About time!
The University of Cambridge emerged victorious for the second successive year in the latest league table of global academic institutions.
Mohamed A. Mohamed once again holds down his comfortable desk job at the New York State Department of Transportation in Buffalo. He’s glad to have a semblance of normal life back after his grueling previous job – as Somalia’s prime minister.
Did you hear something shatter? Yingluck Shinawatra has just kicked through Thailand’s glass ceiling.
“We are intensely aware that we are and must be the government of all Canadians, including those that did not vote for us.” – STEPHEN HARPER, Canadian Prime Minister, after his Conservative Party earned the majority of seats in the Canadian Parliament during Monday’s election (via The Globe and Mail)
In advance of the Canadian federal election on May 2, women across the icy-cold country who once voted Conservative are banding together online to give Prime Minister Stephen Harper the boot. Ouch.
Will Meryl Streep’s decision to star in the Margaret Thatcher biopic pay off with a long-awaited Oscar?
There is a new threat to the U.K Prime Minister’s security — rats.
Naoto Kan became the second Japanese prime minister to visit the iconic World War II battlefield of Iwo Jima Tuesday. He came to pay his respects to the more than 21,000 Japanese soldiers who lost their lives on the Pacific island—many whose bodies are only now being recovered.
“Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior” -Manmohan Singh, prime minister of India, addressing business leaders in the wake of a massive telecom scandal (via WSJ)
