Obama is a powerful one...

                                           Obama tops the Forbes’ list

Reuters

Feb, 10

            Forbes magazine has recently added Nobel Peace prize winner US president Barack Obama on the top of the lists of world’s most powerful people. Obama has topped the list that also features Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

          ‘Forbes’ said it had narrowed he list to 67 people, “a number based on the conceit that one can reduce the world’s 6.7 billion people to the one in every 100 million that matters”.

 “The goal in compiling this list is to expose power and not glorify it and overtime reveal how influence isn’t is easily lost as it is hard to gain” the magazine said.

           World and industry leaders dominated the top 10 of the list, which Forbes said was assessed on the number of people the person influences their ability to project power beyond their immediate sphere of influence, their control of financial resources an how actively that person wields power.

        Magazine had placed British Prime minister at number 29 while Queen Elizabeth didn’t deserve any place in the list. Magazine has announced top 10 powerful persons as following:

·        US president Barack Obama

·        Chinese president Hu Jintao

·        Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin

·        US federal reserve chairman Ben Bernanke

·        Google founder Sergey Brin and Larry Page

·        Carlos Slim, chief executive of Mexico’s Telmex

·        Rupert Murdoch, chairman of media group news corp.

·        Michael T. Duke, chief executive Walmart stores

·        Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz

·        Bill Gates, Co-chairman, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.