After Saturday's 2-1 win at Chelsea - their 12th in 13 league matches - Aston Villa have claimed 18 points from losing positions so far this season, more than any other team.
US President Barack Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs said on Wednesday that he would step down next month and boost his boss's 2012 re-election bid from outside the White House.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs wags his finger at an Indian official on Monday morning. He later threatened to pull his boss out of the talks!
The announcement in this regard was made by Bill Daley, the new Chief of Staff of President Barack Obama, in an e-mail communication to the White House staff on Thursday evening.
Robert Gibbs, who served as White House press secretary for the first two years of the Obama administration, has formally joined his re-election campaign as a roving surrogate and strategic consultant.
The White House on Wednesday categorically ruled out that the US is planning to leave Afghanistan, as President Barack Obama held the fifth round of the "situation room meeting" to chalk out a strategy for Af-Pak region.
United States President Barack Obama is spending considerable time on America's relationship with India, Afghanistan and Pakistan to strengthen security in the 'important region,' the White House said on Tuesday.
The voluminous classified documents on the Afghan war leaked by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has the potential to put American troops in harm's way, the White House said on Friday.The issue was discussed at the monthly situation room Af-Pak meeting at the White House convened by United States President Barack Obama."We believe that this has the potential to put troops, those that cooperate with our efforts, into harm's way," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.
Amid a series of anti-US rhetorics coming from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the White House showed signs of "frustration" on Monday with regard to this war-torn country, where its forces have been engaged in war against terrorism for the past eight years.
United States President Barack Obama would encourage both the Chinese leadership and the Dalai Lama to continue to talk.
US President Barack Obama will embark on his maiden trip to Asia mid-November when he will travel to China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Japan will be the first stop in his four-nation sojourn beginning November 11.
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs, said US President Barack Obama strongly supports Google which had threatened to shut down operations in China over the issue of censures that 'limit free speech on the Web'.
Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs said he had not seen or witnessed any evidence of his boss smoking in probably nine months.
United States President Barack Obama will visit India in the near future, but not in the next three months, the White House has stated. "I know the President at some point will travel to India," the White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, told reporters at his daily press briefing on Friday. "I do not have anything on the schedule for the next three months," Gibbs said in response to a question. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to visit the United States in Nov.
"Not that I am aware of, no," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told media persons at his daily press briefing when asked if Obama has received the cheque from the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awarded him the coveted peace prize on December 10 last year.
'The major focus will be his message on economics, on increasing exports, supporting jobs back here, and including highlighting some commercial deals that we hope to have consummated by that time.'
Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman was recently the target of an assassination attempt, in which two of his bodyguards were killed.A senior Obama administration official confirmed that the attack happened soon after Suleiman was appointed on January 29. The official described it as an organised attack on Suleiman's motorcade.Suleiman may take over as interim leader of Egypt in some of the proposals reportedly being considered for an expedited political transition.
United States President Barack Obama will "shortly sign" the Kerry-Lugar Bill on civilian and military aid to Islamabad to which Pakistani Army and its opposition parties have expressed reservations.
In the high-pressure cooker that is politics, tempers can be explosive and fuses short. Rediff.com brings you some of the most dramatic political punch-ups and fist fights from across the globe where parliaments turned into boxing rinks.
'We see India as a cornerstone of our engagement with this hugely important region of the world.'
Obama arrives in India on the 6th, spends the 6th and part of the 7th in Mumbai, part of the 7th and the 8th in New Delhi.
Five-time world boxing champion Johnny Tapia was found dead in his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home at the age of 45.
Noting that Iran's statement are often based on politics rather than physics, the White House has said it does not believe in Iranian President Ahmadinejad's latest statement on Tehran's capability to produce highly enriched uranium.
The United States has expressed its complete dissatisfaction over the steps taken by the Egyptian government to meet the demands of the pro-democracy protestors and warned that these protests are going to grow bigger unless the Mubarak regime takes some concrete steps.
All has not been well between Michelle Obama and her husband's close aides, according to a new book which claims tension grew so severe at one point that then Press Secretary Robert Gibbs even "cursed" the First Lady behind her back in an outburst during a staff meeting.
The US India CEO Forum was launched in 2005 and has held meetings in both the US and India in the past.
The White House dismissed calls seeking the resignation of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over WikiLeaks allegation that she ordered US diplomats to spy at the UN, and termed such demands as "absurd and ridiculous".
United States President Barack Obama received 12 stitches on his upper lip after he was accidentally elbowed in the face by one of his fellow players during a basketball match with friends and family, the White House has said.
The United States on Tuesday "strongly condemned" North Korea's artillery attack against the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, as Washington warned that it was firmly committed to the defense of our ally.
APEC is an important forum that brings together the dynamic economies of the Pacific Rim and Singapore is an important partner on a range of regional and global issues.
The United States on Friday said it would not confirm if Pakistan's most wanted terrorist Baitullah Mehsud has been killed in a missile strike but maintained that there seems to be a "growing consensus among credible observers" that the militant commander was dead.
The United States on Wednesday dismissed Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's view that the US-backed coalition forces are losing the war in Afghanistan, saying actions taken in the last several months were keeping in mind the hearts and minds of the Afghan people.
The United States has said that it was not at all surprised by the stunning release of classified documents by the Wikileaks on war against terror, which says there are safe havens in Pakistan and elements in that country's establishment are helping Al Qaeda and Taliban.
US President Barack Obama is in favour of a comprehensive immigration reform, but this can't be done without the support of the Republicans, the White House has said.
United States President Barack Obama has appointed Bruce Riedel, a veteran Central Investigative Agency analyst for nearly three decades, to chair an inter-agency policy review of US policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan.Obama's press spokesman Robert Gibbs said that this policy review chaired by Riedel would have to be completed before the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in April.
US President Barack Obama will meet Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House on February 18, objections from China notwithstanding.
Amid increasing tension between the United States and China over the arms sale to Taiwan and US president Barack Obama's upcoming meeting with the Dalai Lama, the US appeared to be adopting a conciliatory approach saying that it has many areas of common interest with the communist country.
In the wake of tumultuous political events in Egypt, which brought about the downfall of embattled president Hosni Mubarak, United States has said that Iran should not restrict its people from the freedom of expression and assembly.
Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged in a botched al-Qaeda plot to blow up an American airliner, has provided useful "actionable intelligence" during his interrogation by FBI sleuths, the White House has said.
United States President Barack Obama has ordered a review of air security measures after a Nigerian youth carrying explosives managed to sneak into a transatlantic American jet."The president wants to review some of these procedures and see if they need to be updated," said an official, amid reports that the 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was on a US 'security watch list' after his father alerted authorities about is behaviour.
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