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Student was 'gobsmacked' when Meghan Markle asked to take a picture with her for Michelle Obama

Nelson Mandela University student Sithembele Ncube, 25, was invited to meet Prince Harry, 35, and Meghan during a reception at the British High Commissioner's home in Cape Town on Tuesday.




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Barack and Michelle Obama share touching messages to each other on their 27th anniversary

Former President Barack Obama, 58, and former first lady Michelle, 55, tied the knot on October 3, 1992. Both wished the other a happy anniversary on Twitter and Instagram today.




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Michelle Obama to release a journal companion to her bestselling memoir Becoming at $20 a copy

Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice will hit bookshelves on November 19 said Penguin Random House in a press release, almost one year after the Michelle Obama memoir.




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Michelle Obama and Jenna Bush Hager are going to Vietnam together

The former first lady, 55, celebrated the United Nations-declared day of observance by announcing that in December, she and Today's Jenna, 37, will travel to Vietnam with a Today crew.




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The Obamas make the list of 100 most powerful people in entertainment

Barack and Michelle Obama are new entries on The Hollywood Reporter's 100 most powerful people in entertainment, thanks to their foray into the film making industry and a deal signed with Netflix.




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HEALTH NOTES: Michelle Obama gives followers the feel-good factor

Encouraging girls to follow inspirational women like Michelle Obama on social media could help protect their mental health, research led by a University of Cambridge psychologist claims.




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Michelle Obama posts a workout selfie from the gym

Former US First Lady, Michelle Obama (pictured), has opened up about her fitness regime and asked other women to share how they 'take care' of themselves in a gym selfie.




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Michelle Obama fights back tears as she thanks military caregivers at emotional gala

Former first lady Michelle Obama won the Hidden Heroes Champion award at a military gala on Wednesday night and fought back tears as she thanked 'unsung' military caregivers




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'I can't make people not afraid of black people': Michelle Obama addresses racism in the US

Michelle Obama spoke says when her family - and other black families - moved to the South Side of Chicago in the 1970s, white families started moving out. 




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'Dad wasn't there to walk me down the aisle': Michelle Obama reveals wedding day sadness

Speaking at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, the former first lady described her wedding in October 1992 to Barack Obama as 'hard' and 'bittersweet' following the death of her father.




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Michelle Obama receives Grammy nomination for her best-selling memoir 'Becoming'

Having already been crowned the 'World's Most Admired Women' this year, securing victory in the at next year's Grammy's would cap a fine 18 months for Michelle Obama.




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'From our family to yours': Obamas post sun-kissed family Thanksgiving photo

Former First Lady Michelle Obama posted a photo on Twitter showing her; her husband, former President Barack Obama; and their two daughters, Sasha and Malia, vacationing in a tropical setting.




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Julia Roberts and Michelle Obama are teaming up in an effort to empower and educate girls in Asia

Julia Roberts and Michelle Obama are teaming up to travel to Malaysia and Vietnam and take part in an effort to empower and educate girls in December.




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Michelle Obama admits it was 'emotional' to drop youngest daughter Sasha off at college

The former first lady, 55, spoke about her family and career in a new interview. She said she tried to make it 'feel as normal as possible' when moving Sasha, 18, into the University of Michigan.




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Michelle Obama calls impeachment hearings 'surreal' during girls education trip in Vietnam

Former First Lady Michelle Obama called the impeachment hearings into Donald Trump 'surreal' on the Today show on Monday during a girls education trip in Vietnam.




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Beaming Michelle Obama and Julia Roberts chat to pupils in Vietnam ahead of conference in Malaysia 

Julia Roberts is travelling to Kuala Lumpur with Obama for the Obama Foundation's inaugural Leaders: Asia-Pacific convening in the Malaysian capital on Tuesday.




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Michelle Obama says she will 'wait to be asked' for help by the Democratic nominee

The former first lady, 55, said she and the former president will wait to see who wins the Democratic nomination before offering support.




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Michelle Obama defends her friendship with former President George W. Bush

The former first lady, 55, said that while she and Bush, 73, disagree on 'policy,' they don't disagree on 'humanity,' 'love,' or 'compassion.'




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Michelle Obama tells Greta Thunberg to 'ignore the doubters' after Trump tweets

Michelle Obama sent Greta Thunberg a public message of support on Twitter. Her tweet followed a vitriolic attack on the teenager by President Donald Trump.




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Michelle Obama announces new Instagram video series that will follow four college freshmen

The former first lady, 55, teamed up with media company ATTN: for an IGTV series called 'A Year of Firsts'.




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Barack and Michelle Obama are advising Meghan and Harry on their new life outside the Royal Family

Barack and Michelle Obama have advised the Sussexes on their plans for a new life outside the Royal Family.Harry and Meghan want to model themselves on the Obamas.




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Trump's administration cuts Michelle Obama's healthy school meal rules - on her birthday

Donald Trump's administration proposed new school lunch guidelines that would undo several healthy changes made by Michelle Obama -a move that comes on the former first lady's birthday.




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Pasta becomes a vegetable under Trump administration - hacks away at Obama-era school lunch rules 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's proposals will continue to erode Michelle Obama's legacy by easing restrictions on the types and quantities on fruit and vegetables put on the table.




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Michelle Obama reveals she went to couples therapy with Barack to work through 'tough times'

Michelle Obama admitted to Oprah Winfrey that she needed to 'make herself happy' if she wanted an equal partnership with Barack Obama. Obama spoke at an event in Brooklyn, New York.




