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Mandela 'improving' as Obama lands in S.Africa US President Barack Obama arrived in South Africa on Friday to pay homage to his hero Nelson Mandela, who was said to be showing "great improvement" in hospital.

29 June 2013

Obama's 'hero' Mandela hangs on US President Barack Obama flies to South Africa Friday hoping to pay homage to the legacy of his critically ill hero Nelson Mandela.

28 June 2013

Bolivian paper releases unknown Che documents Che Guevara's personal letters and a slew of unpublished photographs were published by a Bolivian newspaper Monday, nearly half a century after the Argentine-born Cuban revolution hero's death.

19 June 2013

Venezuela inaugurates Simon Bolivar mausoleum Venezuela has inaugurated a mausoleum that will hold the remains of the South American liberator Simon Bolivar, an imposing structure whose brainchild was the late Hugo Chavez.

15 May 2013

Swedish Holocaust hero made honorary Australian Australia paid tribute on Monday to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews during World War II, by making him the country's first honorary citizen.

16 April 2013

Is it a bird? A plane? No, just a guy named Oscar He was a self-styled superhero, prowling the gritty outskirts of Buenos Aires wearing a mask and cartoonish outfit and armed only with a flashlight, compass and pepper spray as he took on bad guys.

26 January 2013

Singapore cabbie returns $900,000 to Thai couple A Singaporean taxi driver has been heralded as a hero after he returned Sg$1.1 million ($900,000) in cash to a vacationing Thai couple who left the money in his cab.

21 November 2012

Karim Massimov suggested to award Nursultan Nazarbayev with People’s Hero title November 29 Rashid Tusupbekov voiced the suggestion of Prime-Minister.

29 November 2011