US Presidential election 2012

From his old school in Indonesia to a Japanese beach town that happens to share his name, people around the world cheered President Barack Obama's re-election today.

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In Afghanistan, where US troops are fighting and dying in America's longest conflict, the re-election of President Barack Obama was met with a war-weary shrug today as foreign forces prepare to withdraw.

Chinese leader Hu Jintao congratulated US President Barack Obama on his re-election, noting 'positive progress' in Sino-US relations over the past four years, China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

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Mitt Romney was a shrewd businessman, a skilled governor and an Olympic turnaround master, but on Tuesday his six-year quest for the presidency came to a crushing end.

Americans at Harry's Bar, an iconic watering hole in the French capital, fervently backed Barack Obama for the US presidency on Tuesday, leaving little doubt about their feelings for Republican rival Mitt Romney.

Democrats looked set to hold onto the Senate and Republicans retained the House of Representatives on Tuesday, setting up the prospect of more partisan gridlock in a divided Congress.

Barack Obama's Democrats were on a path today to retain control of the Senate, holding on to a key seat in Missouri where the losing Republican candidate triggered a firestorm with comments about "legitimate rape."

Nearly three-fourth of Indian-Americans voted for US President Barack Obama in the swing states which are considered to be decisive in final results, a sample survey has found.

Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams has already voted by absentee ballot, but if she wanted she could have voted in the US presidential election from her home in space on election day itself.

Trading in US stocks was quiet on Tuesday but betting on the US presidential race reached fever pitch with most online gambling sites giving President Barack Obama favorable odds to win.