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Barack and Michelle Obama congratulate their own production company after American Factory Oscar win

American Factory, about the decline of manufacturing jobs in the industrial Midwest, picked up the golden statue for best feature-length documentary at the Oscars on Sunday night.




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Michelle Obama shares rare denim-on-denim throwback photo from her Princeton days

The snap shows Mrs. Obama as a teenager at the Ivy League school in 1983. She said: 'If I could tell the girl in this photo one thing, it would be slow down and take a breath - you've got this.'




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Michelle Obama shares 1982 prom photo as part of new voter campaign

The 56-year-old posted the image of herself wearing a 'pink satin, polka-dotted dress' on Tuesday.




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Joe Biden tells questioner he would put Michelle Obama on the ticket 'in a heartbeat'

Former Vice President Joe Biden rallied with supporters in South Carolina, where he fielded a question about whether he would put Michelle Obama on the ticket.




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Michelle Obama enjoys Christina Aguilera's Las Vegas concert

The former First Lady of the United States attended Christina Aguilera's The Xperience concert at Planet Hollywood's Zappos Theater in Las Vegas where a male dancer twerked near her.




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Michelle Obama cancels her first rally of 2020 election

Michelle Obama's first effort to get out the vote in 2020 has been cancelled due to coronavirus concerns.




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Ellen DeGeneres chats with Michelle Obama after getting called 'one of the meanest people alive'

Though the 62-year-old talk show host seemed charming-as-ever while on the phone, days prior a viral Twitter thread left people calling Ellen 'one of the meanest people alive.'




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Coronavirus US: Michelle Obama reveals her family's daily quarantine routine

The former first lady said she and her husband, Barack, are with their daughters Malia, 21, and Sasha, 18, who are both home from college amid the global crisis.




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Stacey Solomon shocked as Michelle Obama shares tribute to her on Instagram 

The former First Lady shared a series of handwritten thank you notes to frontline workers around the world amid the coronavirus outbreak, one of which included a fan tribute to Stacey.




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Former first lady Michelle Obama reads children's books in new weekly video series

Mrs. Obama, 56, is hosting 'Mondays with Michelle' starting today, April 20. Every Monday at noon, she will read a new book love online. Choices include The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.




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Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson join Michelle Obama to make the case for mail-in voting

Michelle Obama hosted an online event on behalf of When We All Vote - a non-profit, nonpartisan organization hoping to increase participation in every election.




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Michelle Obama changed White House dress code for butlers

Michelle Obama changed the White House dress codes for butlers because she didn't want her daughters 'thinking that grown African American men serve them in tuxedos'.




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BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Jodie Comer hopes to kill off rivals in Golden Globe battle royal

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Stars of the hit Netflix drama The Crown led the British charge as nominations for the Golden Globe awards were announced yesterday.




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Matthew Perry shares throwback snap sharing laugh with Barack Obama, declares him '#ManCrushMonday'

The 50-year-old actor shared a sweet throwback snap on Monday of himself sharing a laugh with Barack Obama.




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Everton confirm £25m new boy Jean-Philippe Gbamin is out for at least two months

Everton have confirmed that new £25million signing Jean-Philippe Gbamin has suffered a thigh injury which rules him out for at least two months.




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Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Michael Bloomberg field anxious requests to run

Democrats worried about whether their front runners could beat Trump are musing about others who could run including Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Michael Bloomberg, Eric Holder and John Kerry.




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Republican senator demands all email communications between Clinton and Obama

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, sent the request to the National Archives in a letter on Thursday.




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Trump supporting Seattle cop is fired after making offensive Instagram posts about Obama and Clinton

An unnamed Seattle Police Department officer has been terminated following an internal investigation into Instagram post he made about President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.




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Obama called Donald Trump a fascist during 2016 election

Kaine, then the Democratic VP candidate, was caught on camera telling his running mate Hillary Clinton of the remark, in footage included in the new Hulu documentary about her.




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'Michelle Obama LOVED Harvey Weinstein.' Donald Trump attacks after movie mogul's rape conviction

'The people who liked him were the Democrats. Michelle Obama loved him, loved him,' the president said in New Delhi after the rapist's conviction. He claimed he was 'not a fan.'




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Michelle Obama takes the fight direct to Donald Trump after he attacked her

Michelle Obama will hit the campaign trail next month when she hosts a get-out-the-vote rally in Detroit, Michigan, a state key to President Trump's re-election efforts.




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Bin Laden wanted to kill Obama because he thought Joe Biden was totally unprepared to be president

Declassified documents seized from Bin Laden's Pakistan compound as he was killed in May 2011 reveal his plans to throw the U.S. 'into a crisis' by killing Obama and leaving Joe Biden in charge.




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Concerns grow over 'disproportionate impact' of coronavirus on BAME community

People from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities are two to three times more likely to die from coronavirus, new analysis by University College London today suggests.




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BAME NHS workers on Covid-19 frontline should ask ask to be moved says Dame Donna Kinnair

BAME staff working on the front lines of the NHS should ask to move if they feel endangered, the chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing has said. It comes after a popular pharmacist died last month.




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Jimmy Kimmel creates mash up of Obama-Trump addresses

Jimmy Kimmel created a mash up of Trump and Obama's televised national addresses following the killings of the Al Qaeda and ISIS leaders.




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Barack Obama welcomed leader of US embassy attack at the White House

Hadi al Amiri joined Iraq's then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as his Minister for Transport when he stood in the Oval Office in December 2011.