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Thousands of people marched through the streets of New York for the city's first Disability Pride Parade Sunday.

• 13 июля 2015, 11:19

Malala Yousafzai told world leaders they were failing Syria's children, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner spent her 18th birthday on the Syrian border.

• 13 июля 2015, 11:12

Egyptian-born film legend Omar Sharif, who died aged 83, captivated audiences worldwide for more than half a century, but will forever be remembered as the eponymous "Doctor Zhivago".

• 11 июля 2015, 12:12

The world's oldest man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112.

• 07 июля 2015, 12:37

Britain's Princess Charlotte was christened in an intimate ceremony, in the royal baby's second public appearance since her birth nine weeks ago to proud parents Prince William and Kate.

• 06 июля 2015, 10:35

Nicholas Winton, a Briton who saved hundreds of Jewish children in Prague from the Nazis in the run-up to World War II, has died at the age of 106.

• 02 июля 2015, 12:02

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg figures there could be a formula that explains how people think.

• 01 июля 2015, 14:09

Former French interior minister Charles Pasqua, a hardline politician who was a close ally of former president Jacques Chirac, died Monday aged 88.

• 30 июня 2015, 13:54

Russia's former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, famed for turning around his US-bound plane over the Atlantic upon learning of NATO's bombing of Serbia in 1999, has died aged 85.

• 27 июня 2015, 10:21

James Horner, the celebrated composer for some of Hollywood's smash-hit films including "Titanic" and "Avatar," died Monday in a plane crash at the age of 61.

• 23 июня 2015, 12:48

Turkey's former president and prime minister Suleyman Demirel, a giant figure in the country's politics for over half a century, died Wednesday.

• 17 июня 2015, 16:42

Floyd "Money" Mayweather has beaten Manny Pacquiao again: the undefeated US boxer leads his Filipino rival atop Forbes' latest list of the world's highest-paid sports figures.

• 11 июня 2015, 14:09

German composer and big band leader James Last, whose trademark easy listening music brought him international success, has died aged 86.

• 10 июня 2015, 16:38

Dzhuna, a famed mystic healer and astrologer who is said to have treated Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Russian celebrities, died on Monday at 65.

• 09 июня 2015, 12:09

US President Barack Obama will deliver a eulogy at the burial of Vice President Biden's son Beau, who died of cancer aged 46.

• 03 июня 2015, 12:59

The city where B.B. King got his musical start paid final tribute to the blues guitar master, as thousands walking in the rain with his hearse shouted, "long live the king!"

• 28 мая 2015, 14:52

German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women for the fifth straight year but Hillary Clinton is snapping at her heels.

• 27 мая 2015, 15:36

Nobel Prize-winning US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the film "A Beautiful Mind," was killed with his wife in a New Jersey car crash.

• 25 мая 2015, 13:17

Russia opened the doors of a new museum dedicated to Nobel Prize-winning dissident poet Joseph Brodsky in the communal flat where he spent his youth.

• 23 мая 2015, 11:06

Memphis, Tennessee, where guitar legend B.B. King started his career, will mourn the late King of the Blues with a procession next week before his burial in his native Mississippi.

• 22 мая 2015, 10:10