United States President Barack Obama on Thursday announced to nominate senior American diplomat Derek J Mitchell as his new Ambassador to Myanmar.
United States President Barack Obama has authorised "targeted air strikes" against Islamic militants to protect American military personnel and airdrops of meals and water to thousands of religious minorities trapped on a mountaintop in northwest Iraq.
President Barack Obama has taken a swipe at presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's plans to ban Muslims from entering America and build walls between the United States and other nations, saying the biggest challenges cannot be solved in isolation.
In less than 12 hours after he officially entered 'Twittersphere', US President Barack Obama's account has attracted 1.46 million followers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India will fulfil all its responsibilities with regard to climate change.
Sunny, who was born in Michigan in June 2012, is a Portuguese water dog just like Bo and works great for the Obamas because of allergies in their family.
United States President Barack Obama on Thursday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to shake up the "bureaucratic inertia" in India, less than a month after he described the Indian leader as a "man of action".
President Barack Obama has said the US has "risen from recession" and has got better prospects of economic growth.
Several people have called for First Lady Michelle Obama to run for president in 2020.
An unprecedented security arrangement, comprising Delhi Police and paramilitary forces, has been put in place in the national capital ahead of the arrival of the US President Barack Obama, who is on a three-day visit beginning on Sunday.
United States President Barack Obama has nominated an IIT alumni to his advisory commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
The joint radio address of PM Modi and Obama will be broadcast at 8 pm on Tuesday.
Obama repeatedly told the crowd to "hold up" as Hillary Clinton's supporters started booing a man who stood up with the sign supporting the Republican presidential nominee.
The highest ranking Indian-American in the Obama Administration, Raj Shah on Wednesday announced to step down as administrator of the US Agency for International Development in mid-February next year after receiving high-praise from the President.
US President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when the two met on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Myanmar in November 2014, how he barely had two years left to his presidential term and so much to do. The wish list included getting his daughters to see a tiger in the wild and the Taj Mahal.
Barack Obama's mother was a truly unusual person, a woman with a curiosity, a keen intellect, and an internationalist orientation much ahead of her times, says B S Prakash after reading A Singular Woman
Ever since he ran for the Senate in 2004, Barack Obama has had a wealth of 10-figure tycoons advising--and funding--him.
Bill Richardson who was picked up by the US President-elect, Barack Obama, as his commerce secretary said he is withdrawing because of the unanswered questions about a federal grand jury investigation in New Mexico State, of which he is the Governor.
It is said that there are at least seven people in the world with a similar face. And it seems to be holding true. And in the case of United States President Barack Obama, three have been found.
US President Barack Obama may call the British Prime Minister his 'bro' but follows the wrong David Cameron, a computer game lover, on Twitter.
United States President Barack Obama on Thursday rebuked a reporter from a major news outlet who asked a question about American citizens languishing in Iranian jails at a time when he led a successful negotiations with Iran on the nuclear deal.
Rediff.com presents a collection of photographs to show how people rejoiced Obama's victory across the world.
Republican leader Bobby Jindal has said that Barack Obama is unfit to be commander-in-chief, as he slammed the US President for repeatedly refusing to commit resources needed to defeat radical Islamic terrorists.
Puns flew high as President Obama cracked what he referred to as his "corny-copia of dad jokes about turkeys."
That US is losing one of its best-read presidents, and will gain one of the least likely to have ever read a book. Does that matter? Mihir S Sharma explains why it should.
Here's what Phas Gaye Re Obama is all about.
Russia stands accused by the US of hacking the emails of the Democratic Party and a key Hillary Clinton aide, which the Kremlin strongly denies.
Describing the gatecrashing by a socialite couple into his first state dinner as a 'screwup', an angry US President Barack Obama has vowed that no more uninvited guests will be getting into the White House.
Claiming that the US economy is getting stronger, President Barack Obama, has said it is time that businesses move back their manufacturing from China, as he hit's the campaign trail this week.
We recollect some moments of the US President's stay in India, the longest ever in a foreign country ever since he took over the top post.
'He is not as starry eyed about India as George Bush was. But within some limits he would like to do good to India,' says political thinker Ashis Nandy.
Sonia Gandhi,Manmohan Singh and party leaders met Obama.
'I told President Obama, "Mr President, do you realise that the person who is likely to become the prime minister of India in two weeks, does not have a visa, and you are talking about having great relations between India and the USA, how are you going to do it?".'' 'His answer was that this is not right and that he'll have somebody from the White House and the State Department reach out to me.'
US President Barack Obama early this morning signed a bill into law to end a disruptive 16-day government shutdown and increase the current debt ceiling of $16.7 trillion to prevent the country from a debt default with potentially worldwide economic repercussions.
Addressing world leaders at the 68th session of the UN General Assembly, Obama said if the international community cannot be united against forcing Syria to give up its chemical weapons, "then it will show that the United Nations is incapable of enforcing the most basic of international laws".
"On behalf of the American people, I wish to extend my deepest condolences to the people of India on the passing of former Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam," Obama said in a statement.
However, nothing is definitively known about the motivation behind this mass shooting, he told reporters at the White House on Sunday afternoon.
Obama also renewed his call to for tightening gun control measures.
"At my core I think we're going to be OK," Obama said.
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