President-elect Barack Obama has accepted congratulations from nine presidents and prime ministers, returning calls from world leaders who reached out after his victory.
Italy's famously impolitic Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has described US President-elect Barack Obama as young, handsome and even tanned .
Russian newspapers have paid scant attention to Barack Obama's victory, focusing on a speech by their president.
Barack Obama has made history by becoming the first black US president-elect, but security agents now face major challenges in protecting him.
Democrat Barack Obama has won the popular vote by a six-point margin of 52 to 46% from vanquished Republican rival John McCain.
Barack Obama began his first full day as president-elect with the simple pleasure of having breakfast with his daughters.
Scenes of jubilation have erupted all over Africa as Barack Obama won the US election -Kenya has even declared a national holiday.
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell is calling Barack Obama's election historic and says he'll be a president for all Americans.
World leaders have drawn up demands to put to Barack Obama and quickly expressed a desire to see his promise of change.
Months before Tuesday's election, Barack Obama was already secretly planning for taking on the nation's top job, transitioning his political campaign into a governing machine.
Iraq has ruled out a quick disengagement policy by Washington in the country following Barack Obama's victory.
There's no set definition for what constitutes a landslide, but Barack Obama's resounding electoral victory seems to fit the bill.
Barack Obama's historic win as first black US president inspires pride among Africans, but analysts say it will not translate into concrete US policy changes to benefit the continent.
President George W Bush and vice president Dick Cheney have both congratulated Barack Obama and his running mate Joe Biden.
One of Barack Obama's first tasks will be to lead the United States back into the heart of the global debate on climate change.
President Kgalema Motlanthe has congratulated US president elect Barack Obama on his victory as the first black president of the most powerful country in the world.
Did Barack Obama's MySpace and Facebook friends help put him in the White House? Did he Twitter his way to the top?
US President George W Bush has telephoned Democrat Barack Obama to congratulate him on his awesome night .
Americans have elected Barack Obama as their first black president, handing him an historic victory over John McCain.
Barack Obama has taken the votes of women, blacks and Hispanics, while John McCain won the favour of white voters.
Barack Obama has won the battleground state of Ohio in another devastating blow to rival John McCain.
Barack Obama has taken a huge step towards becoming the first black US president as TV networks projected he would win Pennsylvania.
Barack Obama has eased the tension of election day with a game of basketball at a gym in Chicago. It was unclear who his opponents were.
A feeling of excitement has prevailed at the polling station in Barack Obama's home town of Chicago.
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama has cast his ballot in his home city of Chicago with his young daughter Malia by his side.
Barack Obama has come up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, New Hampshire.
Barack Obama choked back tears on the campaign trail and John McCain blitzed across seven states to make up ground before the historic US election.
Barack Obama has delivered a rousing election-eve speech to a crowd of swaying, chanting and screaming supporters.
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama's life is being depicted in musical form in his ancestral homeland Kenya.
Barack Obama has a decisive edge over John McCain 24 hours out from the most scintillating election in a generation, polls show.
With two days remaining in the US presidential contest, Republican John McCain has set out on a dizzying campaign charge, while Democrat Barack Obama looked to Ohio to clinch the race.
Barack Obama's White House campaign has said it was returning a small donation from his Boston-based Kenyan aunt after questions were raised over her US immigration status.
Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally.
Democrat Barack Obama's lead over Republican rival John McCain dipped slightly to five points with three days left in the race for the White House, according to poll.
Barack Obama and John McCain have taken their duel deep into the American heartland in a final push for votes ahead of next week's election.
Barack Obama's campaign says Democratic voters are piling up imposing early voting totals in battleground states, warning that John McCain must win big on election day.
A University of Kentucky student and another man have been arrested accused of hanging a Barack Obama effigy from a tree.
Barack Obama's campaign infomercial drew 26.4 million viewers to three major networks, figures show.
Kenyan police have barred the media from the home of Barack Obama's grandmother in the run-up to next week's US elections.
A life-sized likeness of Barack Obama has been found hanging from a tree with a noose around its neck at the University of Kentucky.
Republican John McCain has attacked Barack Obama's prime-time infomercial, saying it was paid for with "broken promises".
Barack Obama holds clear leads in four reliably Republican states and is tied in two others as his campaign works to remake America's political map.
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama says he's not worried about threats to his life, saying instead that hate groups have been marginalised by his candidacy.
Residents of a US town are shocked that a 20-year-old who grew up among them was one of two skinheads accused of plotting to kill Barack Obama.
Barack Obama's wife Michelle has appeared on Jay Leno's show, talking about clothing, her husband and their children.
A US government agency says it has foiled a plot to assassinate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate more than a hundred black people.
Barack Obama has opened up an eight-point lead over John McCain in Virginia, a key battleground state in this election campaign.
Barack Obama says he is deeply grateful for the all the support he has received over his gravely ill grandmother.
Barack Obama is signalling a shift in tactics and temperament as he moves from candidate to president-elect, picking sharp-elbowed Washington insiders for top posts.
