2023-12-16 12:04:15 The Emir of Kuwait, Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in Kuwait, December 5, 2017. GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, died on Saturday December 16 at the age of 86, the emirate’s court announced, after a three-year mandate marked by repeated political conflicts at the head of … Read more
2023-12-01 09:51:43 Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, carries Gladstone’s old budget box before presenting the annual budget to the House of Commons in London, March 24, 2010. KEVIN COOMBS / REUTERS In a long portrait of him published by the Guardian On August 30, 2008, Alistair Darling, then Chancellor of the Exchequer of … Read more
2023-11-30 20:58:13 American photographer Elliott Erwitt poses at the Grand Palais during the Paris Photo international photography fair, in Paris, November 13, 2014. JOEL SAGET / AFP Photographer Elliott Erwitt, emblematic figure of the Magnum Photos agency, died on Wednesday November 29, we learned on Thursday. “It is with great sadness that we announce the … Read more
2023-11-23 16:14:04 Franco-Romanian actress Rona Hartner, here at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. ALBERTO PIZZOLI / AFP Best Actress Award at Locarno for the film Gadjo Thingsa popular singer on the electro-Balkan scene, the Franco-Romanian Rona Hartner, 50, died Thursday, November 23 in Toulon (south of France), announced the diocese and one of her friends. … Read more
2023-11-04 20:21:28 The CFDT union representative of the Lip watch factory Charles Piaget (right) and the general secretary of the CFDT Metallurgy Federation Jacques Chérèque (center), during a press conference in Paris on April 15, 1976 after the filing for bankruptcy of the European Watchmaking Company. AFP Working legend, emblematic figure of the fight of … Read more
2023-11-02 23:44:35 Undated NASA photo showing astronaut Thomas Mattingly. HANDOUT / AFP Destiny had decided to entrust him with a mission other than the one for which he had been assigned. And he had done it successfully. NASA astronaut Thomas Mattingly, who helped bring the crew back safely from the ill-fated Apollo-13 mission through his … Read more
2023-10-31 01:32:43 David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc, after “Friends” was crowned best comedy at the Emmy Awards, in Los Angeles, in September 2002. REED SAXON / AP “We were more than just film colleagues. We are a family “ : after the death of actor Matthew Perry, … Read more
2023-10-29 10:12:01 Matthew Perry, here in September 2009 in Los Angeles. MATT SAYLES / AP He had appeared in 14 feature films, 33 series and 14 TV films between 1979 and 2017. But in the eyes of the world, the career of Matthew Perry, who was found dead in his jacuzzi in Beverly Hills (California) … Read more