US Presidential election 2012

Selecting Joe Biden as vice president was the right decision as there could not have been a better partner during the Presidency, US President Barack Obama has said after being sworn in for a second term.

Now that President Barack Obama has overcome Mitt Romney, super PACs and a sluggish economy, he faces a challenge with deep roots in political history: what historians and commentators call the “second-term curse.”

The White House is making America's high-stakes fiscal crisis its top priority coming out of the election, underscoring the vital importance of averting severe year-end tax increases and spending cuts as President Obama heads toward a second term.

President Barack Obama's re-election means he can sustain the strategic shift toward the Asia-Pacific started during his first term but the attention and resources the region gets may be hostage to instability in West Asia and budget battles in Washington.

The White House says President Barack Obama has spoken with more than a dozen world leaders following his re-election and expressed his desire to continue to have close cooperation with them.

Romney had promised green cards for all foreign students graduating in science and tech from US varsities; Obama not ready to go that far; But reversing brain drain now easier. Charu Sudan Kasturi reports.

Hailing the re-election of Barack Obama as US President, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today expressed confidence that India and the US will work together for the larger good of humanity in the times to come.

China hopes that the new Obama administration would set a more constructive tone in crafting its China policy as it pointed out that US President Barack Obama's first term had seen ties 'effectively whittled down', state-run news agency Xinhua said.

Freed from the constraints of a lengthy election campaign, US President Barack Obama now has another shot at pressing Iran through diplomacy to scale back its nuclear programme, analysts say.

Fresh from his re-election triumph, President Barack Obama today called leaders in Congress to prepare the ground for a political showdown over a cresting financial crisis that could spark recession.

Ami Bera, a California state Democrat, looks likely to make history becoming only the second Indian origin member of the US House of Representative. Yashwant Raj reports.Yashwant Raj

Election officials halted the vote count in Florida amid a tight race in the southern state between President Barack Obama and his defeated Republican rival Mitt Romney, US media reported.