- Asian markets mixed after Wall St drop, Shanghai dips before briefing
- Automaker Stellantis says CEO will retire in 2026
- Musk's promised robotaxi unveil delayed
- Kamada says Japan can close in on World Cup place against Australia
- On US coast, wind power foes embrace 'Save the Whales' argument
- Renewables revolt in Sardinia, Italy's coal-fired island
- Argentina held, Brazil leave it late in 2026 World Cup qualifiers
- Obama blasts 'crazy' Trump in first rally for Harris
- 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, a plea in favour of world order?
- Fry homers as Guardians down Tigers to stay alive in MLB playoffs
- Japan PM presses China's Li on airspace intrusion
- In Trump 'Truths,' conspiracies, attacks -- and doubts about the election
- How Sebastian Stan found a 'relatable' Trump for 'The Apprentice' biopic
- Panama's water wheel trash collector keeps plastic at bay
- It's still 'the economy, stupid,' says US political guru Carville
- Five key dates in the history of the America's Cup
- Zelensky to meet Pope, Scholz as whirlwind Europe tour ends
- At least 10 dead in Florida but Hurricane Milton not as bad as feared
- Far from eye, Hurricane Milton's deadly tornados rampaged Florida
- At least 10 dead in Florida after Hurricane Milton spawns tornadoes
- Argentina held, Bolivia stun Colombia in 2026 qualifiers
- Socceroos have 'nothing to fear' from Japan
- Sean 'Diddy' Combs sex trafficking trial set for May 2025
- Bolivia stun Colombia in World Cup qualifiers
- Internet Archive reels from 'catastrophic' cyberattack, data breach
- Greece earn late win against England in Nations League, Italy-Belgium stalemate
- Trump biopic 'The Apprentice' hits US theaters weeks before election
- Pavlidis dedicates 'special' Greece win over England to tragic Baldock
- Wall Street stocks retreat from records on US inflation data
- 'Like a quake': Beirut shaken after deadliest strikes on centre
- Fallen giants Ghana in AFCON trouble after Sudan draw
- Asian leaders meet in Laos with US, Russia on world turmoil
- England gamble backfires as Pavlidis fires emotional Greece to victory
- Obama stumps for Harris, Trump talks US protectionism
- New-look France ease past Israel in Nations League
- Belgium fight back to draw with 10-man Italy in Nations League
- 'Get a life': Hurricane whips up US election storm
- Japan stay perfect in World Cup qualifying
- Relief as Lebanon evacuees dock in Turkey
- Lebanon says 22 dead in Israeli strikes on central Beirut
- NBA boss Silver sees games back in China 'at some point'
- Israel strikes central Beirut, killing 22
- Table tennis and Netflix push Ukraine teen into French Open contention
- Civilians flee Gaza's Jabalia in tightening Israeli siege
- Israel strikes central Beirut, killing 18
- At least 10 dead in Florida from tornadoes caused by Hurricane Milton
- Warhol's rare 'Queen' collection opens at Dutch museum
- Three-time NBA champion Green retires
- MLB Twins up for sale after 40 years
- S.Sudan floods affect 893,000, over 241,000 displaced: UN
From Berlusconi to Prigozhin and Tina Turner: notable deaths of 2023
From Italy's ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi to rock queen Tina Turner and Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, here are some of 2023's most notable deaths.
- January -
- 07: RUSSELL BANKS, 82, prolific and acclaimed US novelist whose work charted the interior lives of marginalised people
- 10: JEFF BECK, 78, British guitar virtuoso and innovator who rose to rock and roll fame with 1960s group the Yardbirds
- 10: CARDINAL GEORGE PELL, 81, Australian archbishop, giant of the Catholic Church, who was jailed for child sexual abuse but later cleared
- 12: LISA MARIE PRESLEY, 54, singer-songwriter and only child of Elvis Presley, dies of a bowel condition caused by weight loss surgery
- 16: GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA, 95, Italian film diva, one of the last icons of Golden Age Hollywood
- 17: LUCILE RANDON, 118, French nun, who was world's oldest known person
- 18: DAVID CROSBY, 81, American folk-rock pioneer
- February -
- 03: PACO RABANNE, 88, Spanish fashion designer famed for his eccentric designs and fragrances
- 05: PERVEZ MUSHARAFF, 79, Pakistan's former military ruler
- 08: BURT BACHARACH, 94, legendary pop composer of hits including "Walk on By" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
- 10: CARLOS SAURA, 91, acclaimed Spanish director who critiqued Franco's dictatorship
- 15: RAQUEL WELCH, 82, US actress and global sex symbol who famously donned a fur bikini in a 1960s caveman epic
- 15: PAUL BERG, 96, Nobel-winning biochemist, key figure in genetic engineering
- March -
- 03: KENZABURO OE, 88, Nobel-winning Japanese novelist
- 09: CHAIM TOPOL, 87, Israeli actor best-known for his role as milkman Tevye in 1971 classic "Fiddler on the Roof"
- 12: DICK FOSBURY, 76, athlete who revolutionised the high jump with a leap backwards over the bar, known as the "Fosbury flop", that replaced the scissor kick approach
