OK, famous Forbes magazine once again published their list of The World's Most Powerful People. I love these listings.
Some changes even in TOP 3 which is traditionally considered pretty stable.
1. Barac Obama, USA
2. Angela Merkel, Germany
3. Vladimir Putin, Russian Federation 
4. Bill Gates
5. Pope
6. Bernanke
So Merkel jumped up many positions, probably due the German's growing role in EU during the economic crisis.
Putin dropped down one position, most likely because his loosing of God-like admiration and landing on surface of harsh critics known for normal politicians.
Most notable is that Chinese leader is not in top this time.
I think because they proved the paper tiger -status true with incapability of dealing with Japanese in recent island disputes.
whole list with 71 persons:
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlg45leli/1-barack-obama/ Bodybuilding related because Borack exercises probably from time to time and Vladimir is known sports-man.