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US President Barack Obama visits Ground Zero in New York, which has become the hub of American celebration over the death of Osama bin Laden. Sarah Smith reports from New York.
Photos of Osama bin Laden’s dead body will not be published, says President Obama, as senior Taliban commanders tell Channel 4 News the al-Qaeda leader died of kidney disease months ago.
Jon Snow
Nothing so scars an American President as un-success. Contrast the fortunes of Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. Helicopter failure afflicted both in their high profile rescue missions, it destroyed the Presidency of one, and may well have forged a second term for the other.
The number of people killed after devastating storms and tornadoes hit southern states in the US rises to 339. On a visit to the area President Obama says the destruction is “heartbreaking”.
President Barack Obama tells US public to avoid the “silliness” over his birth certificate and focus on much more important issues like the economy, unemployment and the budget deficit.
Our Washington Correspondent, Sarah Smith, reports on President Obama’s attempts to lay to rest Republican rumours that he was born outside the USA. And Republican fears that the row could rebound on them.
Donald Trump: millionaire property developer, host of the hugely successful Celebrity Apprentice – and now presidential candidate? Sarah Smith reports.
Our Washington Correspondent, Sarah Smith looks at the questions the Obama Administration is still to answer about its intervention in Libya.
A man of decisive words more than decisive action over his time, President Obama has bucked the trend of his time in office announcing firm action in the mission against Gaddafi – but perhaps more words are needed to answer the question, just why he has got so involved?
After Libya declares a ceasefire in line with a UN resolution President Obama voices strong warning to Gaddafi to adhere to the terms of the agreement.
David Cameron and Barack Obama are ‘preparing for what might have to be done if Gaddafi goes on brutalising his own people’ as Lindsey Hilsum reports from the frontline.
President Obama announces the resumption of military trials at Guantanamo Bay. Sarah Smith says he’s effectively admitting that he cannot carry through plans to close the camp.
It’s not just in Britain that the Government’s cutting spending. President Obama is planning a $1.1trillion cut – and his political opponents say that’s not enough, as Felicity Spector reports.
Washington Correspondent Sarah Smith blogs on America’s next move amidst Egypt’s power change, and asks if it’s time for President Obama to earn his Nobel Peace Prize?
No one was more surprised than President Obama when his old friend Hosni Mubarak did not stand down as Egyptian President on Thursday night, writes US Correspondent Sarah Smith in Washington.