BARACK OBAMA

U.S. President Barack Obama's push for healthcare reform gathered steam on Thursday as a Senate panel scheduled a key vote for next week and Democrats in the House of Representatives moved closer to unveiling a bill.

The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan has recommended an increase of 40,000 troops as the minimum necessary to prevail, two sources familiar with his recommendations said on Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had constructive talks Friday with U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy George Mitchell on advancing the Middle East peace process, his office said.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday that the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded to U.S. President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.

A surprised world greeted the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama with a mixture of praise and skepticism on Friday.

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to U.S. President Barack Obama had many puzzled Americans scratching their heads.

U.S. President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday.

U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world hope for a better future and striving for nuclear disarmament.

If George W. Bush was the Decider who relied mostly on gut instinct as U.S. president, Barack Obama has shown himself to be the Deliberator.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has recommended an increase of 40,000 U.S. troops as the minimum necessary to prevail, two sources familiar with his recommendations said on Thursday.

President Barack Obama's push for healthcare reform gathered steam on Thursday as a Senate panel scheduled a key vote and Democrats in the House of Representatives moved closer to hatching a bill.

Ben's Chili Bowl Restaurant, a famous diner in Washington for politicians and celebrities, has lost its founder Ben Ali who died Wednesday of natural causes, the restaurant said on its website.

Envoys for Honduras' de facto leaders and ousted President Manuel Zelaya resumed talks on Thursday to end a post-coup crisis, but were far from agreement on the key issue of returning the leftist to power.

Credit card issuers' recent actions prove that lawmakers should move up the effective date of new restrictions on card interest rates and fees, U.S. Representative Barney Frank said on Thursday.

The chief executives of Amazon.com Inc, FPL Group, Eastman Kodak and Kraft Foods are among business leaders attending a lunch meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday, the White House said.

Shares of health insurers slumped on Thursday as analysts said a report issued on a key U.S. Senate healthcare reform bill should give the legislation a boost.

U.S. President Barack Obama's special peace envoy sought on Thursday an early relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian talks, but Israel said Washington's goal of comprehensive peace was an illusion.

A large bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy in central Kabul on Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding 76, in the latest of a series of militant attacks on diplomatic and government buildings in the capital.

President Barack Obama met on Wednesday with the two top Democrats in Congress to discuss ways to spur the economy and reverse a climb in the U.S. unemployment rate, which is now at a 26-year-high.

A U.S. Senate Finance Committee health plan would cost $829 billion and cut the budget deficit by $81 billion over 10 years, nonpartisan budget analysts said on Wednesday in a report that could

A request from the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan for additional troops has been transferred to President Barack Obama for review and has started working its way through the military chain of command, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.