PM, dignitaries and plain folks attend funeral for former N.B. premier
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MONCTON, N.B. (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin, dignitaries and just plain folks gathered Tuesday to say goodbye to Louis J. Robichaud, a political giant known simply as "little Louis" to a generation of New Brunswickers.
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The mayor went to Queens to reach out to relatives and communities affected by the death.
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GARHI KHUDA BAKSH, Pakistan  - Chants of Koranic verses and somber hymns resonated throughout Benazir Bhutto's ancestral village in southern Pakistan on Thursday as thousands gathered at the assassinated former prime minister's tomb to mark a 40th and final day of mourning.
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President APJ Abdul Kalam, Vice-President Bhairon Singh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi were among the leaders who visited the residence of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao to pay tributes to him.
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GARHI KHUDA BAKSH, Pakistan  - Thousands of party faithful feted former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday as she visited her stronghold in southern Pakistan, days after an assassination bid that killed 139 people.
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Hundreds of tearful mourners have paid homage to &quot;Crocodile Hunter&quot; Steve Irwin following his shocking on-camera death as his family prepares to reveal details of his funeral.
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HALIFAX - Family members, politicians and military brass held a ceremony for Lieut. Chris Saunders in Halifax Sunday afternoon, after the submariner&#39;s body arrived from Ireland.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - Former premier Louis J. Robichaud, once described as the architect of modern New Brunswick, has died after a brief battle with cancer.
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CAIRO  - Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral in Cairo was held in a solemn atmosphere amid tight security, as presidents, kings and princes paid their final respects to the Palestinian leader, while crowds from the city of the veteran leader&#39;s birth were kept
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By Jennifer Latson, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 26--NEWPORT NEWS -- Friends and family of Robert Lamont Harper, 38, the man killed last week in a standoff with police, will hold a funeral for him Tuesday.
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There was little outpouring of grief at the funeral for Indonesia's longest-serving leader  -  only respect and a sense that an era had ended
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Thousands of mourners gather in the Lebanese capital for the funeral of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, killed in a car bombing.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of mourners, some praying and many in tears, filed past the coffin of Augusto Pinochet on Monday, paying their respects to a former dictator who divides Chilean public opinion in death as he did in life.
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As many as 30,000 Bangladeshis joined the funeral in the capital, Dhaka, of a leader of the opposition Awami League who died of injuries sustained in Saturday&#39;s grenade attack on a political rally, the British Broadcasting Corp.
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Hundreds of thousands of mourners made their way from the home of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to his burial place.
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GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH, Pakistan  - Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest next to her father in the family mausoleum on Friday after the opposition leader's assassination plunged Pakistan into crisis and triggered violent protests.
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A funeral is held for Beyers Naude, an Afrikaner who became a leading anti-apartheid campaigner.