6 out of 10 people globally think Obama is most trusted world leader: Poll

October 9th, 2009 BRUSSELS - The decision to award this year's Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama is a tribute to his drive for a nuclear-free world, the head of the European Commission said Friday. "The award of the prize to President Obama, leader of the most significant military power in the world, at the beginning of his mandate, is a reflection of the hopes he has raised globally with his vision of a world without nuclear weapons," said Jose Manuel Barroso.

October 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Step aside, Germany and France. There's a new brand leader among world powers-good old US of A - according to new poll.

September 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US Secret Service is investigating an online poll published on the internet networking site Facebook, which asked if President Barack Obama should be assassinated, media reports said. The member's poll, titled "Should Obama be killed?" was taken down Monday, ABC television network reported.

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - According to a British opinion poll, the public's trust in politicians and business leaders has dipped after the revelation of the MPs' expenses scandal and the multi-billion pound assistance provided to leading banks. The survey by Ipsos MORI found that only 13 percent people believe politicians tell the truth, down from 21 percent last year, while 82 percent think they lie, an increase of nearly 10 percent over last year's figures.

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - A recent poll has suggested that British voters think Tory leader David Cameron would make a better Prime Minister than Gordon Brown. According to the ICM survey for the News of the World, some 43 per cent voters said that Cameron was the best choice, while just 20 per cent believe that Brown is the best man for the job out of the current three main party leaders.

September 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama's overall approval rating has only dipped a couple percentage points in August. In the latest CBS News poll released Tuesday night, the president's overall approval rating is 56 percent, which is down two points from the last poll taken at the end of July.

August 28th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Only four percent Israelis consider the policies of President Barack Obama as pro-Israel, a Smith Research poll conducted by The Jerusalem Post has revealed. More than half (51 percent) of Jewish Israelis consider Obama's administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel, according to the survey, while 35 percent consider it neutral.

August 28th, 2009 Poll: Americans support Obama on energy issuesWASHINGTON — A new poll says most Americans support the way President Barack Obama is dealing with energy issues, including his plan to limit greenhouse gases with a controversial cap-and-trade approach. A Washington Post-ABC News poll published Friday finds that while support is slipping for the president's heath-care proposals, support for his changes in energy policy remains firm.

August 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Most Pakistanis hate the Taliban as much as they consider United States as their enemy, a recent opinion poll has reveled. According to Pew Global Attitudes poll about 70 percent of Pakistanis are now against the Taliban's violent policies.

July 18th, 2009 Obama praises Cronkite as icon who will be missedWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday praised Walter Cronkite as a journalistic icon, calling the CBS anchor the "voice of certainty in an uncertain world," who will be truly missed. Cronkite, 92, died Friday night at his Manhattan home.

June 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama inspires the most confidence as compared to any other contemporary political leader in the world, according to a new poll by an international public opinion network. Sixty-One percent of respondents in some 20 countries have expressed confidence that Obama would "do the right thing regarding world affairs", showed the poll conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a global network working on public opinion on international issues.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - The average Briton only has three true friends, concludes a new survey. ost people in the survey claimed to have 16 friends, but 48 per cent admit most of those people are friends 'out of habit'.

April 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two-thirds Americans fully trust President Barack Obama's ability to take right decision for the problems faced by the United States, according to a poll. Just three months into his presidency, Barack Obama already stands out as the most trusted figure in American politics, the Politico reports.

March 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - As President Barack Obama heads to London for the G-20 economic summit, most Europeans are excited at the prospect of his arrival personally. Obama was the most popular and most influential world leader in a February Harris Interactive survey of 6,299 adults in Western Europe and the United States, topping the Dalai Lama in popularity and Russia's Vladimir Putin in influence.

March 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's approval rating is down into the 50's for the first time since he took office, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press. Obama has a 59 percent approval rating and a 26 percent disapproval rating in the poll, which quizzed 1,308 adults by phone (including 326 who were called on their cell phone) from March 9 to 12.