Here is a roll call of some noteworthy figures who died in 2024 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available): ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya ...

Born in 1908, she raised four children, ran a family textile factory during World War II, and remained an avid hiker into her ...

New Zealand's first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay ...

He will be sentenced on Jan. 10, shortly before his inauguration, but is unlikely to face jail time or other penalties. United Statescategory Even before US alcohol warning, younger Americans were ...

For more than five decades, the World Bank’s premier annual publication on debt, now titled the International Debt Report (IDR), along with the associated International Debt Statistics (IDS) database, ...