President Barack Obama will try to revive his stalled national health care plans today by taking the fight to the private insurance companies.

RUSSIAN leader Boris Yeltsin was once found near the White House late at night dressed in his underwear, seemingly drunk and looking for pizza, according to a new book detailing Bill Clinton’s presidency.

PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama’s two daughters have checked into their new school in Washington.

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

Ordinary Americans joined President George Bush and other dignitaries in Washington to pay final respects to Gerald Ford as the former US president’s flag-draped coffin rested under the Capitol dome, before a last round of funeral services and burial near his family home in Michigan.

While US president George Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao hoped their discussions inside the White House would cool tensions over a yawning US-China trade gap, demonstrators massed outside today to protest Beijing’s human rights policies.

Anti-terror police arrested nine more men during dawn raids on two addresses in south London today.