200 attend memorial service for Rod Beck
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Former San Francisco Giants manager Dusty Baker and current manager Bruce Bochy were among the estimated 200 people who attended the funeral Thursday for former major league pitcher Rod Beck.
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Queen Elizabeth II and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joined old warriors and widows of the fallen at a memorial service Thursday marking the 25th anniversary of the end of the Falkland Islands conflict.
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HUNDREDS of people came together on Sunday to lay wreaths and salute those who lost their lives during the two world wars and other conflicts.
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Hundreds of mourners paid their final respects Tuesday to a college student killed by a pepper-spray pellet fired by police during raucous celebrations after the Boston Red Sox won the American League pennant.
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Services are due to be held across Scotland to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the two world wars.
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Sir Bobby Charlton leads a Man United delegation at the unveiling of a memorial to those killed in the Munich air disaster.
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Tony Blair led the tributes to the murdered hostage Ken Bigley yesterday at a memorial service in Liverpool which was also attended by Cherie Blair and the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw.
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Heath Ledger's family joined celebrities and hundreds of other mourners Saturday to bid farewell to the actor at a memorial service in his Australian hometown that began with a haunting Aboriginal dirge.
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MANY mourned his death by crying, lighting candles, chanting their idol&#39;s name, or waving banners and small flags calling him President.
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Grammy Award-winning funk singer Rick James was laid to rest Saturday in his hometown, where 6,000 people waited for hours to pay their final respects.
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SAN DIEGO -- The news of Rod Beck's death, which occurred Saturday in his home in suburban Phoenix, arrived in the visitor's clubhouse before yesterday's game, his former Red Sox teammates learning of his death from members of the Padres who had also played with him.
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Americans paused Monday to remember Martin Luther King and his legacy. A commemorative service marking the King holiday was planned at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was preacher from 1960 until his assassination in 1968 at age 39, and thousands of people were expected to take part in an afternoon rally and march through downtown Atlanta.
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Nashville Predators center Sergei Zholtok was remembered at a funeral Monday by hundreds of hockey fans, many wearing Latvian national team jerseys with black armbands.
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-- Rod Beck, a relief pitcher who wore a bushy mustache while earning 286 career saves, was found dead Saturday. He was 38. Beck was found by police officers responding to a call to his home in suburban Phoenix, according to police department spokesman Andy Hill. Foul play is not suspected, though...
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A special memorial service is held at York Minster to honour 26 soldiers killed on a recent mission in Iraq.
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Relatives of nearly 200 people who died in a ferry accident off the Belgian coast 20 years ago attended a memorial Tuesday marking the anniversary of the disaster.
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A public memorial service for &quot;Crocodile Hunter&quot; Steve Irwin will be held next week following a private funeral at his beloved reptile park last weekend, friends and family have said.