He had overseen high-profile cases as a private lawyer and a U.S. attorney in New York when he was named to examine the role ...

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative ...

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...

Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a ...

Dignitas has helped more than 3,000 people take their own lives, an act that Mr. Minelli maintained was a fundamental ...

As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force ...

Influential up and down the Eastern Seaboard, he was part of a long tradition among Black clergy of fighting bias and getting ...

The author of novels, histories, biographies and influential political essays, he approached them all with a droll British ...

He put fellow New Jerseyans at the center of his work, and a critic praised the “mysterious emotional tensions” in his ...

She won two world titles and six Canadian national championships, and was also a television anchor, reporter and commentator.

Nicola Pietrangeli, the Italian tennis legend who won two French Open titles, has died aged 92. Pietrangeli was the first ...

The Liverpool head coach is revered in Rotterdam after success at Feyenoord - and surprise at his problems this season at ...