Congratulations pour in from around the world for President-elect Barack Obama after his historic victory Tuesday night. But what are Obama’s foreign policy positions, and what are the concerns for those living in countries at the target end of US foreign policy? We host a roundtable discussion with filmmaker and investigative journalist John Pilger in Britain, Columbia University professor and Africa scholar Mahmood Mamdani, Laura Carlsen of the Center for International Policy in Mexico City, Iraqi analyst Raed Jarrar, Pakistani author Tariq Ali, and Palestinian American Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada.

South African singer Miriam Makeba has died aged 76 after being taken ill near the southern Italian town of Caserta following a concert, ANSA news agency reports.

A Staten Island teen who is black was viciously assaulted Tuesday night in what police believe was a bias attack sparked by Barack Obama's presidential victory.  Seventeen-year-old Ali Kamara, whose family emigrated from Liberia, is still in great pain after being beaten by four young men with baseball bats on Tuesday night.

African-American men and boys have been especially inspired by Barack Obama's successful presidential run. CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reports on how the president-elect is now the ultimate role model.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other EU leaders congratulated Barack Obama on Wednesday on his "brilliant victory" in the US presidential election, expressing hopes for closer collaboration between Europe and the USA.

Mecklenburg County Commissioners heard 16 different recommendations in a long-awaited report Monday night from the public safety task force they appointed back in May.

NBC's Mara Schiavocampo and Michelle Kosinski report amongst emotional crowds in Harlem and Spelman College in Atlanta, respectively.

Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives and Africans across the continent sang, danced in the streets and wrapped themselves in U.S. flags Wednesday to cheer in America's first black president. Kenya will party for two days, after the president declared a national holiday.

Hot 107.9 radio personality Shyneka Richardson, also known as Mizz Shyneka, is red hot over a recent shopping experience at a Douglas County mall. Richardson, who is considering filing suit, said she and her boyfriend, David Smith, were held for hours by security officers at Arbor Place Mall after Smith was accused of stealing a shirt. Richardson said the couple was approached in the food court by mall security.  “I just really don't understand why they chose us out of everybody else that was in the mall," said Richardson

Food prices are still on the rise, but those who get food stamps are struggling to stretch their budgets. The average food stamp allocation for a single person is $119 a month and what they get for that just does not put enough food on the table. Imagine living on $48 a month. Betty Barnwell’s cupboards just have a few canned goods to get by. Every month she gets $48 to buy food, but last month she only received $28.

Two neo-nazis in Tennessee and Arkansas allegedly plotted to assassinate Sen. Barack Obama and Black schoolchildren

Lillie McCain and her siblings are descended from two of about 120 slaves held before the end of the Civil War at Teoc, the Mississippi plantation owned by the family of Republican nominee John McCain's great-great-grandfather.  Douglas Blackmon speaks with Charles McCain Jr. and his sister Mary McCain Fluker, descendants of slaves held at the Mississippi plantation owned by the family of Sen. John McCain's great-great-grandfather.

Seven-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist Jay-Z and NBA star LeBron James will rally Obama supporters and encourage early voting at a "Last Chance for Change" event in Cleveland Wednesday.

Clayton County police are investigating a seemingly random shooting that killed a 16-year-old.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama brought his campaign back to Colorado on Sunday for another rock-star reception, drawing an estimated 145,000 people at early voting rallies in Denver and Fort Collins.

A man convicted of killing his wife and twin 2-year-old sons was attacked in court by a family member of the victims Wednesday.

The housing market boom of years past has turned into a huge bust for some.  That has others saying now is the best time to buy.

An Ivory Coast court on Wednesday handed down jail terms of 20 years and five years to two people for the dumping of toxic waste from a cargo ship in Abidjan in 2006 which killed 17 people and poisoned thousands.

A Tempe man jumped into the back of his own pickup truck as a man tried to steal it.

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