Top 10 powerful women of world

SINGAPORE—German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the most powerful woman in the world while Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi has risen to second place in Forbes’ magazine’s annual list, the company said in a statement on Friday.
“Merkel continued to impress the world with her cool leadership at two back-to-back summits, and stuck to her principles, getting G8 leaders to agree to significant cuts in carbon emissions, among other things,” Forbes said. The magazine said the ranking is based on a composite of visibility - measured by press citations - and economic impact. The biggest mover on this year’s list was Ho Ching - chief executive of Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings and wife of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong - who jumped to third place from 36th last year, trumping U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who fell from second to fourth place.
World’s 10 most powerful women in 2007 according to Forbes:
Name Title Country. 1 Angela Merkel Chancellor Germany. 2 Wu Yi Vice premier China. 3 Ho Ching CEO, Temasek Holdings Singapore. 4 Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State U.S.. 5 Indra K. Nooyi Chairman, CEO, PepsiCo U.S. 6 Sonia Gandhi Political party chief India. 7 Cynthia Carroll CEO, Anglo American U.K. 8 Patricia A. Woertz Cochairman, ADM U.S. 9 Irene Rosenfeld Chairman, CEO, Kraft Foods U.S. 10 Patricia Russo CEO, Alcatel-Lucent U.S.—Agencies