RALEIGH, N.C.—Two of the three men who successfully challenged racial segregation as undergraduates at North Carolina’s flagship university have now died in less than a month....
MANILA, Philippines—Senator Tobias C. Enverga, Jr., the first Filipino-Canadian senator, has died today. He was 61. Sen. Enverga passed away while in a parliamentary trip to...
LOS ANGELES—Hugh Hefner turned silk pyjamas into a work uniform, women into centerfolds and sexual desire into a worldwide multimedia empire that spanned several generations of...
LONDON—Robert Hardy, a veteran British stage and screen actor who played Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died. He was 91....
MONTREAL—Leonard Cohen — writer, poet, composer, singer, renowned seducer and, for many, the epitome of cool — has died at the age of 82. His sonorous,...
KELOWNA, B.C.—The family of Jim Prentice expressed its “profound shock and heartbreak” Friday after a plane carrying the former Alberta premier and three other people crashed...
Manila, Philippines—Former Philippine senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago died today, September 29 at 8:52 p.m. at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. She was 71....
TORONTO—Longtime architecture and visual art critic John Bentley Mays has died. The Globe and Mail newspaper says Mays was struck by “a sudden and fatal heart...
NEW YORK—Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian—born Holocaust survivor whose classic “Night” became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched Wiesel’s long career as...
SEATTLE—Ernestine Anderson, the internationally celebrated jazz vocalist who earned four Grammy nominations during a six-decade career, has died. She was 87. The King County Medical Examiner’s...