India has elected the country’s first woman president after one of the bitterest political campaigns in the nation’s history.
A lawyer by training, the 72-year-old Patil was a relative unknown on the national stage whose candidacy seemed to spring from nowhere.
“It is a special moment for us women, and men of course, in our country because [...]
First woman president in India
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Nicolas Sarkozy won the presidential elections in France. The centre-right front-runner defeated his Socialist opponent, Segolene Royal, by 53-47%. His victory was followed by a few riots in central Paris and an expensive yachting holiday off Malta for the president-elect.
He famously described young delinquents in the Paris suburbs as racaille, or “rabble”.
“The French people [...]
