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Barack Obama is the 44th president and Current president of the USA. He was born on August 4 1961, His political career started in the year 1966, and he elected as a Illinois senate in 1966. Obama elected as a US senator On January 4, 2005; He was the fifth African American as a US senator. He became a president on Jan 20, 2009. He is the first African-American president of United States.

Obama was addressed the nation for the first time as a Senator of the USA. More than 200 years of history this will never happen in USA that the African –American as a US president. Barack Obama proved the power of democracy. Obama signed his first bill in to law; The Lilly Ledbetter Fair pay act of 2009. He also got the Nobel Peace prize in 2009. Obama is the third US president gets the Nobel Peace prize.

A total of 13,722 people worldwide infected by swine flu. The European Union, as well some experts in America said that a pandemic might be inevitable, but they doubt the number deaths will be high. In Mexico, 168 deaths confirmed. In US, 169 are confirmed cases. In Canada 34 confirmed cases. In UK, there are eight confirmed cases. In Spain, there are 13 confirmed cases. In Germany, there are four confirmed cases.

The Swine Flu virus in India, taking the death toll to 463. Of the latest deaths reported from the Southern state of Karnataka alone, while only one death confirmed from state Maharashtra. Infection tally rises to 13,722. In the recent past their has been a spike in the number of cases being reported from Kerela. Of the latest 75 cases reported from Kerela alone. “Till Date samples from 72,483, people have been tested for Influenza virus ‘A’ (H1N1) in Government laboratories. Moreover, 13,722 of them have been found positive.

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The Novsky Express from Moscow to St.Petersberg was carrying 661 passengers. A terrorist bomb planted on Russia derails the train on November 28, 2009. In this attack, 30 killed and at least 100 were injured, some were in critical conditions. Russian authorities claim that the train targeted in an act of terrorism using homemade explosive it is equivalent to 15 pounds of TNT. The injured were transported to hospitals in Moscow and St. Petersburg by bus, train, and even helicopters. Investigators said that they had opened a large-scale terrorism investigation as detectives with sniffer dogs, looking for clues.

Suspicion will inevitably fall on Islamist radicals from Chechnya Russia’s North volatile region. The attack is most serious act of terror since the Beslan school siege in 2004 in which more than 330 people died. The same train service attacked in 2007 when a similar bomb injured around 30 people. The issue is a highly emotive in Russia.