Barack Obama Named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

Newly elected American president Barack Obama has surprisingly been named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’. Obama joins an esteemed list of winners that includes Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ted Turner and Vladimir Putin.

The runner-ups includes Henry Paulson, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and Beijing Olympic art director Zhang Yimou.