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With either Theresa May or Andrea Leadsom in Downing Street by the Autumn, Angela Merkel hanging on as German chancellor, and on current polling, Hilary Clinton in the White House from January, 2017 will begin with women leading three of the most powerful nations of the G8 for the first time. Is this a significant moment for feminism? A question for Laura Beers from the American University in Washington DC.

The vote in the UK to leave the European Union has set off a beauty contest among European cities, eager to pick up the banking and financial business that they hope will now leave London. In Paris the authorities are fiercely promoting the city as a new Eurozone hub, and the Socialist government's promising tax reforms to lure over high-earning financial workers. The 大象传媒's Hugh Schofield reports from the French capital.

In a big field in the US state of Kentucky, a rather extraordinary exhibit has just opened to the public. It is a 510-foot, $100m replica of Noah's ark, and it has been built by a Christian group that believes in the literal truth of the account of the flood in Genesis. Joe Boone is Vice president for advancement of the Genesis Answers project which built the ark.

And we find out why Japan is so obsessed with perfect fruit.

We are joined throughout the programme by two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific - Jason Abbruzzese, a Business Reporter at Mashable who is in New York - Duncan Clark, Chairman of the business advising firm, BDA China in Beijing as well as the 大象传媒's Cindy Sui from Taiwan.

(Picture: The final candidates in the race to be British Prime Minister, Andrea Leadsom (L) and Theresa May)