Rated Top Ten

BBC News reports here: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has topped a list of the most powerful women in the world for the second year.

The Top Ten Most Powerful Women are:
1. Angela Merkel (German chancellor)
2. Wu Yi (Chinese vice-premier)
3. Ho Ching (Temasek Holdings)
4. Condoleezza Rice (US Secretary of State)
5. Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo)
6. Sonia Gandhi (Indian National Congress Party)
7. Cynthia Carroll (Anglo American)
8. Patricia Wortz (Archer Daniels Midland)
9. Irene Rosenfeld (Kraft Foods)
10. Patricia Russo (Alcatel-Lucent)

The Top Ten Movies available on Blu-ray from the Bestellers List at Amazon, see more details of all The Top Ten Movies available on Blu-ray here in our store (ranking as of writing of this article, might change over time)

The Top Ten Movies available on Blu-ray This Week are:

• 300 [Blu-ray]
• Casino Royale [Blu-ray]
• Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest [Blu-ray]
• Pirates of the Caribbean – The Curse of the Black Pearl [Blu-ray]
• The Fifth Element (Remastered) [Blu-ray]
• Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series [Blu-ray]
• Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto [Blu-ray]
• The Departed [Blu-ray]
• Spider-Man – The High Definition Trilogy
• Cars [Blu-ray]

Spiegel online reports here: London is passé. Berlin has missed the boat. A fierce competition has broken out among Europe’s leading cities for a new, creative class of urban professionals. SPIEGEL tells you where they are heading. The answers may surprise you.

The Washington Post reports here: Apple’s market-leading iTunes online music store took a one-two punch yesterday as heavyweight rivals stepped up their efforts to unseat the king of digital music.

The Top Ten Most Sold Home Theater Systems this week at Amazon, see The Top Ten Most Sold Home Theater Systems here for more info including some reader reviews in our online store (ranking as of writing of this article, might change over time) 

 
The Top Ten Home Theater Systems are:

• Onkyo HT-SR800 7.1 Home Theater Entertainment System
• Polk Audio RM6750 5.1 Channel Home Theater Speaker System, Black Finish
• Sony BRAVIA DAV-HDX500 Theater System
• Sony BRAVIA DAV-HDX265 Home Theater System
• Onkyo SKS-HT540 7.1 Surround Sound Speaker System
• Sony BRAVIA DAV-HDX267W Theater System with Wireless Speaker Kit
• Onkyo HT-S907 7.1 Channel Component Home Theater Audio System
• Samsung HT-X50 DVD Home Theater System
• Philips HTS3555 Home Theater System with iPod Connectivity (Black)
• Sony SSC-R3000 Center and Rear Channel Speaker Package

CNN News reports here: A visit to the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty and the Pyramids is on the itinerary of most jet-setting travelers.

THE TOP TEN MOST DISAPPOINTING GLOBAL SIGHTS:

1. The Eiffel Tower, Paris; 2. The Louvre, Paris; 3. Times Square, New York; 4. Las Ramblas, Barcelona; 5. Statue of Liberty, New York; 6. Spanish Steps, Rome; 7. The White House, Washington DC; 8. The Pyramids, Egypt; 9. The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin; 10.The Leaning Tower of Pisa.

THE TOP TEN BEST GLOBAL SIGHTS:

1. The Treasury at Petra, Jordan; 2. The Grand Canal, Venice; 3. The Masai Mara, Kenya; 4. Sydney Harbour Bridge; 5. Taroko Gorge, Taiwan; 6. Kings Canyon, Northern Territory, Australia; 7. Cappadoccia caves, Turkey; 8. Lake Titicaca, Peru and Bolivia; 9. Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia; 10. Jungfraujoch railway, Switzerland.

Top Ten George W Bush Moments

AP reports here at Yahoo News: It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday — and whose future is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads.

The Top Ten HDTV Plasma TVs in this week’s Bestellers List at Amazon, see The Top Ten HDTV Plasma TVs here for more info including some customer reviews in our online store (ranking as of writing of this article, might change over time)

The Top Ten HDTV Plasma TVs are:

• Samsung HPT5054 50″ Plasma HDTV
• Samsung HPT5064 50″ Plasma HDTV
• Samsung FPT5084 50″ 1080p Plasma HDTV
• Samsung HPT4254 42″ Plasma HDTV
• Samsung HPT4264 42″ Plasma HDTV
• Akai PDP4294 42″ Plasma Flat Panel EDTV
• Pioneer PDP-4270HD PureVision 42″ Plasma HDTV
• Panasonic TH-42PX60U 42″ Plasma HDTV
• Panasonic TH-58PX60U 58″ Plasma HDTV
• Samsung PPM42M5S 42″ EDTV-Ready Flat-Panel Plasma TV