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I have had a lifelong interest in the 16th president of the United States. Like Abraham Lincoln, I was born in Kentucky, but I was named for his opponent in the 1860 election.

As the U.S. grapples with its banking crisis, President Barack Obama is pointing to Sweden and Japan as offering lessons for what the United States should -- and shouldn't -- do.

President-elect Barack Obama has begun laying the groundwork for overhauling the troubled U.S. healthcare system, reaching out to interest groups and building grass-roots support for the huge undertaking.

"At this moment, the United States has a unique opportunity to push forward a vision that aligns its own interests and ideals with those of most of the world's major powers. But it is a fleeting opportunity," Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria writes in the December 8 cover, "How to Fix the World" (on newsstands Monday, December 1). 

An Iranian militia held civil defense drills on Sunday to prepare for any air strikes and the military said it could close a waterway crucial for world oil supplies if Iran was attacked.

Here in Nigeria, the unreflective rejection of all possible alternative ideas on how society could be organized, in total preference to the capitalist mode, has given rise to a variety of ways in which people in their survival bid engage the contradictions of capitalism.

Al Qaeda's deputy leader accused Barack Obama of betraying his race and his father's Muslim heritage on Wednesday and urged more attacks, as the group tried to counter the incoming U.S. president's global popularity.

This Sunday, Jim Wallis will rise to speak in a church a few blocks from the White House, and around the corner from Capitol Hill, and tell the gathered congregation about the Great Awakening in the United States this week.

Osama bin Laden is planning an attack against the United States that will "outdo by far" September 11, an Arab newspaper in London has reported.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has "a tremendous opportunity" to help negotiate an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan that could help "empower the forces of ... moderation in the Islamic world," former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday.

Barack Obama has not even been sworn in yet as the 44th president of the United States but groups are springing up online calling for his impeachment.

Reporting from London -- If history records a sudden surge in carbon emissions on Wednesday, it may be due to the collective exhalation of relief and joy by the hundreds of millions -- perhaps billions -- of people around the globe who watched, waited and prayed for Barack Obama to be elected president of the United States.