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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's former president Mwai Kibaki, who has died aged 90, ushered in economic reforms...

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) - When a little known far-right politician called Vladimir Zhirinovsky claimed third place behind Boris...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali's former prime minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga, arrested over corruption allegations last year, died of an undisclosed illness...

PARIS (Reuters) - French virologist Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the human immunodeficiency...

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -Shintaro Ishihara, a fiery nationalist who was governor of Tokyo for more than a decade...

(This Jan. 22 story corrects to Princeton Theological Seminary from Princeton University in 12th paragraph) By James Pearson (Reuters) -...

PARIS (Reuters) -French actor Gaspard Ulliel, known for appearing in Chanel perfume ads and portraying fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill, designer of dystopian monumental buildings, died on Friday, his assistant told Reuters. He...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's landmine-sniffing rat Magawa, who found more than 100 landmines and explosives during a five-year career,...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Richard Leakey, a Kenyan conservationist and paleoanthropologist who spearheaded campaigns against the ivory trade to save the...

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Businessman Calisto Tanzi, who transformed a small family milk company into the multi-national food...

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africans remembered anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu with cathedral bells, flowers and...

, (Reuters) -"Like falling in love" is how Archbishop Desmond Tutu described voting in South Africa's first democratic election in...

By Sumaya Hisham , (Reuters) - My earliest memories of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu are from newspaper clippings and video...

(Reuters) - Former England captain Ray Illingworth, who famously captained the team to an Ashes series victory in Australia in...

LONDON (Reuters) - Richard Rogers, the Italian-born architect who designed landmark buildings including the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the...

By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Lucia Hiriart, the widow of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, died on Thursday...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Legendary Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez, an emblematic figure of ranchera music, died on Sunday at the...

By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) -Cambodian former prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the current king's half-brother, who spent...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, whose iron-fisted rule of the country following a 1979...