Mohammad Zahir Shah, Former Afghan King, Dies at 92
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Mohammad Zahir Shah returned to Kabul from exile in 2002. He had been deposed in 1973 after a 40-year reign.
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Taliban fighters killed a former local official and four of his bodyguards in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, then killed 25 members of his family when they went to collect his body, relatives and officials said Monday.
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Sheik Abdul-Ameer al-Jamri, a spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shiite opposition who was jailed after riots against the country's Sunni leadership, died Monday of heart and kidney failure. He was 67.
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THE CEREMONY: Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a five-year term as Afghan president after winning the country&#39;s first vote for head of state.
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Chile's former military ruler General Augusto Pinochet has died at the age of 91, a Santiago hospital announces.
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Obituary: A victim, but also a culprit in a way, of Pakistan's chronic instability
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ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz expressed shock and condoled the demise of the president and founding father of United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahayan.
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Former Afghan King Mohammad Zahir Shah, whose 40-year reign coincided with one of the most peaceful periods in the country's recent history, died on Monday, aged 92.
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Millions mourned on Wednesday the death of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the ruler who transformed the United Arab Emirates from a desert country into one of the few development successes in the Arab world.
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Newspapers in the United Arab Emirates and across the Arab world pay tribute to Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan, the veteran UAE ruler who died on Tuesday after a long illness.
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Former Prime Minister Raymond Barre, one of France's most prominent centrist politicians, has died, his family said Saturday. He was 83.
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Former King Mohammad Zahir Shah, whose 40-year reign until his exile in 1973 coincided with one of the most peaceful periods in Afghanistan's recent history, died on Monday aged 92.
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Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, the Ruler of Abu Dhabi who died on Tuesday aged 86, was President of the United Arab Emirates and a moderate but visionary leader of his desert people.
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Former Indian Prime Minister P.V.  Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms in the early  1990s in the South Asian nation, died of heart failure on  Thursday, the government said.
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The 83-year-old former Prime Minister of India, Narasimha Rao, has died of cardiac failure in a New Delhi hospital. In 1991 Narasimha Rao became first outside the Nehru-Gandhi family India&#39;s prime minister.
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Former Indian prime minister, PV Narasimha Rao, has died at the age of 83 after a heart attack.
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One of the Taleban fighters who masterminded the kidnapping of 23 South Koreans in July has been killed, Afghan officials say.