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  • US President George W Bush. Photo Courtesy: AFP.
    President George W Bush on Saturday pledged full US support to India as it investigates the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, saying the killers "will not have the final word."
  • US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addresses the media at NATO Headquarters. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    The United States on Tuesday cooled its support for a formal path to help Georgia and Ukraine join NATO, amid opposition not just from Russia but also from Germany and France.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (L) with US President George W. Bush. Photo Courtesy: AFP.
    President George W Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the Middle East peace process, which has so far failed to yield results, will continue after the two lame-duck leaders leave office.
  • Former British PM Tony Blair with US President George W Bush.
    The Bush regime spied on the private life of Tony Blair while he was the British premier, according to a US whistle-blower, whose claim could prove embarrassing for the two close allies.
  • Laura and George W Bush leave for Asia. Photo Courtesy: AFP.
    "The president will build a library in Dallas - where we will move to - and a Freedom Institute," Laura Bush said in an interview to Peru's El Comercio daily published on Sunday.
  • US President George W Bush. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    US President George W Bush on Saturday denounced Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's "illegitimate regime" and called for a new government that would represent the will of the country's people.
  • US President George W Bush, Photo: AP
    President George W Bush, faced with a dwindling number of days in office, was using his final world summit to try to keep a virulent economic crisis from triggering a retreat into protectionism.
  • US President George W Bush, left, with Chinese President Hu Jintao ahead of APEC Summit. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    US President George W Bush began on Friday his last scheduled foreign trip, meeting the leader of increasingly important China ahead of a summit aimed at containing a spiraling financial crisis.
  • US President George W Bush. Photo Courtesy: AP
    US President George W Bush is sending the head of the US Agency for International Development, Henrietta Fore, to a November 28 UN summit on the economic crisis and is unlikely to attend himself, the White House said on Thursday.
  • French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the G20's Washington summit. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    President George W Bush has been "a loyal partner, not always easy, but loyal," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in Washington, after sharply criticizing the US leader in past days.
  • US President George W Bush. Photo Courtesy: AP
    "Democracies allow people with diverse views to discuss their differences and live in harmony," Bush said while addressing a special inter-faith meeting of the UN General Assembly.
  • US President George W Bush gestures during a statement on energy in Washington. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    US President George W Bush on Thursday called for reforms in the global financial institutions, arguing that the IMF and the World Bank should extend "greater voting powers to dynamic developing nations" to reflect the realities of today.
  • US president-elect Barack Obama with his family in Chicago. Photo Courtesy: AFP.
    As the clock ticks down to Barack Obama taking charge of America, Trailblazer and Tempo are making way for Renegade and Renaissance in White House. Yes, there even is a presidential transition for Secret Service code names.
  • US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Photo Courtsey: AP
    While the Bush administration shifts course on its $700 billion rescue plan, Congress is examining whether even bigger changes should be made in the program in light of the deteriorating economy and soaring mortgage foreclosures.
  • Barack Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention. Photo Courtesy: AFP.
    An army of top-notch specialists is set to fan out across US government agencies to delve deep into the records and prepare for the arrival of president-elect Barack Obama on January 20.
  • United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) walks with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah. Photo Courtesy: AFP.
    World leaders from 80 countries pleaded on Wednesday for religious tolerance at a UN conference sponsored by Saudi Arabia, but displayed their own rifts on the sensitive issue.
  • US President George W Bush. Photo Courtesy: AP
    US President George W Bush said that he had reached out by telephone to his predecessor, Bill Clinton, before talks with president-elect Barack Obama at the White House.
  • US President Bush (L) and president-elect Barack Obama meeting in the Oval Office of the White House. Photo Courtesy: AFP
    US president-elect Barack Obama, on his way to his historic January 20 swearing-in, held his first face-to-face talks with President George W Bush on Monday and got his first look at the Oval Office.
  • US President George W Bush at a news conference at the White House in Washington. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    Bush administration had given secret orders to US military to carry out attacks against al Qaida and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, a media report said on Monday, citing senior American officials.
  • US President George W Bush at a news conference at the White House in Washington. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    Barack Obama will make his first visit to the White House as president-elect on Monday for talks with President George W Bush on crisis issues including Iraq and the economy.
  • US President George W Bush delivers remarks to members of the media. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    US President George W Bush's successor inherits a world of troubles come January, including wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a defiant Iran, and a US economy battered by the global financial crisis.
  • US President George W Bush. Photo Courtesy: AP
    US President George W Bush assured Georgia and Ukraine of US support for both former Soviet states to join the NATO alliance despite Russia's fierce opposition.
  • US President George W Bush. Photo Courtsey: AFP
    At a time when the global economic crisis is affecting the most vulnerable across the globe, the Bush administration says the United States and other developed countries must honour their commitments to foreign assistance.
  • Stock dealers are seen in front of the German stock index (DAX). Photo Courtesy: AP.
    Asian stock markets advanced on Monday, with South Korean shares gaining for the first time in four days, as the government moved to shore up the country's banking system.
  • US President George Bush with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Photo Courtesy: AP
    European leaders are lobbying President Bush at the Camp David presidential retreat on Saturday to support a summit by end of 2008 that would craft ways to reform the world financial system.
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