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Tony Porcel : décès d'un champion
publié le 25/03/2014 à 12h35 Tony Porcel, grand champion de la boxe lyonnaise, est mort le 24 mars dernier Né à Oran en 1937, il est arrivé en France au début des années 60 où il a entamé une...
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Nécrologie : Décès de Thérèse Lebouteiller
publié le 21/03/2014 par Christophe Leconte Elle fut conseillère municipale d'opposition pendant plusieurs mandats. Thérèse Lebouteiller est décédée mardi à l'âge de 89 ans. Née dans une famille...
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Lamarque-Pontacq. Décès de Georges Latapie
publié le 22/03/2014 à 03h51 Georges Latapie vient de s'éteindre à l'âge de 90 ans, des suites d'une longue maladie. Il était né dans l'Aveyron, à Aubin, village situé à proximité de Decazeville, dans...
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Espagne. Décès d'Adolfo Suarez
publié le 24/03/2014 à 13h10 Adolfo Suarez, premier chef de gouvernement de la démocratie espagnole et grande figure de la transition post-franquiste, est mort, hier, à l'âge de 81 ans dans une...
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Dinko Sakic, le commandant de l’« Auschwitz croate », enterré dans son...
publié le 31/07/2008 à 17h04 par Mader Mardi dernier quelque 300 personnes ont assisté à Zagreb à l’enterrement de Dinko Sakic, un ancien commandant du camp de concentration de Jasenovac, l’un de ceux...
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Frank Rushbrook
published 02/03/2014 at 18:29 There is an ancient ritual in Edinburgh. Whenever a new fire master is appointed – or, as we must now say, chief fire officer – the first event is the arrival of the...
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Yuri Nosenko
published 28/08/2008 at 10:29 PM BST KGB intelligence officer whose sudden defection to the West was initially viewed with suspicion Yuri Nosenko defected to the West at the height of the Cold War...
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Lady Llewellyn: Cipher officer who established and led a team crucial to...
published 27/02/2014 at 18:57 by Anne Keleny Joan Williams was one of the linchpins of Winston Churchill's War Cabinet Secretariat, heading part of the small military wing within it that gave him the...
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Beatrix Miller: 'Vogue' editor whose own talents, and her nurturing of...
published 26/02/2014 at 19:07 by Adrian Hamilton "Speak," she would command, turning her chair sideways to the window, putting her feet up on to the radiator and powdering her nose while waiting for...
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Walt Ehlers: Staff sergeant who was awarded a US Medal of Honor for saving...
published 26/02/2014 at 19:11 by John Rogers Walter Ehlers accomplished awe-inspiring acts of bravery during D-Day, earning a Medal of Honor for knocking out two German machine-gun nests and saving...
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Beatrix Miller obituary
published 23/02/2014 at 08:45 PM Beatrix Miller was the editor of Vogue who brought benevolence and a literary lilt to the modish world of fashionistas Beatrix Miller, who has died aged 90, was the...
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Lady Llewellyn obituary
published 18/02/2014 at 19:24 PM GMT Lady Llewellyn was a wartime cipher officer with Fighter Command who later picnicked with Winston Churchill in Marrakesh Lady Llewellyn, who has died aged 96,...
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Kennedy: RAF airman who evacuated POWs in the...
published 25/02/2014 at 19:31 The exigencies of military supply by air made Thomas Lawrie "Jock" Kennedy a master of the skies who flew across every continent, equipping him also to push forward the...
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Alice Herz-Sommer: Pianist and oldest Holocaust survivor who became a symbol...
published 25/02/2014 at 19:35 by Martin Andersono Alice Herz-Sommer was a musician. But by the end of her long life, she was much more than that: the oldest living Holocaust survivor, she had become a...
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Sir David Price: Politician who served under Macmillan and Douglas Home but...
published 12/02/2014 at 20:01 by Tam Dalyell Had I been asked in 1962, the year I was elected to the House of Commons, who would be likely to be the Leader of the Conservative Party a decade and a...
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What LBJ can teach us about ending gridlock
published 25/03/2014 at 11:16 AM by Matt Grossmann This is a guest post by Michigan State political scientist Matt Grossmann. He will be guest-blogging this week about his new book, “Artists of the...
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Randolph W. Thrower, defiant IRS chief under Nixon, dies at 100
published 19/03/2014 at 18:26 par Matt Schudel Randolph W. Thrower, who served two years as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service under President Richard M. Nixon before clashing with the...
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Lawrence E. Walsh, Iran-contra special prosecutor, dies at 102
published 20/03/2014 at 18:45 by Joe Holley Lawrence E. Walsh, a New York corporate lawyer with impeccable Republican credentials who as independent counsel prosecuted several key players in the...
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon
The Assassination of Richard Nixon ou L'Assassinat de Richard Nixon en Belgique est un film américain de Niels Mueller, sorti en 2004. L'histoire d'un homme brisé parce que sa femme l'a quitté, parce...
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Commission Rogers
La Commission Rogers, de son nom officiel Commission présidentielle sur l'accident de la navette spatiale Challenger (Rogers Commission ou Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger...
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