Less than two weeks ago, President Obama lament that he was too busy to go to Denmark to lobby for Chicago’s bid to host the Olympics. “I would make the case in Copenhagen personally,” he said, “if I were not so definitely committed to making real the promise of quality, affordable health care for every American.”

Obviously, his commitment to health care is no longer quite so time consuming. Mr. Obama announced Monday that he could fly to Copenhagen this week after all to lobby the International Olympic Committee for the 2016 Summer Games.

Mr. Obama changed his mind and decided to take a gamble no other American president has been taken at the urging of his close friend and senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, who has been deeply involved in promoting Chicago’s bid. He hopes to trump the presence in Copenhagen of his counterparts from rival countries looking for the games - Brazil, Japan and Spain - and duplicate the success that Tony Blair of Britain and Vladimir V. Putin of Russia have had in recent years by personally lobbying for their nations’ bids.

US President Barack Obama told the United Nations on Wednesday that he will look for to wrap up a universal treaty to ban all nuclear testing and open talks on halting production of bomb-making fissile material in the next 12 months.

Neither announcement comes as a surprise to New Delhi, but the US President's statement that the "next twelve months could be pivotal in influential whether this compact will be strengthen or will slowly dissolve means India will have to create some tough choices in the coming year - notably whether to sign the comprehensive test ban treaty - at a time where there is immense argument at home about the scale of its nuclear avoidance.

In his first speech before the UN as US President, Obama draws a sharp contrast to his predecessor George Bush by reaffirming US commitment to the United Nations, while chastising the rest of the world for expecting Washington to solve all problems. But it was his firm resolves to address a nuclear proliferation issue that was most striking for New Delhi, given the uncertainties that have come to characterize its relationship with Washington on matters of nuclear cooperation and non-proliferation.

"Nobody's above the law," Mr Obama said in an interview with the American CBS television programme look The Nation.

The US Attorney General Eric Holder last month named as prosecutor to examine whether the CIA had gone beyond approved interrogation methods.

The former heads wrote to Mr Barrack Obama saying the probe would hamper CIA work.

They said the cases had already been investigate during the Bush administration and lawyers had declined to prosecute in all but one.

"This approach will seriously injure the willingness of intelligence officers to take risks to protect the country," their letter read.

"In our judgment, such risk-taking is imperative to success in the long and difficult fight against terrorists who continue to threaten us."

The former CIA chiefs serve under Republican and Democratic presidents.

In a bid to ensure the global spread of swine flu, US President Barack Obama has announced that his administration is prepared to make 10 per cent of its H1N1 vaccine supply available to other countries through the World Health Organisation.

"In recognition that diseases know no limits and that the health of the American people is inseparable from the health of people around the world, the US is taking this action in concert with Australia, Italy, Brazil, France, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the UK," White House said.

Under the plan, the US will create the H1N1 vaccine available to WHO on a rolling basis as vaccine supplies become available, in order to help countries that will not otherwise have direct access to the vaccine.

In a bid to ensure the global spread of swine flu, US President Barack Obama has announced that his administration is prepared to make 10 per cent of its H1N1 vaccine supply available to other countries through the World Health Organisation.

"In recognition that diseases know no limits and that the health of the American people is inseparable from the health of people around the world, the US is taking this action in concert with Australia, Italy, Brazil, France, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the UK," White House said.

Under the plan, the US will create the H1N1 vaccine available to WHO on a rolling basis as vaccine supplies become available, in order to help countries that will not otherwise have direct access to the vaccine.

US President Barack Obama extends 47-year-old trade embargo against Cuba for another year.
In a statement, Mr Obama said that it was in the US national notice to extend the Trading with the Enemy Act which covers the trade embargo.

It is mainly a symbolic step because the final decision rests with Congress.

Under legislation from 1996, the Helms-Burton Act, the embargo can only be lift when Cuba is deemed to have begun a democratic transition.

Cuba has been under a financial, deal and travel ban since 1962 - one of the last surviving remnants of the Cold War.

Critics see it as a missed opportunity to signal a further readiness to ease relations between the two countries.

Mr Obama has lifted some of the restrictions allowing Cuban-Americans to visit relatives whenever they need and send money home.

The Cuban authorities have describe these changes as little more than a cosmetic coat of paint, but the US administration continues to demand that Cuba must first show signs of reform before lifting the embargo.

NASA needs an extra $3 billion a year to send astronauts back to the moon or to deep-space flybys of Mars or asteroids and avoid an “unsustainable trajectory” of surroundings goals without adequate funding, a panel told President Barack Obama.

The space agenda “is perpetuating the perilous perform of pursuing goals that do not match allocated resources,” the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee said in a summary of its report. The panel is lead by Norman Augustine, former chief executive of aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.

With the space shuttle program winding down, the U.S. is seeking a new mission for astronauts that might include a return to the moon, a goal set for 2020 by former President George W. Bush. Astronauts haven’t traveled beyond about 300 miles from Earth since the last Apollo mission to the lunar surface almost four decades ago.

Perform one set of tricep pushdowns using a straight bar attached to the high pulley of a cable station and then, without resting, go behind with a set of hammer curls using dumbbells. Immediately repeat the whole process until two or three sets of both exercises have been completed.

The information of Mrs. Obama's fitness routine came as part of a series of interviews by President Barack Obama and Mrs. Obama on health care and their personal fitness and nutrition habits.

Obama was interviewed by Men's Health; he also was feature in the magazine last November. Mrs. Obama gave her first interviews to Women's Health and Children's Health, an original magazine by Rodale Inc., publisher of the men's and women's health magazines.

Obama is again on the coat of Men's Health, while his wife graces the cover of Children's Health. She is joined by a few of the Bancroft Elementary School pupils who have been involved with the White House garden.

Obama said he works out six days a week: two cardio days and four weightlifting days split between the lower and upper body. He also discusses his effort to overhaul the U.S. health care system and his late mother's bout with cancer.

US President Barack Obama Wednesday spoke by telephone with Japan's incoming Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to congratulate him and his Democratic Party of Japan on a landslide election succeeds.

Obama said he looked forward to seeing Hatoyama at this month's United Nations General Assembly in New York and the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, which will blot the new Japanese leader's first steps on the world stage.

"President Obama and Mr Hatoyama stressed the importance of a strong US-Japan Alliance and their desire to build an even more effective partnership," the White House said in a statement.

Obama said he required to work with the new Japanese government on economic recovery, climate change, North Korea, in defeating Al-Qaeda and building peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.