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...German companies surveyed are women, compared with 52% at the American companies in the poll and 48% at the Spanish firms. Moreover, only 6% of chief executives in Germany are women, compared with 12% in Norway. And just one of Germany's DAX-listed companies has a woman on its board: Siemens, which appointed Barbara Kux to its eight-person executive committee in 2008. (See the worst business deals...
...Only time will tell if Deutsche Telekom's quota will inspire other companies to enact similar policies - or push the government to implement more family friendly laws to help women break through the glass ceiling. Until then, Germany does have at least one high-powered woman calling the shots - the one they call Chancellor...
...conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and plotting to murder a Swedish cartoonist whose depiction of the Prophet Muhammad had angered Muslims. LaRose, 46, had been in custody since October. Assistant Attorney General for National Security David Kris said the suspect's being a suburban American woman "underscores the evolving nature of the threat we face...
...intersection Matsumoto sells a young mother soy milk and then he delivers eight packs of tofu to an elderly woman at her flower-lined house. Down the street, a fashionable young couple purchases tofu paste, tofu soup and a bag of tofu puddings, then excitedly snaps a photo with Matsumoto. "Rainy days, sunny days, I don't care," he says. "Business is always good...
...advice of astrologers, he also shot his reflection in a mirror to foil anyone plotting his assassination and rode on a rocking horse inside a plane that circled a pagoda nine times. Burma's feared former intelligence chief Gen. Khin Nyunt was rumored to have dressed up as a woman to perform black magic ceremonies, known as yadaya che in Burmese, supposedly to sap the power of his female archrival democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (See pictures of Burma's slowly shifting landscape...