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Alan Howe

Alan HoweHistory and Obituaries Editor

Alan Howe has been a senior journalist on London’s The Times and Sunday Times, and the New York Post. While editing the Sunday Herald Sun in Victoria it became the nation’s fastest growing title and achieved the greatest margin between competing newspapers in Australian publishing history. He has also edited The Sunday Herald and The Weekend Australian Magazine and for a decade was executive editor of, and columnist for, Melbourne’s Herald Sun. Alan was previously The Australian’s Opinion Editor.

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inquirerInquirer

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) sits next to Russian Orthodox Church Head, Patriarch Kirill (L), during his meeting with religious leaders in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, 08/02/2012.

Evil needs company: the men behind the world’s most dangerous leaders

You might think of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Ayatollah Khameini as ruling absolutely – but each has a colleague driving their agenda.

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ObituaryWorld

Jaime Botín - Spanish billionaire heir, banker and art collector.

Billionaire banker brought down by Picasso’s Woman

What Alan Bond and Jaime Botin had in common, once they had amassed extraordinary wealth, was the need for the world to be aware of it.

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ObituaryCricket

MARCH 17, 2001 : Batsman Graham Thorpe sweeps during third test of Sri Lanka v England series at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo, 17/03/01.Cricket A/CT

England’s man for hard times couldn’t escape his own

Mike Atherton described 100-Test veteran Graham Thorpe as ‘unquestionably the most complete batsman of our generation’.

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OBITUARYBooks

Author Patricia Shaw at home on the Gold Coast, 01/12/97.P/

Literary superstar abroad, barely known at home

Patricia Shaw told compelling stories of Australians, generally set against the backdrop of 19th-century harshness. But we weren’t listening.

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Life & TimesInquirer

06/1945. The Australian services team takes the field for the Second Victory Test in Sheffield. L:R Graeme Williams, Stan Sismey, Keith Carmody, Dick Whitington, C.F.T. Price, Lindsay Hassett (captain), Keith Miller, J.A. Workman, Reg Ellis, Cyril Pepper and Arthur Cheetham.

History’s wicket games

Sixteen of this year’s T20 World Cup matches were played in America, but cricket’s overseas adventures have been amusingly haphazard across 180 years.

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OBITUARYNation

William Rubenstein. William D. (Bill) Rubinstein is Emeritus Professor of History of the University of Aberystwyth and an Adjunct Professor at Monash University, Australia. Photo: Supplied

Courage and conviction marked academic pioneer

William Rubinstein’s research concluded that the West’s democracies could not have saved more Jews from Adolf Hitler.

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PhilanthropyHealth

Dr Stella Mongella, a paediatric coronary surgeon based in Tanzania who trained in Israel with funding from the Australian Save a Child's Heart organisation.

Business’s biggest hearts save lives of littlest hearts

The occurrence of often congenital heart disease in newborns is the same the world over – about one in every 100 births.

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obituaryStage

Playwright Ray Lawler (94). Ray's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, is being revived by the State Theatre Company of South Australia, in this, its 60th year.

Playwright Ray Lawler dies aged 103

Melbourne playwright Ray Lawler, whose landmark play, Summer of the 17th Doll, changed the direction of Australian theatre, has died.

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ObituaryWorld

Twice former US diplomat to Israel Martin Indyk, Distinguished Fellow and Director of Executive Education, Council on Foreign Relations, New York

Australia’s warrior for Mid-East peace

Barack Obama made Martin Indyk his ambassador to Israel and his appointment was welcomed by both Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority.

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ObituaryInquirer

98-year-old Molly Sasson, a former MI5 spy and translator - later recruited to ASIO - interviewed Albert Speer at The Nuremberg trials PIC: Courtesy of Drew Thompson

Wartime spy devoted life to service and secrecy

During the Nuremberg Trials, Molly Sasson interviewed senior members of Hitler’s high command – many of whom were found guilty and hanged.

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