Barack Obama may have the chance to appoint two judges to the Supreme Court, giving him an opportunity to make a further lasting mark.
President-elect Barack Obama has barely had time to savour his victory before getting a sobering look at some of the problems he will inherit.
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has called Barack Obama's victory a unique chance to usher in a new era of American cooperation with the rest of the world.
Pope Benedict XVI has sent a telegram of congratulations to Barack Obama to hail the historic occasion of his election as US president.
An emotional Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that as an African-American she is especially proud that Barack Obama has been elected the first black US president.
Iranians have welcomed Barack Obama's victory as the next US president as a triumph over the unpopular policies of President George W Bush.
Supporters of Barack Obama have erupted into song and dance in bars from Australia and the UK, China and Europe.
South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, says the election of America's first black president is a symbol of hope.
Now comes the hard part as President-elect Barack Obama sails into a perfect storm of economic crisis and war.
As he finalises his cabinet picks, president-elect Barack Obama is likely to draw on a deep bench of Democratic grandees who hark back to the stability and prosperity of Bill Clinton's time.
Images and sentiments from US celebrations began pouring in on the internet, just moments after Barack Obama clinched the presidential election.
With hula dancers, ecstatic chanting and some rock 'n' roll, a Japanese town named Obama has rejoiced as its accidental namesake was elected president of the US.
Watch and read the full text of Barack Obama's victory speech in Chicago.
Barack Obama's family in the Kenyan village of Kogelo have erupted in cheers, singing We are going to the White House!
Barack Obama's historic election victory has yielded a special bonus for his two daughters Malia and Sasha.
Cheering, screaming and weeping with joy, an estimated 50 000 Barack Obama supporters have welcomed his election.
Americans have elected Barack Obama as their first black president in a transformational election which will reshape US politics.
Barack Obama has now added Iowa's seven electoral votes to his total, as he builds on his commanding lead over John McCain.
Barack Obama stands on the verge of becoming the first black US president, after capturing key states Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Thousands of people have begun pouring in to Chicago's Grant Park for White House hopeful Barack Obama's election night party.
Buoyed by a surge of support from young voters, Barack Obama could become the first Democrat to capture traditionally Republican Virginia in more than four decades.
Barack Obama has won the vital battleground state of Pennsylvania US television networks projected, leaving Republican John McCain only a razor-thin route to the presidency.
The presidential vote cast already by Democrat Barack Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham will count despite her dying just hours before election day, a spokesperson says.
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain face the verdict of US voters after a long and bitter struggle for the White House.
A record number of Americans have cast their ballots in pivotal US states ahead of Tuesday's election.
An Irish town that was once home to an ancestor of Barack Obama is planning a US election night party and hoping the Democrat will sweep into the White House.
As the race for the US presidency enters its final hours, polls suggest Democrat Barack Obama holds a solid lead.
Barack Obama heads into Tuesday's voting in a comfortable position, with John McCain struggling to overtake him in every national poll.
In the last hours of the White House race, the Republicans have released ads attacking Barack Obama over ties with Jeremiah Wright.
After a gruelling, hard-fought rollercoaster 21 months, Barack Obama stands on the brink of making history by becoming the first black US president.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he did not know that one of his relatives from Kenya was living in the United States illegally.
Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has warned that a win by Barack Obama in the US election could worsen the world financial crisis, a report says.
Democrat Barack Obama has steeled his supporters for a crescendo of vicious attacks in the final hours of the campaign.
Almost 22% of American households tuned in to watch Barack Obama's half-hour infomercial, according to preliminary figures.
Wary of voter overconfidence, White House hopeful Barack Obama is not letting up, telling supporters we can't afford to slow down .
As millions of Democrats root for presidential hopeful Barack Obama in the run-up to the US elections, a small group of voters are starting celebrations in SA.
The Economist, the widely-respected weekly current affairs magazine, has backed Barack Obama as president, saying he's a gamble the US should take.
John McCain and Sarah Palin have accused the LA Times of protecting Barack Obama by withholding a tape of the Democrat attending a 2003 party.
Millions of Americans have lined up to vote early in the US election with many appearing to favour Barack Obama.
Barack Obama has taken to the airwaves with a half-hour paid television appeal, in an effort to lock in his lead in the polls.
Barack Obama is gearing up to deliver a presidential-style address to the nation on the final stretch of his White House campaign.
Barack Obama, if he is elected US president, will disappoint European admirers when they find out he has no magic wand to change foreign policy.
Move over Jack-o'-lanterns. Democrats won't be scared this Halloween - not with Barack-o'-lanterns burning.
Barack Obama has entered the final seven days of the dramatic presidential campaign exhorting supporters to fight to the end.
Barack Obama is set to present his closing argument , but a Republican aide says it will be more of the same empty rhetoric.
Barack Obama's camp have denied he has a draft inaugural address prepared, to head off Republican accusations of arrogance 10 days before the election.