• In any case, it would come as no shock to a man or woman of the world to discover that doubtful loans were significantly higher than the sums officially acknowledged.

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  • Also they showed images in clear detail, hence the elegant print of a woman gazing down upon the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

    ECONOMIST: The daguerreotype is back

  • Not just in politics--the country's dominant political party, the National Congress Party, is, after all, headed by Sonia Gandhi, a woman who made our ranking of the World's Most Powerful Women--but in big business, too.

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  • She's also the first black woman to become a major influence in the world of entertainment, and she rightfully receives loads of praise for it.

    CNN: Review: 'Beloved' is loud Oprah vehicle to Oscar

  • The oldest person who ever lived was Louise Calment of France, a woman who topped 122 years, the Guinness Book of World Records reports.

    CNN: World's second-oldest man known dies at 113

  • Mr Rowan had told the jury he went to the News of the World to "protect" another woman, Fiona McGuire, who the newspaper thought was having an affair with Mr Sheridan, and gave the paper the name of Katrine Trolle.

    BBC: Tommy Sheridan begins own defence in perjury trial

  • While the rest of the papers are falling over themselves to cover the launch of Apple's new iPod video, the Sun brings us news of another radical innovation in the MP3 world - the possibility of a music player being implanted in a woman's breasts.

    BBC: 10 THINGS WE DIDN'T KNOW THIS TIME LAST WEEK

  • What emerges is a woman who, though officially part of the male world, never conformed to it.

    ECONOMIST: Gertrude Bell

  • In the cities of the rich world no woman is expected to wear a garment until it is worn out. (Men, unaccountably, tend to hold on to their clothes for years, but the industry is working on the problem.) The clothes industry would be in a pickle without a constant supply of clients dissatisfied with the contents of their wardrobes.

    ECONOMIST: Bonnie Cashin

  • So it is all the more surprising to learn that not only is she a test pilot for one of the world's biggest aircraft manufacturers, she is the only woman in France holding such a position.

    BBC: Working Lives Toulouse: Test pilot

  • On one end was the husband of a woman who died aboard United Airlines Flight 175, which plowed into the World Trade Center.

    FORBES: Ouija TV

  • And Barry George, 48, told the News of the World he could not have killed Miss Dando because he was following another woman at the time.

    BBC: Stalking made me suspect - George

  • Mr. ALEXANDER: I'd like this book to really give black women something to celebrate themselves in which they should walk away with lot of pride about the diversity of their beauty and the diversity of their hair as something that--I think when a black woman comes into the world, hair is something that is discussed in her life very early on.

    NPR: 'Queens': Black Women, Fabulous Hair

  • Hillary, the second most powerful woman in the world, made history as one of a handful of women to ever run for U.S. president.

    FORBES: The World's Most Powerful Couples In 2012

  • Eddie Redmayne has a virginal look, and a knocked-silly amazement when the most famous woman in the world shucks her clothes in front of him and jumps into a freezing river.

    NEWYORKER: Fantastic Voyages

  • President Bill Clinton spoke of his sadness over the death of Princess Diana, the woman whose shy smile and dedication to good works captivated people around the world.

    CNN: Navigation

  • The top of the world remains a dangerous place, he says, recalling the story of an Inuit woman who had frozen to death during a recent winter snowstorm.

    NPR: Warming Eases Northwest Passage, Author Says

  • It was not until after the Second World War that another milestone was reached - the first woman was nominated at the beginning of the 1946-7 session to the Chairman's Panel which allowed her to preside over a debate of the whole House in committee, which she did on 31 May 1948.

    BBC: Women in parliament

  • It is awarded to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life".

    BBC: West Wing star Anna Deavere Smith wins top arts prize

  • Another woman clambers from a bus lugging a sack of flour donated by the World Food Programme.

    ECONOMIST: Eking a living from handouts

  • One morning in Nimoo I say jullay (hello) and smile at a lovely older woman--Ladakh boasts some of the most beautiful women in the world--who is heading out to work the dikes.

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  • According to BRW, a weekly business magazine, Gina Rinehart became the richest woman in Australia in 2010, the richest person in Australia in 2011, and the richest woman in the world in 2012, with an estimated net worth of nearly thirty billion dollars.

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  • And we must make it clear to every man, woman and child around the world who lives under the dark cloud of tyranny that America will speak out on behalf of their human rights, and tend to the light of freedom and justice and opportunity and respect for the dignity of all peoples.

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  • Israeli Jewish women have the highest fertility rate in the Western world with an average of three children per woman.

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  • Queen Elizabeth II, 86, the twenty-sixth most powerful woman in the world, only became a monarch because she was one of two girls.

    FORBES: Kate Middleton Is Pregnant: Will She Give Birth To The Next Queen Of England?

  • Journalists on the scene have said that three people, one of them a woman, were killed in a crush for tickets for the World Cup qualifier between Guinea and Morocco.

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  • One result is a fertility rate, 1.5 births per woman, more typical of rich countries than of what Cuba still is, the third world.

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  • Unidentified Woman: (Singing) I climbed the peaks of glass with you and walked a world of brass with you.

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  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who in the 1960s became the world's first woman to be elected prime minister, died of a heart attack after voting, presumably for the party led by her daughter, the president.

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