Barack Obama

“On Tuesday US President Barack Obama called Mr Zapatero, urging him to take 'resolute action'.”

“[In the past] stimulus was too quickly withdrawn and resulted in renewed hardships and recession”

“But Mr Obama said the US would still aim to halve is own deficit by 2013”

“The US budget deficit would be cut to 3% of GDP by 2015”

“The leaders of the world's 20 leading economies are due to meet in Toronto on 26 June. Mr Obama said the priority of the meeting should be "to safeguard and strengthen the recovery"”

“Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank on 20 April, killing 11 workers.”

“White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said US President Barack Obama had expressed his 'deep sympathy' to Mr Lee and the Korean people and that the US 'strongly condemned' the action.”

“He called the alleged attack 'a challenge to international peace and security' and a violation of the armistice agreement which ended the Korean war. But he said it had reinforced the resolve of Nort…”

“After Wednesday's meeting at the White House, Mr Obama said the situation in Gaza was 'unsustainable' and promised $400m (£274m) in new aid for the territory.”

“Not only is the status quo with respect to Gaza unsustainable, but the status quo with respect to the Middle East is unsustainable, he said. It is time for us to go ahead, move forward on a two-state…”

“US President Barack Obama backed the deal but said he was "strongly opposed" to Israel being singled out.”

“the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US psyche as 9/11”

“shape how we think about the environment... for years to come”

“the availability of fossil fuel is going to be diminishing; that it's going to get more expensive to recover”

“ordered 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan in December.”

“On Tuesday, President Barack Obama described the leak as "the greatest environmental disaster of its kind in our history"...”

“"I want to thank Jeffrey (Katzenberg) not just for this evening, but for his tenacious support and advocacy since we started back in 2007," Obama said”

“While the use of force is sometimes necessary, we will exhaust other options before war whenever we can... when force is necessary we will continue to do so in a way that reflects our values and stre…”

“ordered 30,000 extra troops”

“60th birthday party”

“BP shares sliding 5% on Tuesday after US President Barack Obama said he would have fired chief executive Tony Hayward over remarks he made.”

“BP's compensation costs may not be limited to the £20bn already planned for the fund”

“US President Barack Obama, announcing $400m (£273m) worth of aid for the West Bank and Gaza, said the situation in the territory was "unsustainable".”

“hundreds of millions of dollars in aid”

“I want to thank Jeffrey (Katzenberg) not just for this evening, but for his tenacious support and advocacy since we started back in 2007,”

“Barack Obama is to tour the Gulf state of Louisiana on Friday”

“President Barack Obama has pledged to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by the end of August.”

“Up to 50,000 are expected to remain there until the end of 2011 to help train and equip Iraqi forces.”