US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (C) poses with his maternal grandparents Stanley and Madelyn Dunham in an undated family snapshot released by his presidential campaign February 4, 2008. Madelyn Dunham died of cancer, Obama said in a statement on November 3, 2008, a little more than a week after he interrupted the White House race to say goodbye to her in Hawaii. [Agencies]

(China Daily via agencies November 4, 2008)