Dies

"He was a kind man and a lot more than Darth Vader," Hamill said on Twitter. "He loved his fans as much as they loved him."

Dave Prowse, the former British bodybuilder best known for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died at the age of 85, his manager has confirmed. "It is with great regret and heartbreaking sadness for us and…

Entrepreneur and management revolutionary Tony Hsieh died on Friday, November 27, 2020 after being injured in a house fire. Hsieh was famously the former CEO of Zappos, a company that revolutionized the way shoe shopping and the way…

Football legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 60.The former Argentine midfielder and manager suffered a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home.He had a successful operation on a brain blood…

Elizabeth's parents divorced when she was 7 and her mother married Prince George of Denmark. Elizabeth was immediately sent to boarding school. She often said that she learned nothing but good manners there.Her father died when she was…

Mekdad takes on the role of top diplomat, while the Syrian government remains largely isolated internationally.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appointed Faisal Mekdad as the new foreign minister, replacing Walid al-Moallem, who died…

Nelly Kaplan, whose funny, satirical French films about female empowerment and revenge made her an unmistakable voice in a time dominated by men, died on November 12th in Geneva. She was 89 years old.The Société des Réalisateurs de Films,…

The patriarch criticized the Serbian government's facilitation of gay pride events and condemned homosexuality as "a deviation from human nature," reports Guy Delauney, correspondent for the BBC Balkans. He was also bitterly against…

Jan Myrdal, a radical Swedish writer who scorned the liberal policies of his famous Nobel Prize winners and stood up for communism, Marxism and Maoism, died on October 30th in Varberg, Sweden. He was 93 years old.His death was announced by…

Bruno Barbey, a French photographer with Magnum Photos agency who produced powerful, sensitive work both in war zones and in peacetime, died on November 9th in Orbais-l'Abbaye in northeastern France. He was 79 years old.His wife, Caroline…