- 21: CLAUDE LORIUS, 91, French glaciologist and climate science pioneer whose 1980s Antarctica discoveries helped prove humanity's role in global warming
- 28: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, 71, Japan's most important post-war composer who pioneered electronic music
- April -
- 13: MARY QUANT, 93, rule-breaking British fashion designer and pioneer of the miniskirt
- 16: AHMAD JAMAL, 92, towering and influential US pianist, composer and band leader who released some 80 albums and helped transform jazz, pop and hip-hop
- 19: MOONBIN, 25, K-Pop megastar and member of boy band Astro, found dead at his home in apparent suicide
- 22: BARRY HUMPHRIES, aka DAME EDNA EVERAGE, 89, Australian comedian who invented the iconic lilac-haired parody of a suburban housewife
- 25: CAROLYN BRYANT, 88, US woman whose claim of unwanted attention from Black teenager Emmett Till led to his lynching in 1955
- 25: HARRY BELAFONTE, 96, superstar American music performer and activist
- 27: JERRY SPRINGER, 79, popular US talk show host, whose rowdy programme symbolised low-brow TV
- May -
- 19: MARTIN AMIS, 73: leading voice in modern British fiction
- 24: TINA TURNER, 83, US rock icon famed for her electrifying stage presence
- June -
- 05: ASTRUD GILBERTO, 83, "Girl from Ipanema" Brazilian singer
- 06: FRANCOISE GILOT, 101, French artist and a longtime lover of Pablo Picasso, they had two children together, but then she left him
- 06: ROBERT HANSSEN, 79, US double agent who fed Russia some of America's deepest secrets, dies while serving a life sentence
- 10: TED KACZYNSKI, 81, "Unabomber" who terrorised America with a two-decade bombing campaign aimed at halting the advance of modern technology and society
- 12: SILVIO BERLUSCONI, 86, larger-than-life scandal-tainted former Italian premier and billionaire media mogul
- 13: CORMAC McCARTHY, 89, titan of American fiction with novels including "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men"
- 15: GLENDA JACKSON, 87, British Oscar-winning actress and politician
- July -
- 01: VICTORIA AMELINA, 37, rising star of Ukrainian literature, who died from injuries sustained in a Russian missile attack
- 11: MILAN KUNDERA, 94, Czech-French novelist best-known for "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
- 16: JANE BIRKIN, 76, British-born singer and actress famous for her creative and romantic relationship with French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg
- 21: TONY BENNETT, 96, last of the classic American crooners
- 26: SINEAD O'CONNOR, 56, iconoclastic Irish pop singer, best-known for her 1990 global hit "Nothing Compares 2 U"
- 30: PAUL REUBENS, 70, US comic famed for his beloved man-child "Pee-wee Herman" character
- August -
- 07: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN, 87, US director of "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection"
- 09: SIXTO RODRIGUEZ, 81, cult American singer-songwriter who was the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man"
- 15: BINDESHWAR PATHAK, 80, Indian social reformer and revolutioniser of national sanitation, known as "toilet man"
- 23: YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN, 62, head of Russian para-military group Wagner, killed in a plane crash after leading a mutiny against Moscow's military leadership
- 30: MOHAMED AL-FAYED, 92, Egyptian ex-owner of Harrods department store and the Ritz in Paris, whose son Dodi died alongside Princess Diana in a car crash in 1997
- September -
- 02: SALIF KEITA, 76, Mali, Marseille and Saint-Etienne footballer
- 09: MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI, 95, Zulu prince and veteran South African politician
- 11: IAN WILMUT, 79, pioneering British embryologist who led team that in 1996 created Dolly, the cloned sheep
- 15: FERNANDO BOTERO, 91, Colombian sculptor famous for his voluptuous forms
- 27: MICHAEL GAMBON, 82, British actor, played Albus Dumbledore in many "Harry Potter" films
- 25: MATTEO MESSINA DENARO, 61, one of the most ruthless Sicilian mafia bosses dies in prison
- 29: DIANNE FEINSTEIN, 90, trailblazing politician dubbed the "Lioness of the US Senate"
- October -
- 13: HUBERT REEVES, 91, Canadian-French astrophysicist, renowned for popularising space science
- 13: LOUISE GLUCK, 80, American poet, winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes
- 21: BOBBY CHARLTON, 86, English football hero, World Cup winner, Manchester United legend
- 21: GISELLE KHOURY, 67, grande dame of Arab journalism
- 27: LI KEQIANG, 68, Chinese premier during the first two five-year terms of President Xi Jinping
- 28: MATTHEW PERRY, 54, US star who played Chandler Bing in hit sitcom "Friends" dies after a long battle with addiction
- November -
- 19: ROSALYNN CARTER, 96, former US first lady who championed human rights, democracy and public health
P.Martin--AMWN