The 2009 World's Most Powerful Women

Forbes most powerful women list 2009 revealed.
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The Fccount women in politics, business, the news, and even the entertainment industry in order to decide the world's most powerful women. The Forbes most powerful women list is comprised using a number of factors, including visibility and the size of the organization or country these women lead. For the fourth consecutive year, the most powerful woman in the world is German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Leader of the worlds' fourth largest economy, Angela Merkel is a well-respected leader, and again chosen as the Forbes most powerful woman in the world.
The second most powerful woman in the world is Sheila Bair, who is the Chairman for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the United States. Being Chairman of the FDIC is no easy job, and Sheila Bair has not only had to fight for respect, but for the FDIC to retain power in a struggling economy. Following Bair in the list of most powerful women in the world is Indra Nooyi, who serves as Chief Executive Officer at PepsiCo. Cynthia Carroll is the fourth most powerful woman on the list, serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Anglo American in Britain. The large mining company is one of the largest in the world, and Carroll oversees the company's interests in platinum, coal, gold, industrial minerals and diamonds.

Iran 'minister' on Interpol list

Iran's defence minister-designate is on an Interpol "wanted" list over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina, the agency has confirmed.
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BBC NEWS: It says it has had a "red notice" for Ahmad Vahidi since 2007 over the Buenos Aires attack that killed 85 people.
Interpol uses red notices to inform its 187 member countries that an arrest warrant has been issued for an individual by a judicial authority.
Israel and Argentina have expressed concern over Mr Vahidi's nomination.
"This is yet another of [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad's actions that prove he is a person you cannot deal with," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Andy David told Bloomberg.
"It's significant, this nomination, but no surprising," Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman told the Associated Press.
"Iran has always protected terrorists, giving them government posts, but I think never one as high as this one," he said.
Tehran rejected the criticism as a "Zionist plot".
Iranian lawmakers still have to confirm the 21-member cabinet proposed on Wednesday by Mr Ahmadinejad - the declared winner of June's disputed presidential elections.
But the nomination of Mr Vahidi is another sign of Mr Ahmadinejad's defiance of the West, the BBC's Caroline Hawley says.
'Key participant'
Interpol says that Mr Vahidi has been on its "red notice" list since November 2007.
The move to publish the notice for Mr Vahidi - along with five other people - followed a request by the Argentine authorities.
Mr Vahidi - who was deputy defence minister during Mr Ahmadinejad's first term in office - is accused of involvement in the bombing of the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires.
It was the worst attack on a Jewish target outside Israel since World War II.
Mr Nisman said that Mr Vahidi, who led a unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard known as the Quds Force at the time of the attack, was accused of "being a key participant in the planning and of having made the decision to go ahead with the attack" against the AMIA.
"It has been demonstrated that Vahidi participated in and approved of the decision to attack AMIA during the meeting in Iraq on 14 August 1993", the prosecutor said.
Iran on Friday rejected Argentina's allegations.
"How come they didn't bring it up in the past?" President Ahmadinejad's press adviser, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, told the AFP.
"Mr Vahidi was a deputy defence minister and this is very senior political position. Therefore it seems that this is a new trick being planned and is basically a Zionist plot," he added.
Interpol says it uses "red notices" - or international-wanted persons alerts - to inform its members that an arrest warrant has been issued for an individual by a judicial authorities.
Interpol says that the individuals concerned are wanted by national jurisdictions and Interpol's role is to assist national police.
It stresses that its notices are not international warrants.