Forbes lists Barack Obama as the world’s most powerful person
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Turbo in Buzz
Forbes Magazine lists US President Barack Obama as the world’s most powerful man. Forbes magazine today released world’s most powerful people and Obama tops the list of world’s most powerful people.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is third most powerful man, the Vatican Pope Benedict XVI is the 11th most powerful, Mike Duke (Wal-Mart CEO) is the 8th most powerful and media superstar Oprah Winfrey the 45th most powerful.
Forbes compiled the list of World’s Most Powerful People for the first time. The editors were asked to compile based on their studies if the person can influence others, the financial resources he can have control on and also studied if a person was powerful in several spheres.
Forbes made a list of 67 world’s most powerful people with an equation of 1:100 million. Here’s is the list of top 10 world’s most powerful people:
US President, Barack Obama
Chinese President, Hu Jintao
Russian President, Vladimir Putin
US Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke
Google Men, Sergey Brin and Larry Page
Mexican Communications behemoth, Carlos Slim Helu
Rupert Murdoch
Wal-Mart’s Mike Duke
Saudi Arabian Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud
Microsoft founder, Bill Gates
Angelina Jolie Tops Jennifer Aniston as the highest earning actress- Forbes
Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Turbo in Buzz
Angelina Jolie seems to be enjoying a great ride as she tops being the highest earning actress in Hollywood.
Angelina made 2 million USD over and above what Jennifer Aniston made.
According to Forbes, during the last 12 months’ time from 2008 to 2009 June Jolie made $27 million. Major chunk of her earnings came from her last year’s action movie Wanted and Aniston made $25 million during this time period, just behind Angelina Jolie.
Meryl Streep who gave an award winning performance in Doubt was at third for earning $24 million and she is followed by Sarah Jessica Parker and Cameron Diaz who made $23 and $20 millions, respectively.
