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Novelist Fuentes dies, age 83

President mourns ‘universal Mexican writer’

Vanessa Friedman May 11, 2012

Stylist who reshaped the global industry

Vidal Sassoon May 11, 2012

Hair stylist who reshaped the industry

Benzion Netanyahu ©AFP May 4, 2012

Scholar who raised a hero and a prime minister

Benzion Netanyahu, historian and Zionist, 1910-2012

George Cowan ©AP Apr 27, 2012

Father of complexity science who turned community banker

Chemist who helped build the first nuclear reactor

Apr 20, 2012

Leader who embodied Algeria’s colonial trauma

From UK Apr 20, 2012

Obituary: Bert Weedon

The author of Play In A Day taught a generation to strum the guitar

Apr 16, 2012

Man who shaped modern Maersk dies

ferdinand alexander porsche Apr 13, 2012

Visionary who shaped Porsche 911 silhouette

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, car designer, 1935-2012

Apr 8, 2012

Leading Tiananmen-era dissident dies in US

Chinese activist Fang Lizhi has passed away aged 76

Apr 6, 2012

Iconoclast who fought to open up elite French education

Apr 5, 2012

Porsche scion and 911 designer dies

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche inspired bold design

Mar 23, 2012

Zimbabwe’s first black Rhodes scholar

From WORLD Mar 17, 2012

Egyptian Coptic Pope dies

Charismatic conservative who enjoyed respect beyond his flock

Mar 16, 2012

The man who saved the ozone layer from the aerosol can

F. Sherwood Rowland discovered the harmful nature of aerosols and other consumer products would destroy the ozone layer

Mar 9, 2012

American Aristotle who emphasised morals over money

Mar 5, 2012

Obituary: Norman St John-Stevas

Mar 1, 2012

Republicans hail rightwing pundit after sudden death

Andrew Breitbart, conservative polemicist, dead at 43

From COMPANIES Feb 29, 2012

Influential female banker Terri Dial dies

‘Human cyclone’ became one of industry’s most powerful

Feb 24, 2012

The bravest war journalist of her generation

Marie Colvin, war correspondent, 1956-2012

Comment Awards


The Financial Times has won four categories in the 2011 Comment Awards including best comment pages, business commentator: John Gapper, cultural commentator: Simon Kuper and foreign commentator: David Pilling

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