German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for the third year running.

Having defected from Google to head up its struggling rival, Marissa Mayer faces a daunting challenge to revive moribund tech giant Yahoo!, but her first set of quarterly results gives some cause for optimism, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A golf writer for the New York Times said she wouldn’t want to cover the Masters again until Augusta National invites a woman to be a member.