Nearly a month has passed since the Roman Catholic Church elected its first leader from Latin America and the international media has been treated to a whirlwind blitz of eye-catching tales and images.
Coventry City Council has its first woman leader after the ruling Labour group voted for a new head.
He joined an East Coast pharmaceutical-services concern in June 2011, ten months before the privately held business chose its first outside leader.
But it would at least give all Lebanon's communities a respected prime minister to fill the vacuum and the modern Arab world its first female leader.
Indonesia is the world's most populous Islamic country and Mr Yudhoyono its first directly elected leader.
So, is France ready for its first left-wing leader in 17 years?
Yet even in all the financial chaos, Iceland has been exceptional -- and only partly because its leader was the first to be criminally charged and, on one count, convicted.
The UK Independence Party has taken its first ever seats on Lincolnshire County Council, and ousted its deputy leader.
But as Egypt prepares to choose its leader democratically for the first time in history, Shafik, 72, is trying to portray himself as a man of the people.
Plaid is crowing about having its first ever address from a Welsh TUC leader.
If Chavismo is victorious in its first election without Chavez, the new leader will have to face decisions that may cause dissatisfaction among the movement, said Corrales, the Amherst professor.
He told the BBC he would have been "delighted" if his diocese had been the first one to have a woman as its leader.
The Right Reverend Peter Price told the BBC he would have been "delighted" if his diocese had been the first one to have a woman as its leader.
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's political leader to independence from British rule in 1947, and its first prime minister, was born into a high-caste Hindu family and became a resolute secularist.
King Abdullah of Jordan, the first Middle East leader to be received at the White House by its new incumbent, says the Americans now accept the urgency of a need to build momentum towards a comprehensive peace.
The party intends to field about 300 candidates and may win 30-70 seats. (Mr Hashimoto himself will not run this time, saying he wants to sort out Osaka first.) Probably the LDP will win a plurality of seats, and its next leader, perhaps Nobuteru Ishihara, will hope to bring the JRA into a coalition.
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Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie was concerned that the first minister had not given detail to its independence referendum.
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This marks the first year Nevada has held its caucuses so early, pushed in part by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who hoped early voting in his home state could help his party capitalize on their growing appeal amongst Western voters.
Published in 1889, Wealth was hailed as significant because it was the first time an iconic and powerful business leader made the case for business to give back to its community.
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The Westminster government is publishing its first analysis paper on Monday - the same day the fiscal commission working group, which was set up by SNP leader Alex Salmond last March, publishes its economic proposals for an independent Scotland.
When I watched I detected not cruelty from the writer or director or cast but an observation of the price of power - Thatcher is far from the first former leader to decline rapidly once out of office - and a means of providing the film with its narrative thread.
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