Get Your Souvenirs

Souvenirs of US President-elect Barack Obama (R) are on sale January 7, 2009, in Washington, DC. Obama will be sworn in as President on January 20.

Who Do We Have Here?

President-elect Barack Obama, followed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, stops to greet 5-year-old Cartz Metz from Rogersville, Tenn., on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Private Moment

President-elect Barack Obama and his family headed to the Oahu seaside to hold a small memorial service for his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. Obama, who fondly referred to his grandmother as "Toot," and his half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng were seen tossing flower petals into the ocean.

One for the Ladies

The president-elect on vacation in Hawaii

Family Pride

Barack Obama's grandmother, Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama, shows a campaign poster inside her house at the family's ancestral home in Kogelo, a village west of Nairobi

Out of Many

Dapper

Barack Obama from 1980 while attending Occidental College in Los Angeles

Headlines from Around the World

Celebrating in Italy

Grandparents for Obama Steering Committee member Bruce Little in St Marks Square, Venice, Italy, November 5.