Here are some of the hottest and most current stories on Senator Barack Obama’s :

Barack Obama may recruit defence chief Robert Gates
Times Online - UK
In defiance of traditional party labels, Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, may ask the defence secretary of President George W Bush to stay on if he wins the White House. Obama’s top foreign policy and national security advisers are pressing the case for keeping Robert Gates at the Pentagon

Obama announces trips to Middle East, Europe
AFP -
WASHINGTON (AFP) — White House hopeful Barack Obama, seeking to burnish his foreign policy credentials, announced Saturday he would visit major US allies in the Middle East and Europe before the November election. The Democratic senator plans to discuss terrorism, nuclear proliferation and climate change

GLBT group praises Michelle Obama
Baltimore Sun - United States
by Katie Fretland Faith In America has praised the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama for her speech this week at the Democratic National Committee's Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council in New York. At the Manhattan fundraiser, Michelle Obama said, "We are all only here because of those who marched and bled and died, from Selma to Stonewall, in the pursuit of a more perfect union."

The McCain-Obama war begins
Baltimore Sun - United States
By Naftali Bendavid With John McCain and Barack Obama now clearly their parties' nominees, the shape of the presidential battleground is far clearer. At the risk of oversimplification, three areas are critical to who wins in November.

Obama's man: Winning back 'Bush states'
Baltimore Sun - United States
by Mark Silva - David Plouffe, Barack Obama's campaign manager, is hardly a household name. You won't see him on the news talk shows.  He is, by his own design, a backroom manager. But with a new e-mailed video for supporters of the Democratic presidential candidate - and, of course, that means a fundraising appeal - Plouffe is walking people through the outlines of an Electoral College stragegy for Obama's victory in November.

Buffett Will Be Main Draw at Fundraisers for Obama Next Week
Bloomberg - USA
... investor Warren Buffett will be a main draw at two $28500 per-person fundraisers for Barack Obama in Chicago next week, according to the Obama campaign. Buffett will help host a dinner later the same day at the Chicago home of Penny Pritzker, the Hyatt hotel chain heiress

Chatwal to raise $10 million for Obama
Rediff - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Sant Chatwal, millionaire hotelier and close friend and fund-raiser for the Clintons for several years, has assured Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama [Images] that the Indian American community will raise over $10 million for his campaign to win back the White House.