World Leaders and Politicians

Laura Chinchilla elected President of Costa Rica: Laura Chinchilla Miranda was sworn in as the first woman president of Costa Rica on May 8, 2010. She was one of the two Vice-Presidents and Minister of Justice of the outgoing President Oscar Arias Sanchez's cabinet.

Benigno Aquino was declared the winner of the Philippine presidential election, after the vote count from May's poll was finally concluded on June 8, 2010. Aquino secured more than 15 million votes, 5.5 million more than his nearest rival, former president Joseph Estrada.

A plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and a large swath of the country's leadership crashed in heavy fog in the Katyn forest in Smolensk in Western Russia on April 10, 2010, killing everyone aboard. The President along with his country's top military and political leadership - was to attend the 70th anniversary of the massacre in Katyn forest of 20,000 Polish officers by the Soviet secret police on the orders of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin 70 years ago during World War Two after the Red Army invaded Poland.

The assassination of the former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, was preventable and the failures of the investigation into her killing were deliberate, according to the report by a three-member United Nations Commission of Inquiry headed by Chile's UN ambassador Heraldo Munoz. The 70-page report was released on April 15, 2010, severely rebuked Pakistan's spy agency ISI for interfering in criminal investigations after her assassination, which subordinated law and order.

US President Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair, resigned on May 21, 2010. Blair is a retired US Navy admiral who took over as the third director of national intelligence in January 2009. The position was created after the 11 September 2001 attacks to try to unify and strengthen America's many intelligence agencies, and to force them to   share information.

Obama signs US media freedom law: President Barack Obama in May 2010 signed a law that requires the US state department to compile a public list of foreign governments that violate press freedom. The law named the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act is named after US journalist Daniel Pearl, who was beheaded by militants in Pakistan in 2002. He was working on a Wall Street Journal story about radical Islamist groups. Pearl was 38 when he was' abducted in January 2002 in Karachi and later decapitated.

Park Chung Hee was a South Korean politician who served as the President of South Korea from 1963 until his assassination in 1979.

The August Offer of 1940, which promised a constituent assembly after the war, was made by the Viceroy Lord Linlithgow.

Ferdinand Marcos was the President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. Ghana, Fiji, and Cuba had different leaders during this period.

Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Prime Minister of Thailand, was convicted in 2008 for conflict of interest regarding a land purchase.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn served as the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 2007 to 2011.

Hu Jintao served as the President of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2013.

Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States in 2008.

Martti Ahtisaari, the former President of Finland, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his work in international conflict resolution.

Mohamed ElBaradei served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2009 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. The option C has a slight spelling variation of his name.