Bereavement

Barack Obama, 47, wept last night over the death of his beloved grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, 86. She died peacefully in her sleep with his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng at her side.
Madelyn lost a long battle with cancer. She and Obama's late granddad Stanley, who were both white, raised him from the age of ten in their tiny apartment in Hawaii after his mother moved to Indonesia.