Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he was paying tribute to Barack Obama by using elements of the US president’s famous victory speech in his College Green address.

The Government has denied Taoiseach Enda Kenny plagiarised elements of Barack Obama’s famous victory speech as he introduced the US president to tens of thousands of people in Dublin.

A YEAR ago tonight Chicago’s Grant Park was the place to be. Barack Obama had defied history, racial prejudice, America’s Grand Old Party and, not least of all, the Clintons, to be elected President of America.

I REALLY should have begun this letter with Dear Barack. I feel I can call you by your first name because I have known you quite intimately for so long. I have known you all your life.

Madonna celebrated Barack Obama’s victory tonight with a glittering rally of her own, leading thousands of fans at her concert in San Diego with a rousing introduction to her song 'Express Yourself'.

They danced in the streets, wept, lifted their voices in prayer and brought traffic to a standstill.

State by state, vote by vote, history was made today.

Forty-seven-year-old Illinois senator Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20 next year.

Tens of thousands of Barack Obama’s supporters in the senator’s home town of Chicago gathered for a huge election-night rally to mark a historic victory celebration.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has won the states of Georgia and West Virginia, leaving him with 78 electoral votes compared with Mr Obama's 199.

A POLITICAL battle built on an orgy of hyperbole ended yesterday in the quiet fulfillment of citizens’ civic duty.

ELECTION Day is less than two weeks away, and Chicago could be home to the biggest political party in the country.