The massive voter turnout in Tuesday's presidential election in the United States, was one of the major factors that fueled Democrat Barack Obama's victories in key races in Virginia, New

Democrats strengthened their majorities in both houses of Congress, assuring President-elect Barack Obama a stronger hand in enacting his agenda of change. They also celebrated the re-

Barack Obama rode a wave of voter discontent to a historic White House victory, promising change as the first black U.S. president but facing enormous challenges from a deep economic crisis

Citizens of the world erupted in celebration as news of Barack Obama's election spread across the continents. They danced in the rain in Indonesia. They toasted with saki in Japan. They brushed back tears of joy in Germany. Democrat Obama's message of hope rang loud and clear as

MUSTAFA AKYOL

EMILY ROSE McRAE

One thing is for sure - the George Bush administration has just 75 days more in the White House - while the election landslide of (Hussein) Barrack Obama in Tuesday's presidential vote may bring a drastic change in the U.S. as well as throughout the world, what course the U.S. and the international political order will take after Obama's takeover of the White House is totally unpredictable.Like most people elsewhere did, in the former Roman imperial capital Rome, where I am attending the fifth edition of the Turkish-Italian forum“ItoTurk”, I was glued to the TV Tuesday night to follow the development of the elections in the last empire of modern times, the U.S. Back on Oct. 30, I wrote in t

MARKUS UREK