Cherie Blair ranked in power list
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The prime minister's wife, Cherie Blair, is ranked the twelfth most powerful women in the world by  business magazine Forbes.
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A new opinion poll offered decidedly mixed news for British Prime Minister Tony Blair: while he looks set to win the next election, his finance minister and arch rival Gordon Brown is now a more popular choice as premier.
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Here are some key moments in Tony Blair's years as prime minister:
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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel tops Forbes magazine's list of the world's 100 most powerful women for the second year in a row, while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice slipped to fourth from second last year.
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British leader Tony Blair on Sunday became the longest-serving Labour prime minister, holding down the top job for 2,838 days and with no intention of letting go just yet.
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At the end of a week that saw a senior cabinet minister resign amid scandal, a new poll gives British Prime Minister Tony Blair ( news - web sites )'s Labour party a five-percentage-point lead over the ...
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LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has seen his ruling Labour Party slip to third place in a newspaper poll on the eve of its annual conference.
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BusinessWeek Online - The nearly 10-year reign of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is coming to an end. The longtime leader of the Labour Party has been publicly humiliated by members of his own party and government. On Sept. 6, eight junior figures in his government resigned. "It is with the greatest sadness that I have to say that I no longer believe that your remaining in office is in the interest of either the party or the country," wrote one, Tom Watson, a non-Cabinet-level defense minister.
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Sir Ian McKellen _ Gandalf to 'Lord of the Rings' fans _ rose further in status Saturday as he joined the elite circle of Britain's Companions of Honor.Kylie Minogue rivaled McKellen for attention as Britain announced Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's Honors list. The Australian pop diva was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE.Companion of Honor is the top honor in the British system, limited to 65 living people. It was the latest addition to the list of honors collected by Mckellen, 68, who was knighted in 1991. Read more
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Businesswomen perform strongly in a list of the world's 100 most powerful women compiled by Forbes magazine.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were the guests of honor at the palatial villa in Sardinia of Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, who took the couple for a ride on his yacht before hosting them for dinner.
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"Clearly Sarkozy is setting the economic agenda"  She's French. She's female. And she is causing quite a stir. Christine Lagarde, the first woman finance minister for a G-8 nation, was rated the best minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government last month by one of France's top-selling newspapers. Not bad for a political newcomer who only two years ago was unknown outside legal and business circles, and who is vocally pro-market in a capitalism-wary nation.It hasn't always been this easy.In 1980s Paris, a law firm in the French capital told the young female applicant her sex disqualified her from high office. So Lagarde turned to Chicago-based law firm Baker &amp; McKenzie, where she went on to become the firm's first female director in 1999. Read more
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LONDON: Never mind Posh and Becks. The Tony and Cherie show takes centrestage, albeit in nudge-nudge-wink-wink fashion, as a close friend of the Blairs reveals âdomestic strainâ nearly led the prime minister to resign this summer.
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The Queen has been voted the Greatest Living Briton. She beat Sir Paul McCartney, Dame Julie Andrews, Baroness Thatcher and Robbie Williams to the award at the first "Greatest Britons 2007" ceremony on Monday ... via Daily Express
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The Middle East negotiating Quartet has appointed former British prime minister Tony Blair as its representative, the United Nations announced on Wednesday.
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Here are the key points so far of Prime Minister Tony Blair's monthly media conference.
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As the flamboyant Cherie Blair leaves Downing Street, hereâs what we can expect from her self-effacing successor.