Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President Obama’s pick, is the new President of the World Bank.
Dr. Kim won the support of the 25-member Board of the World Bank on 16 April, following a first-ever open and unusually fierce public challenge from two other candidates from Nigeria and Colombia, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Jose Antonio Ocampo.
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You might not guess who was voted the three most popular Women of the Year, in France. I did not; and, you might be similarly surprised, at the results below.
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The picture spoke volumes, instantly re-broadcast as it hit the wires.
The first American Secretary of state in almost fifty years (Secretary of state John Foster Dulles paid a visit to the country, then under British rule, in 1955), greeting the iconic opposition leader of Myanmar, or Burma.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia has won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced today from Oslo, along with peace activist Leymah Gbowee, also from Liberia, and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner.
Former IMF Head Dominique Strauss-Kahn on August 29 took a last bow, and bid farewell to the International Monetary Fund staff, in downtown Washington.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or DSK as he is known, was forced to resign from his post in the aftermath of a highly publicized sexual assault case in a French-owned hotel in New York. The criminal case was ultimately dismissed by the city’s District Attorney, who argued that Nafissatou Diallo,...
