PARIS - Ten deaths that marked 2009: HELEN SUZMAN (died January 1, aged 91) Suzman was for decades the lone voice of white dissent in South Africa's parliament against apartheid rule. She...

LONDON- British actor Edward Woodward, famous for film and TV roles including "The Wicker Man," Australian feature "Breaker Morant" and US series "The Equalizer," died in hospital Monday aged 79, his...

PARIS, Carole Landry - French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who helped shape Western thinking about human civilisation, has died at the age of 100, his publisher and colleagues said Tuesday....

RIO DE JANEIRO - Hundreds of people in Salvador de Bahia turned out Monday for the funeral of Antonio Alves de Souza, Brazil's king of drums and Olodum group leader, who accompanied Michael Jackson...

NEW YORK - The chief of Lazard investment bank, Bruce Wasserstein, who played a key role in some of Wall Street's biggest deals over the past 30 years, died Wednesday, a spokesman for the company...

WASHINGTON, Andrew Beatty - Norman Borlaug, a Nobel Prize winning scientist whose work on disease-resistant wheat is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives, has died at the age of 95....

MONTREAL- Pierre Cossette, a celebrated producer known as the "father" of the Grammy awards ceremony, has died aged 85 in Montreal, according to the hospital where he was being treated. He passed...

LAGOS, Joel Olatunde Agoi- Prominent Nigerian lawyer and rights activist Gani Fawehinmi died Saturday after a prolonged battle with cancer, his colleages said. He was 71. Fawehinmi, a thorn in the...

LOS ANGELES - John Hughes, best known for directing a string of 1980s hit movies including "The Breakfast Club," and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 59....