In Pictures: Michelle Obama in Haiti and Mexico
In Pictures: Obama's Asia trip
In Pictures: Inside President Obama's White House
In Pictures: Obama prays
In Pictures: Obama family vacations
In Pictures: President Obama in Afghanistan
Born on Aug. 4, 1961 in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and an American mother, Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983. This photograph shows Mr. Obama in his 1991 Harvard Law School graduation year picture. Obama was elected the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review in 1990. AFP/Getty Images/Obama for America/Newscom/File
Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson, a fellow Harvard Law School graduate, in Chicago on Oct. 18, 1992. Obama for America/AP/File
lllinois Senate candidate Barack Obama gives the keynote address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston on July 27, 2004. His speech was considered by many to be inspiring and established him as a rising political star. 'That is the true genius of America — a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles,' were among the words he said. Zuma Press/Newscom/File
Illinois Senator-elect Barack Obama (holding his daughter Malia) gives his acceptance speech in Chicago on Nov. 2, 2004. Mr. Obama, only the fifth black senator to be elected in history, defeated Republican Alan Keyes in the nation's first Senate race with two black major-party candidates. M. Spencer Green/AP/File
Sen. Obama embraces his step-grandmother Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama as he returns to his ancestral rural village of Kogelo, Kenya, on Aug. 26, 2006 during an extensive tour of African countries. Radu Sigheti/Reuters/File
Sen. Obama holds up a copy of his best-selling book, 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream,' at a book signing in New York on Oct. 19, 2006. The book covered subjects that became part of Obama's presidential campaign. Its title was inspired by a sermon given by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who made statements deemed anti-American that Obama denounced. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom/File
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is cheered by supporters after winning the Democratic Iowa caucuses in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 3, 2008. Mr. Obama holds his daughter Sasha while his wife Michelle stands with Malia. Keith Bedford/Reuters/File
Sen. Obama gives a speech accepting his presidential nomination at Invesco Field in Denver, Colo., on Aug. 28, 2008, the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Mary Knox Merrill/Staff/File
President-elect Sen. Barack Obama and running mate Senator Joe Biden wave to supporters following Mr. Obama's speech during his election night rally after being declared the winner of the 2008 US Presidential Campaign in Chicago on Nov. 4, 2008. John Gress/Reuters/File
President Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States during the inauguration ceremony in Washington on Jan. 20, 2009. Michelle Obama watches at right. The Bible Mr. Obama used is the same one that President Abraham Lincoln used at his inauguration in 1861. Obama made history as the first African-American to become US President. Jason Reed/Reuters/File
President Obama and Justice Sonia Sotomayor talk in the Justices' Conference Room prior to Justice Sotomayor's formal Investiture Ceremony to the Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 8, 2009. Ms. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice. Steve Petteway/Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States/AP
Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland presents President Obama with the Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Raadhuset Main Hall at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, on Dec.10, 2009. Mr. Obama received the award 'for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.' Pete Souza/White House via CNP/Newscom/File
President Obama is flanked by Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement about the House of Representatives' final passage of his health care legislation in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 21, 2010. The legislation would usher in the most sweeping changes to the $2.5 trillion US healthcare system in decades. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters/File
President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1, 2011. Mr. bin Laden was killed that night in a raid called 'Operation Neptune Spear,' carried out by Navy SEALs and CIA paramilitary operatives. Pete Souza/White House//Reuters/File
President Obama signs the Budget Control Act of 2011 in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Aug. 2. US Senate approval on a 74 to 26 vote of the $2.1 trillion deficit-reduction plan, already passed by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, drove away the immediate specter of a catastrophic US debt default.
In Pictures: Exploring Mars with Curiosity
In Pictures: A chance to pray at the Western Wall
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/09
In Pictures: Making it in Japan
In Pictures: Mothers of the world
In Pictures: What happened at the US Consulate in Libya?
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/08
In Pictures: Istanbul: A tale of two cities
In Pictures: Pakistan: caught between ancient and modern life
From France to Pakistan to China, many have voiced expectations that John Kerry's vast experience and diplomatic skill will be a boon to dealing with international crises and issues.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has been one of the US’s most popular and peripatetic secretaries of state – logging nearly 1 million miles in four years and becoming a household name from Panama to Pakistan.
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Space-Photos-of-the-Day/Exploring-Mars-with-Curiosity
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/A-chance-to-pray-at-the-Western-Wall
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-day-05-09
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Making-it-in-Japan
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Mothers-of-the-world
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/What-happened-at-the-US-Consulate-in-Libya
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-day-05-08
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Istanbul-A-tale-of-two-cities
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Pakistan-caught-between-ancient-and-modern-life
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Russians-vs.-Putin
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Africa-s-Hot-Spots
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-day-05-07
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/France-matters
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Bugged-in-Biblical-Proportions
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Neo-nazis-nationalists-and-right-wing-extremists
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Boston-heals-after-the-Boston-Marathon-bombings
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Postcard-Boston
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-Day-05-06
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-Day-05-04
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-day-05-03
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Guantanamo-Bay-still-in-operation
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Off-to-the-races!-The-Triple-Crown
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Walking-on-Wall-Street
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-day-05-02
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Wildfires-2013
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-day-05-01
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Goodbye-UK!-Scotland-s-bid-for-independence
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-day-04-30
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/The-kings-and-queens-of-modern-monarchies
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-Day-04-29