BBC: The world needs strong young women to pave the way for the future, an emotional US First Lady Michelle Obama has told schoolgirls in London.
Mrs Obama was close to tears as she addressed the excited crowd at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in Islington, north London.
She told them: "We are counting on every single one of you to be the best that you can be."
Mrs Obama is in the UK with husband Barack for the G20 summit.
Her visit to the North London school was greeted with much excitement by pupils and she sat smiling, riveted, as Year 11 pupil Grace Hollowell and the school's junior choir performed the Whitney Houston hit Believe.
Mrs Obama, a mother of two girls herself, smiled and watched intently throughout the other performances, which also included a modern-day staging of The Tempest, and a presentation on the school's new Learning To Lead scheme.
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