Former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick dies at 80
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, a key player in former President Ronald Reagan's conservative foreign policy as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died, the American Enterprise Institute, where she was a senior fellow, said on Friday.
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A United Nations employee who police believe jumped to her death from the 19th floor of U.N. headquarters was a computer expert with joint Uruguayan-Austrian citizenship, the U.N. said on Tuesday.
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When a house fire last year killed 88-year-old Helene Whitlock Alley and her husband, a professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy, she was remembered primarily as an unassuming retiree and a devoted wife.
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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations called on Tuesday for a full investigation into alleged corruption in contracts worth some $610 million linked to U.N. peacekeeping missions.
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British actress Pat Kirkwood, a star of stage and screen since the 1930s, dies at the age of 86.
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black US congresswoman and also the first woman to seek presidency, dies aged 80.
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Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, the televangelist who helped lead the PTL ministry before its collapse in a sex and corruption scandal, has died at age 65, her Web site reported on Saturday.
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John Danforth, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned after less than six months in the job, it was disclosed on Thursday.
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Indonesia's former president Suharto,  whose legacy of economic development was marred by graft and  human rights abuses during his 32 years in power, died on  Sunday, aged 86, after suffering multiple organ failure.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- The White House on Thursday paid tribute to United Nations envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed in the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad one year ago.
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The United States' special envoy to  Sudan, Andrew Natsios, has resigned and is expected to be  replaced by an Illinois Republican and former U.N. official, a  senior U.S. official and aid workers said on Friday.
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas  - Richard Kelley, former U.S. President Bill Clinton's stepfather, died on Wednesday at his home in Hot Springs, Arkansas, after a lengthy illness. He was 91.
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The Annapolis-trained submarine officer who rose to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and served as ambassador to Britain, has died at age 82
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The woman who died after falling from the U.N.'s Secretariat Building was a 44-year-old employee of the World Health Organization's International Computing Center, a U.N. spokeswoman said Monday.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Bob Hattoy, an advocate for gay and lesbian issues who accused the former President Bush of doing nothing about AIDS during a nationally televised speech at the Democratic National Convention, has died. He was 56.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, a key player in  former President Ronald Reagan's conservative foreign policy as  U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died, the American  Enterprise Institute, where she was a senior fellow, said on  Friday.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.