Obama tops Forbes world's most powerful people list
U.S. President Barack Obama leads "Forbes" magazine's list of
the world's most powerful people for the second year in a row,
followed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Radio Liberty reported.
The list contains 71 names, a figure "Forbes" said it chose because
there are an estimated 7.1 billion people in the world and thus the
ranking works out to one very heavy hitter for every 100 million
people.
Also among the top spots are Microsoft founder and philantropist
Bill Gates and Pope Benedict XVI, and two bankers -- U.S. Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and European Bank President Mario
Draghi.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and two politicians, British premier
David Cameron and Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi
Jinping, complete the top 10.
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