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Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Colorado on Thursday night. During his acceptance speech, Obama stressed on the need for change in America and slammed the Republican party’s eight-year-rule.”Today is a defining moment,” said Obama, who created history by being the first African-American presidential nominee of a major party.

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Indian economic growth moderated to 7.9 per cent in the first quarter of current fiscal, against 9.2 per a year ago as rising borrowing costs impacted manufacturing and some other sectors.

“He is very committed to this country. He is very much an American man, but I think that the world has offered wonderful layers of the flavours of the people and he respects all of it and he welcomes all of it,” says Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama’s half-sister

One of the many supporters cheering on Barack Obama — during his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention at Colorado — was his brother-in-law Professor Konrad Ng, a Chinese Canadian originally from Burlington, Ontario. “Barack is just a terrific guy,” says Ng, and recalls with fondness how much the presidential hopeful had put him at ease the first time he visited the Obama household.

Ana Ivanovic was unceremoniously tossed out of the US Open on Thursday by an obscure Frenchwoman who had never played a tour-level match before arriving at Flushing Meadows. Julie Coin set alight the Arthur Ashe Stadium court when she produced the match of her life to shatter the world number one’s title hopes in the second round 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

To lure the automaker, West Bengal seized small farms to give Tata nearly 1,000 acres — and so far it has rejected compromise proposals.

The institutes are shut as a mark of protest against the killings in Orissa.