.

US President-elect Barack Obama denied today he was bringing too many Washington insiders of the Clinton era into his administration.

US president-elect Barack Obama will come to London in April for a crunch G20 summit, it was revealed today.

US President-elect Barack Obama sought to bring some relief to Americans anxious about their economic futures, outlining a plan to create 2.5 million jobs with public works programmes that will rebuild roads and bridges, modernise schools and create alternative energy sources.

US President George Bush, faced with a dwindling number of days in office, was using his final world summit to try to keep a virulent economic crisis from triggering a retreat into protectionism.

CHINA has accelerated computer espionage attacks on the US government, defence contractors and American businesses, a US congressional advisory panel said yesterday.

US President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started selecting his inner circle by appointing existing Washington insiders to top posts.

US President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly picked a former high-ranking Clinton administration aide to serve as the next attorney general, the country’s top law enforcement official

Taoiseach Brian Cowen tonight spoke for the first time to US President-elect Barack Obama.

US president-elect Barack Obama wants changes in how some of the nation’s biggest economic problems are handled, from helping the troubled car industry to aiding homeowners fighting repossession, he will say today.

US President-elect Barack Obama today urged Congress to get moving on an economic rescue plan that would extend jobless benefits among other actions.

US president-elect Barack Obama interviewed primary election rivals Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson to be his secretary of state, Democrats said, as he considered folding former foes into his new administration.

US president-elect Barack Obama’s former rival Hillary Clinton is being considered as a possible secretary of state in his administration, according to US reports today.

US President-elect Barack Obama has cast doubt on reports his daughters are set to star in Miley Cyrus' hit TV show 'Hannah Montana'.

Lindsay Lohan referred to US President-elect Barack Obama as the country’s “first coloured president”, using the outdated term in a TV interview.

Lindsay Lohan referred to US President-elect Barack Obama as the country’s “first coloured president”, using the outdated and derogatory term in a TV interview.

US president-elect Barack Obama has made helping the troubled US car industry a “high priority” of his administration.

New Zealand today elected its first conservative government in almost a decade, ending the rule of one of the world’s longest-serving elected women.

Burma’s military leader has sent US President-elect Barack Obama a congratulatory message on his election victory.

General Motors, the largest US car manufacturer, warned today that it may run out of money by the end of the year after piling up billions in third-quarter losses and burning through cash at an alarming rate. Ford sustained heavy losses, too.

US President-elect Barack Obama called the late President Ronald Reagan’s widow, Nancy Reagan, to apologise for joking that she had held seances in the White House.

Pop star Katy Perry opened the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) in all-American style tonight riding atop a giant cherry chapstick.

US president-elect Barack Obama went straight to work today appointing his new government and studying some of the problems he will inherit when he takes office in 10 weeks.

A US federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee, has indicted two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill US President-elect Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.