The US president, Barack Obama, left, and the British prime minister, David Cameron, right, eat a hot dog as they watch the first half at UD Arena as the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers take on the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils in the first round of the 2011 NCAA men’s basketball tournament in Dayton, Ohio on Tuesday.— AFP photo

The British prime minister, David Cameron, skipped aboard Air Force One Tuesday and chomped on a hot dog alongside the president, Barack Obama, at the start of his official visit to the United States.
Obama gave Cameron an initiation to life on the US side of the Atlantic by whisking him away to Ohio to watch the first game of the annual NCAA college basketball tournament, in a bid to showcase the bond between the two men.
It was the first time this president had invited a foreign leader on his iconic blue and white jet, and a White House aide said they two men spent the entire flight cloistered in Obama’s mid-air office.