US first lady Michelle Obama was named the world’s most powerful woman by Forbes magazine, toppling German Chancellor Angela Merkel after four years on top. Performance artist Lady Gaga made the top 10, coming in seventh. Merkel was relegated to the fourth position, preceded by Kraft Foods Inc chief executive Irene Rosenfeld and talk show [...]
The world’s most powerful woman is Michelle Obama, according to an index put together by business magazine Forbes. The wife of President Obama had “given a new generation of girls and women around the world a role model”, the magazine said. The Queen, Britain’s head of state and the head of a commonwealth of some [...]
The US intensified sanctions against North Korea today in a move designed to punish Pyongyang for sinking a South Korean ship and pursuing nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, announced a tightening of measures aimed at throttling North Korea’s atomic programme and choking off the supply of luxury goods to the country’s [...]
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton started a South Asia tour on Sunday aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old war in Afghanistan and pushing neighboring nations to work together in the fight against al-Qaida and Taliban extremists. Clinton landed in Islamabad where she will underscore the need for Afghan-Pakistani cooperation in [...]