Former ICI chairman Harvey-Jones dies aged 83
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Flamboyant industrialist John Harvey-Jones -- one of Britain's most celebrated businessmen -- has died at the age of 83.
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SHEIKH Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, died yesterday after more than three decades in power.
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"I had no training or experience ... ."  Anita Roddick, founder of the international Body Shop cosmetics chain, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64.Roddick, who died at a hospital in Chichester, had revealed in February that she contracted hepatitis C through a blood transfusion while giving birth to a daughter in 1971. She made the announcement after being named head of the British charity Hepatitis C Trust.The business woman was lauded as the 'Queen of Green' for trailblazing business practices that sought to be environmentally friendly and won her renown in her native England and around the world. Read more
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LOS ANGELES - Billionaire Marvin Davis, a former oilman who sold his 20th Century Fox studios to Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s, died Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 79...
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John Inman, famous for his role as an eccentric shop assistant in the BBC comedy ÃÂÃÂAre You Being Served?' has died at the age of 71, his manager said Thursday.
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Lord James Hanson, a wealthy industrialist whose business prospered by acquiring poorly run, low-tech companies and turning them into money makers, died after a long battle with cancer, his spokesman said. He was 82.
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Former Tomorrow's World presenter Raymond Baxter dies in hospital at the age of 84.
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The chief executive and chairman of Marsh &amp; McLennan Companies, the world&#39;s biggest broker of insurance, stepped down today, less than two weeks after his company was accused of cheating customers.
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Like the rest of the world, we were shocked to learn that Russell Jones, the rapper best known to the world as Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard, died suddenly on Saturday (November 13) afternoon.
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Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop cosmetics chain, died on Monday evening after suffering a major brain haemorrhage, her family said.
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Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, who used her international cosmetics chain to promote eco-friendly practices long before they were widely fashionable, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, died over the weekend in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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CAIRO - Shiekh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates since the nation&#39;s independence from Britain in 1971, died Tuesday, Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite television reported.
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A terminally ill baby in Britain whose life-saving treatment was withheld in a high-profile legal case has died, prompting angry calls for an inquiry from the baby's family.
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Former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, who launched socialist India on the path of free-market reforms in the 1990s, died two weeks after suffering a heart attack.
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Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim dies of heart failure, Austrian media reports.
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SHARES in ICI soared to an eight-year high today as the City today bet big on a takeover battle breaking out over the Dulux paints group.