President Barack Obama visited Oslo, Norway to accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize that he won.

Barbara Walters presented her Most Fascinating People of 2009. The list includes singers Lady Gaga and Adam Lambert and reality star Kate Gosselin. The top spot went to First Lady Michelle Obama.

Saturday Night Live opened their show with a sketch mocking the White House state dinner party crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the Secret Service and Vice President Joe Bidden.

The Global Language Monitor declared the word “twitter” as the most popular word for the year 2009 while “global warming” is top word of the decade.

The Obamas have released a new official first family portrait, the work of America’s most celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz.

United States President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Obama said he was surprised and deeply humbled by the honor, and planned to travel to Oslo to accept the award.

An online poll which asked if President Barack Obama should be assassinated is being investigated by the United States Secret Service. The survey, posted on Facebook over the weekend, was immediately removed after company officials were alerted to its existence.

President Barack Obama, in his first speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, said the United States is ready to address challenges ranging from nuclear proliferation to global economic prosperity. However, he told world leaders that America could no longer be expected to provide solutions alone.

It’s been 8 years since the airline-hijacking terrorists attacked the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Today, September 11, the same day of the attack, U.S. President Barack Obama together with high-ranking members of the his administration fanned out across the country to take part in the first official National Day of Service and Remembrance.

Republican South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” after Obama denied that his health care proposal would cover illegal immigrants during his health care speech to the Congress.