U.S. President-elect Barack Obama & former President Bill Clinton

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) meets with former U.S. president Bill Clinton (L) in Clinton's Harlem New York office Sept. 11, 2008.  (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday claimed victory in the U.S. presidential election, saying "change has come to America."

    Addressing about 150,000 supporters at his election night party at Grant Park in downtown Chicago, Illinois, Obama congratulated his Republican rival John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin for their achievements in the presidential campaign. Obama expressed his wish to work with the two to renew the country's promise.

Obama announces his national security team

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced on Monday his national security team, including former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state and incumbent Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who would retain his post.

    "America must be strong at home and abroad," Obama told a news conference in his transition office headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, drawing a full stop to a month-long speculations on his cabinet members.

Clinton urges U.S.to put its domestic situation in order 

    KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said here on Friday that the United States needed to streamline its domestic situation quickly, especially stimulating its economy, to get rid of its current economic woes.

    The United States has to engineer the quickest possible economic recovery, including restoring its financial sector and credit market and solving its housing mortgage mess, Clinton told a lecture at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center here.

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