Barack Obama

Sarah Palin's Shakespearean Tweets

Which one of this week’s Wise Words would you choose to complete this tweet? Refute, repudiate or refudiate?

President Obama thinks he has the answer. Photo: P. Souza/The White House

An historic bill is passed

What can governments do to prevent a financial meltdown from happening again? President Obama believes he has the answer.

finanzieller Kollaps

Heed the signs

Did Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, fail to ignore the warning signs? Think about it.

Vorstandsvorsitzende(r)

Complete the idiom: "The White House has BP over a ____."

Pipeline, barrel or rig?

Oil flows and a president resigns

We look at international press commentary on BP’s unsuccessful clean-up efforts and on the resignation of German President Horst Köhler.

Rücktritt

President Obama and Sen. Ted Kennedy participate in a national service event. Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

Perseverance pays off

There are a lot of people who are celebrating this week that Obama persevered with Kennedy’s cause. It should be a lesson to all of us.

durchhalten

Bush and Blair Wanted for War Crimes, Iraq Inquiry, London Photo by Chris John Beckett

Iraq, bank reform and the iPad

This week, we look at media comment on Tony Blair’s testimony about his Iraq war decisions. We also look at Barack Obama’s bank-reform proposals as well as comment on Apple’s newest product, the iPad.

Aussage(n)

Underwhelming or awesome?

US President Obama gave his first State of the Union address last night. He mainly focused on jobs, with a small “j”. The rest of the world seemed more focused on Jobs, with a capital “J”: Steve Jobs.

Rede zur Lage der Nation

They need all the help they can get. Photo: US Navy

How to help Haitians

When disaster strikes, it's often hard to find the right words. When the disaster is in the form of an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale in Haiti, it's almost impossible.

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Erdbeben

Scene from Ang Lee's 2005 Brokeback Mountain

The best of the decade

The end of the year is approaching and this time round it also marks the end of the first decade of the new millennium. So what were the top five films of the “noughties”?

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das erste Jahrzehnt, die Nullerjahre

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