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USA

'Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer

Actor Chadwick Boseman dies following a four year battle with Colon Cancer at home surrounded by his family.

29/08/2020

USA

'Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer at 43

'From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and several more - all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy', his family said.

29/08/2020

USA

John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80

Tributes have been pouring in for Lewis, the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, a group led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that had the greatest impact on the civil rights movement

18/07/2020

USA

Christo, artist who wrapped world's landmarks, dies at 84

Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, famously cloaked Berlin's Reichstag, Paris's Pont Neuf and Australia's Little Bay in reams of fabric.

01/06/2020

USA

Playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer dies aged 84

“The one nice thing that I seem to have acquired, accidentally, is this reputation of everyone afraid of my voice,” Kramer once said.

28/05/2020

World News

Motor racing legend Stirling Moss dies aged 90

Stirling Moss, who was considered the greatest Formula One driver never to win the world championship, has died.

12/04/2020

Poland

Grammy award-winning Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki dies at 86

Polish culture "has suffered a great and irreparable loss", the country's culture minister said on Sunday.

29/03/2020

France

French cartoonist behind Astérix, Albert Uderzo, dies aged 92

Albert Uderzo, the cartoonist behind the famous French Astérix comic books, has died at the age of 92.

24/03/2020

USA

Singer, actor, 'The Gambler': Kenny Rogers dies at 81

Actor-singer Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop died at home of natural causes.

21/03/2020

USA

'Queen of Suspense' Mary Higgins Clark dies at 92

Higgins Clark started her professional career as a secretary and decided to write a novel after the death of her first husband. She went on to pen 56.

01/02/2020

France

French Resistance member Yvette Lundy dies at 103

Born in 1916 in a small village in the northeastern department of Marne, Lundy started from 1940 to supply fake papers to Jews, men fleeing the Nazi regime's compulsory labour service (STO) or escaped prisoners of war that one of her brothers — who died after being deported — was hiding on his farm.

04/11/2019

USA

'90210' and 'Riverdale' actor Luke Perry dies aged 52

American actor Luke Perry has died aged 52 after suffering a stroke, his publicist said in a statement.

04/03/2019

USA

A climate science giant leaves a final warning

Days before his death, Wallace Broecker urged scientists to consider deploying a last-ditch solar shield to stop global warming.

04/03/2019

France

'I am very much down-to-earth. Just not this earth': Lagerfeld's wit

"Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself."

20/02/2019