
Barack Obama will make history when he is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States - the first black American to hold the post.

With President Barack Obama's administration a new chapter opens and a new relation with Latinamerica begins said on Tuesday US ambassador in Argentina Anthony Wayne during a conference in Buenos Aires.

When Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, the wish list that has been building abroad may have grown longer than he or anyone else can deliver.
When Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, the wish list that has been building abroad may have grown longer than he or anyone else can deliver.

US President-elect Barack Obama has told a huge crowd of supporters at a pre-inauguration rally in Washington that anything is possible in America.

A US Airways aircraft has crashed into the Hudson River in New York after a flock of birds apparently disabled both its engines. More than 150 passengers and crew members were rescued before the plane sank into freezing waters.

The struggling US banking giant Citigroup has announced plans to split the firm in two, as it reported a quarterly loss of 8.29 billion US dollars. It said it would realign into two new firms, Citicorp and Citi Holdings.

Barack Obama, who takes over as US President on January 20 promised a new chapter in relations with Latinamerica and stronger US-Mexico links, following a meeting on Monday with President Felipe Calderón in Washington. It was Obama's first meeting with a foreign leader since his November election.
An autonomous British yellow robot submarine has just set out on a mission which will see it plunge deep beneath Antarctic ice shelves to seek clues to world ocean level rises. The seven meter yellow sub will probe the underside of ice at the end of the Pine Island glacier, which is moving faster than any other in Antarctica.
President-elect Barack Obama will meet with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday in Washington. Obama transition officials said the visit was in keeping with the tradition of U.S. presidents meeting with their Mexican counterpart soon after winning election.