Centenarian found fame as Sweden’s oldest blogger
When the widowed Dagny Carlsson turned to a computer to help fill the void of her once married life, she set off an online phenomenon.
When the widowed Dagny Carlsson turned to a computer to help fill the void of her once married life, she set off an online phenomenon.
David Irvine was once our man in Beijing, and he was perfectly qualified to chair the Foreign Investment Review Board in challenging times.
Being a parent has never been a prerequisite for political leadership … or for basic decency.
She may have been little known in her homeland, but Elsa Klensch was the biggest name in New York fashion for 40 years.
When Bolivian soldier Mario Teran was given the job of executing the communist rebel, his gaze made the sergeant ‘dizzy’.
The Ukrainian defence forces are up against one of the world’s biggest armies — but we should not take for granted that they cannot prevail.
As a medical student, Paul Farmer visited Haiti. It changed him -and poor people in many countries had better lives as a result.
On the first day shy Autherine Lucy went to university, she set off riots and was expelled. Last month, a University of Alabama hall was named after her.
From allowing abortion to decriminalising homosexuality, we take for granted the radical changes Moss Cass sought to make.
David Banks was once deputy editor of The Australian, but he was more at home in the fiercely competitive world of London’s tabloids.
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