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PopCrunch’s 100 Hottest Women of 2011

Welcome to our third annual PopCrunch 100 Hottest Women. This is easily one of our most popular annual traditions, and in previous years we have crowned Minka Kelly (2009) and January Jones (2010) as the hottest women in the world. Read on to see who takes the top spot for 2011. 100. Carrie Underwood Carrie [...]

Germany: Debate over women executives

Germany’s ruling coalition remains divided over whether there should be new legislation requiring companies to put more women in their boardrooms.
Christian Democrat Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen has put forth a plan that would see 30 percent of executive positions in Germany’s large companies filled by women, beginning in 2013.

Serbia warned to include women in delegation

Serbia must appoint at least one woman to its PACE delegation before the start of the April session, or have its voting rights suspended. This was announced by the organization on Wednesday in Strasbourg.

Violence against women: War’s overlooked victims

Rape is horrifyingly widespread in conflicts all around the world

Corrections to this article

SHORTLY after the birth of her sixth child, Mathilde went with her baby into the fields to collect the harvest. She saw two men approaching, wearing what she says was the uniform of the FDLR, a Rwandan militia. Fleeing them she ran into another man, who beat her head with a metal bar. She fell to the ground with her baby and lay still. Perhaps thinking he had murdered her, the man went away. The other two came and raped her, then they left her for dead. …

Women with wide waists face higher cancer risk

cancerAlmost half of women have a higher risk of cancer because of their bulging waistlines. Most people think men carry more weight around their tummy, but the reality is that women are way out in front. Forty-four percent of women in England have a large waistline linked to a range of cancers and other diseases, [...]

50 Hottest Women of Twitter

Check out the hottest women to follow, many of whom like to Tweet pictures. Just sayin’. (PopCrunch)

David Hasselhoff confesses ‘he is dating two women’

david hasselhoff1David Hasselhoff has admitted that he is currently dating two different women – one in France and one in the US. The actor revealed that while the women occasionally “get jealous”, they are both aware of the predicament and are supportive of his romantic approach. “I have a girlfriend in Paris and a girlfriend in [...]

Russell Brand had sex with nine women in one night!

Russell BrandComedian Russell Brand has revealed that he once had sex with nine women in one night. Brand, 35, who is now married to singer Katy Perry, 26, admitted not every girl moved the earth for him. “I was having sex with different women three, four, five times a day. In Ireland, nine in one evening,” [...]

Cheryl Cole among 50 most powerful women in film, television

Cheryl Cole 3X Factor co-judge Cheryl Cole has been named as one of the 50 most powerful women in film and television this year. Cole, 27, joins the likes of on-screen talent like Dames Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and Helen Mirren as well as bosses of TV stations, filmmakers and writers. Judges of the prestigious annual list [...]

10 Hottest Women CEOs

With all the hot, smart ladies who are taking business into their own hands nowadays, we’re starting to think maybe the feminist movement wasn’t such a bad thing after all. There’s nothing sexier than an assertive woman – well, not much anyway. So join us now as we celebrate our enlightened age, and the pleasing [...]

Charlotte Church is the celebrity Brit women are most likely to resemble

A survey of iPhone users has found that Welsh singer Charlotte Church is the celebrity British women are most likely to resemble. According to developers of the Celebalike app, which can be downloaded on to the smart phones, 20 percent of people are regularly told they bear a resemblance to a famous face. The app [...]

Oprah Tops Forbes’ 2010 List Of Top 10 Highest-Earning Women In Hollywood

Oprah Winfrey is the highest earning female in Hollywood, according to a new ranking from Forbes Magazine. The Queen of Talk, who is set to say goodbye to TV’s The Oprah Winfrey Show in September after 25 years, earned $324 million from her Harpo media empire between Oct. 2009 and Oct. 2010. The television mogul [...]

Fergie Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year 2010

Fergie has been named a Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine, landing three different covers for the 20th anniversary of the mag’s Women of the Year Awards. When it comes to Renaissance Women in Fergie’s life, the bar gets no higher than her mom, Terri Jackson. “During Christmas time we would make these boxes [...]

Fergie Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year 2010

Fergie has been named a Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine, landing three different covers for the 20th anniversary of the mag’s Women of the Year Awards. When it comes to Renaissance Women in Fergie’s life, the bar gets no higher than her mom, Terri Jackson. “During Christmas time we would make these boxes [...]

Sept. 28, 1865: England Gets Its First Woman Physician, the Hard Way

1865: Elizabeth Garrett becomes the first woman in England to receive a medical license.
It didn’t come easy.
Bound by the restrictions on sex and class that prevailed in Victorian England, Garrett, the daughter of a London pawnbroker, was inspired to enter medicine after meeting Elizabeth Blackwell, the first practicing woman physician in the United States. First, [...]

Women dominate new Swiss cabinet

Switzerland’s parliament has voted a new minister into the government, giving the cabinet a majority of women for the first time. The election of Simonetta Sommaruga, a Social Democrat, is a historic step in a country where women only got to vote on a national level in 1971.

7 Midget Celebrities with Girlfriends Twice Their Height

Life doesn’t always have to be tough for the little guy. Here are 7 midget celebrities with girlfriends twice their size!

Chip Shot: Building Relationships With Technology, While Reducing Stress

Do you use technology to build relationships? Intel Social Scientist Kathi Kitner does, and apparently so do women all over the world. In the latest guest post from Intel Scoop’s  series of articles on stress and technology, Kathi discusses how she and other women use technology to “tend and befriend” – a phrase used to describe women’s tendency to “tend” (care for others) and “befriend” (connect with others) – when stress levels increase. Read the Kathi’s post at scoop.intel.com/2010/09/technology-and-relationships.php.

Justin Bieber’s Mom Says Her Son Prefers to Be Pure with Women

It won’t be a secret to anyone to say that 16-year-old Justin Bieber has become a teen idol to a great number of girls, however, according to the Canadian star’s mom, he is keeping his private life on the straight and narrow. Pattie Mallette, Bieber’s mom, said in “Justin Bieber: My World,” a clip from [...]

16 Super Hot Older Celebrities Who are Still Bangable

Some ladies luck out — a good plastic surgeon, genes, or simply healthy habits give their looks a longevity that leave us wanting more for years, or even decades.