The United States Military at Guantánamo Bay announced that after seven years of imprisonment Osama bin Laden’s driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, will be released from confinement. He will serve out the remainder of his four-month term, of which he is expected to serve for one month, in Yeman, according to officials. He was held since […]

On November 24, 2008 President-elect Barack Obama announced his plans for his upcoming administration’s economic team at a speech in Chicago. The group faces what are viewed as unprecedented economic challenges for the United States, including economic crisis, paranoid economic markets, rising unemployment, dwindling house values and rising foreclosures, and a fragile banking system at […]

Germany
In Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that the German government has introduced what she calls a “bridge” for the economy of 50 billion euros ($65 billion U.S. dollars) in investment in 2009 and 2010. The stimulus package is geared towards protecting jobs. Germany, with the largest European economy, recently put into affect a bank rescue […]

Barack Obama, 47, Democratic Senator from Illinois, was elected president by defeating John McCain, 72, the Republican Senator from Arizona. Obama is the first African American elected President in the United States in its history.
Obama, 47, who declared “change has come to America” at his election night victory speech, will begin his transition to the White House. He will be inaugurated as the 44th president on January 20, 2009.