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<h1>Checkin' It Out' Singer Lil Chris Aged 24 Dies</h1> Chris - real name Christopher Hardman - first ascended to conspicuousness when he was offered in the second arrangement of the Channel 4 narrative, 'Rock School', which saw Gene Simmons attempting to make a rock band from a gathering of...

<h1>Fantasy Author Sir Terry Pratchett Dies Aged 66</h1> Sir Terry Pratchett, fantasy author and maker of the Discworld series, has passed on matured 66, eight years in the wake of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's ailment. "The world has lost one of its brightest, most keen personalities,"...

<h1>Leonard Nimoy - (Mr Spock on Star Trek), Dies Aged 83</h1> Leonard Nimoy, who captivated eras of crowds with his portrayal of Star Trek's human-outsider savant and first officer Mr Spock, has passed on at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83. The on-screen character passed on Friday...

<h1>Star of La Dolce Vita - Anita Ekberg Dies Aged 83</h1> #AnitaEkberg, who became an international symbol of lush beauty and unbridled sensuality in the 1960 Federico Fellini film “La Dolce Vita,” died on Sunday in Rocca di Papa, southeast of Rome. She was 83. The cause was complications...

CAPITALISM red in tooth and claw never seemed to appeal to Reinhard Mohn. Asked to write an essay entitled “My Thoughts on Choosing a Profession”, the 16-year-old schoolboy dwelt on his obligations to society, his natural abilities and the desire for a useful life. These concerns, he said, were...

ESSENTIALLY a communicator” was the way Sir Ludovic Kennedy described himself. A Scottish “lad o’ pairts” might have been a better term. Not only did he have prodigious talents as a writer and broadcaster, but he used them to the full. If his manner was relaxed, his questioning courteous and his...

HE HAS almost been cropped from the photograph, and his name is a blank in the key. An interpreter’s lot, perhaps. But there on the extreme left, legs crossed, with his long, intent nose and his immature moustache (he is 22, young for such work), sits Richard Sonnenfeldt. His fingers are hooked...

REACHING blearily, in the morning, for a pair of socks, few people give a thought to the smooth running of a drawer. But to Alan Peters, who for many years was probably Britain’s best furniture-maker, a properly fitted and functioning drawer was the acme of his craft. A perfect drawer, he would...

BEFORE Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionised the discipline, anthropology in France, and generally elsewhere, was a matter of ill-attended lectures in small, cold halls, and the collection of feathers and fish-hooks as evidence of the quaint divergences of the “primitive” tribes of mankind. He made...

SEEN from the height of a passenger jet, the mountains of Idaho and western Montana look like the grey, wrinkled hide of a dinosaur. Closer up, from a twin-engine aircraft, those wrinkles become thousands of conifers marching over the steep and broken ground. Closer still—“My God! My chute’s not...

THE first time she modelled for Edward Weston, in March 1934, Charis Wilson knew she didn’t look good. At 20 she was “a piece of jailbait”, a mere child, especially with the stumpy plaits into which she sometimes twisted her hair. She was a drifter, moving in a miasma of angry despair in and out...

“IN RUSSIA you have to live long,” a Russian poet said once. Yegor Gaidar did not. But in his short life he did not just see historic changes, he brought them about. Journalists liked to call him the architect of Russian market reforms. As justifiably, he could be called the man who saved his...

THE first time Oral Roberts heard Jesus’s call on his life, he was 17 and had been bedfast with TB for five months. He was a stuttering, faltering, disbelieving young man, much like the young Moses in his pride. But as his impoverished family knelt round his bed in their cabin in the dust of...

I WAS reborn, born as an economist, at 8.00am on January 2nd 1932, in the University of Chicago classroom,” wrote Paul Samuelson in a memoir published earlier this month. He became probably the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century. For his work in several branches of...

FEW people make such a difference. In 1991 Yegor Gaidar took responsibility for one of the worst messes in the history of economics, in the largest country in the world. The Soviet planned economy had collapsed amid grotesque shortages of everything from food to matches. Queuing for essential...

FEW people make such a difference. In 1991 Yegor Gaidar took responsibility for one of the worst messes in the history of economics, in the largest country in the world. The Soviet planned economy had collapsed amid grotesque shortages of everything from food to matches. Queuing for essential...

What does it take to start a company? Well, if you are Atul Khekade of Innovation Trip, then only $2,000 would be sufficient to bankroll a business -- a business that is expected to generate revenues of $250,000 by December and if all goes as planned, could well hit the million dollar mark by...