Franco Baresi, who won the World Cup with Italy and was regarded as one of football's finest defenders, dies aged 66.
AC Milan and Italy great Franco Baresi has died at the age of 66, the Italian club announces.
She was known for her folk flavour, nativity, and rhythmic vitality
He was associated with KCR and Telangana Statehood movement since 2001
He had a hit with Nightfall, which featured on the Drive soundtrack and at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
A Hong Kong man known on the internet as “Mr Ho” has died, a week after receiving a two-month prison sentence for stabbing his wife. A source told the South China Morning Post on Tuesday that Ho Huen, 79, had died in a public hospital a day earlier. Ronson Chan Ron-sing, former chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, also said on social media that Ho had died, citing people close to the deceased. “He could not survive without being able to eat,” said Chan, who earlier revealed that he...
He was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Coimbatore
UK television personality Bill Oddie, best known for his role in the television comedy series The Goodies and presenter of nature programmes, has died aged 85, his agent said on Monday. “Bill was a multitalented celebrity – wildlife presenter, broadcaster, comedian, writer, songwriter, musician and conservationist,” Oddie’s agent David Foster said in a statement. “Yet it was never fame that he valued. Instead he encouraged us to respect and protect the environment. “He taught us the wonder of...
The family of the anatomist vowed to carry out his wish for his body to be preserved using the plastination technique he developed himself.
He was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Kozhikode due to age-related ailments
He represented the Nizamabad constituency five times between 1996 and 2007 and again from 2012 until now. Leaders from across parties expressed grief over the death
Ackbar Abbas, a Hong Kong-born scholar whose influence extended beyond academia to shape artists, filmmakers, writers and many others, died on July 13 at the age of 84 after a brief battle with cancer. Over decades of teaching at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Abbas did not simply analyse Hong Kong – he altered the way Hong Kong could be described. His 1997 book Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance was particularly influential....
Neill died in Sydney on Monday, with his family saying his death was 'sudden and unexpected'.
The Father Emir oversaw the meteoric rise of the small gas-rich nation.
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who as ruler of Qatar transformed the tiny Gulf nation into a global player in diplomacy, media and investment, and then shattered tradition by voluntarily turning over power to his son, has died, state media reported. He was 74. The state-run Qatar News Agency reported his death. It offered no cause. Sheikh Hamad, who stepped down in June 2013 after 18 years as emir, was the architect of energy-rich Qatar’s stunning ambitions that turned it from a backwater...
Sheikh Hamad, who ruled Qatar from 1995 to 2013, was a key architect of the energy-rich country's stunning ambitions.