Breaking News English

The most admired woman in the is Hillary Rodham Clinton, to the annual USA Today-Gallup poll. America’s Secretary of State the for the ninth year in a row. US President Barack Obama was the most admired man for the third year. Sarah Palin came in second place and Oprah Winfrey in third. Ms Clinton has been in the most admired woman top ten 15 times since 1992. She first after husband Bill Clinton became president. President Barack Obama’s Michelle came fourth in the poll. Unsurprisingly, only three -American women made the top ten. These were Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The survey asked people what man and woman, living in the world, they most admired. It is always by Americans. It is that President Obama still came top, his slump in his approval ratings and the poor of the US economy. His lead has slipped to previous years. In 2008 he led the list with 32 per cent, in 2009 30 per cent and this year 22 per cent. The other three places for men were taken by former US presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The only non-American males in the were former South African president Nelson Mandela and Pope Benedict XVI. It would be interesting to see how the poll might change if it was given to from all over the world.