Beyonce, Oprah on the 2015 list of 12 most powerful women on the planet

According to Business Insider, there are 12 women who currently command the most influence and authority in the world! The list was taken from top leaders in politics, business, technology and entertainment. Their influence was evaluated based on metrics in areas such as economic power, command , impact and newsworthiness.

12. Isabel Dos Santos

Age 42

Businesswoman and investor, Angola

11.Meg Whitman

Age 59

CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, chair of HP Inc. USA

10. Hillary Clinton

Age 68

Former US Secretary of State, 2016 presidential candidate, USA

09. Beyoncé

Age 34

Singer from the USA

08. Ginni Rometty

Age 58

CEO of IBM , USA

07. Park Geun-hye

Age 63

President of South Korea

06. Oprah Winfrey

Age 61

CEO, OWN from USA

05. Christine Lagarde

Age 59

Managing Director of the IMF from France

04.Dilma Rouseff

Age 67

President of Brazil

03. Abigail Johnson

Age 53

CEO of Fidelity

02. Janet Yellen

Age 69

Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. USA

01.Angela Merkel

Age 61

Chancellor of Germany

Will Smith admits his marriage has been “excruciating” at times.

Hollywood star Will Smith has confessed his marriage has been “excruciating” at times.

The 47-year-old actor has been married to fellow Hollywood star Jada Pinkett Smith since 1997, and has revealed their relationship has been “grueling”.

He shared: “We’ve been married 20 years and we’ve been asking ourselves [what’s the secret to marriage] and really at the end of the day it’s just not quitting.

“You can’t expect it to be easy. It’s like our marriage was the most difficult, grueling, excruciating thing that we have ever taken on in our lives. And you know we’re just not quitters.”

Will also revealed what he considers to be the secret to maintaining a good marriage.

The actor – who shares 17-year-old son Jaden and 15-year-old daughter Willow with his wife – told Entertainment Tonight: “I would say is that we never went into working on our relationship.

“We only ever worked on ourselves individually, and then presented ourselves to one another better than we were previously.”

The duo have been the subject of numerous divorce rumours in recent months and in August, Will took to Facebook to rubbish the speculation.

He wrote: “So, in the interest of redundant, repetitious, over & over-again-ness… Jada and I are…NOT GETTING A DIVORCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sic)”

Indonesian district to ban condoms in convenience stores

A staunchly Islamic district in Indonesia plans to ban the sale of condoms in convenience stores in a bid to halt premarital sex, an official said Tuesday, but activists criticised the move as misguided.

The local administration in Luwu on central Sulawesi island will soon send a notification to convenience stores, giving them a week to remove condoms from their shelves, district head Andi Mudzakkar said.

“We are concerned that premarital sex is on the rise among teenagers,” he told AFP from the district capital Belopa.

A week after the letters are sent, the government will raid the dozens of convenience stores in Luwu, and those caught violating the rule could be shut down, Mudzakkar said.

He said that he took the decision after noticing that condoms were sold openly in the stores and could be easily bought by youngsters.

Condom sales would still be allowed in the remote district in pharmacies but only for customers aged above 17, he said.

In many rural parts of the archipelago, convenience stores are the only retail outlets offering a sizeable range of goods.

Yakub Gunawan, an activist from the Red Institute, an NGO focusing on HIV, said the ban would not tackle “risky sexual behaviour”.

“The Luwu government should be promoting early sex education instead so teenagers will know how to be responsible and protect themselves,” he said.

Regulations to crack down on behaviour viewed as “immoral” and against Islam have multiplied across Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country — in recent years, amid signs of growing conservatism in many sectors of society.

Conservative clerics have long denounced official campaigns to encourage condom use, claiming that they encourage sex before marriage.

Earlier this year Indonesia’s top Islamic clerical body spoke out against the sale of condoms following reports that the contraceptives were being sold together with chocolate to mark Valentine’s Day.