Former Brazilian president Itamar Franco dies aged 81 Finnish Olympic champion skier Mika Myllylä found dead White farmer who beat Mugabe in court over land seizures, dies Renowned Indian guru Śrī Satya Sai Baba dies aged 84 Osama bin Laden killed in U.S. operation in Pakistan, White House says Indian court hands out 31 life sentences for race riot murders Dennis Ritchie, C programming language creator, dies aged 70 Canadian rapper Bad News Brown murdered in Montreal Australian politician Karen Overington dies aged 59 Russian geographer Andrey Kapitsa dies aged 80 Nguyen Cao Ky, former leader of South Vietnam, dies aged 80 Knight Foundation and Mozilla send geeks into newsrooms British painter Lucian Freud dies aged 88 Art Linkletter, creator of "Kids Say the Darndest Things", dies peacefully at 97 Australian ministers lose veto power over territory laws Canadian track and field coach Charlie Francis dies at age 61 Canadian-born actor Leslie Nielsen dies aged 84 Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri dies Hugh Carey, former New York Governor, dies aged 92 Australian jockey Stathi Katsidis found dead at age 31 South Korean court imprisons US soldier for raping teen Greek PM survives confidence vote Canadian actress Barbara Kent dies at age 103 Crown Prince Sultan of Saudi Arabia dies Scottish police force apologises for double-murder by sex offender UNESCO votes in favor of Palestine membership Owsley Stanley, icon of 1960s counterculture, dies at 76 Canadian professional wrestler Luna Vachon dies aged 48 Senior al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq killed Guyanese shadow finance minister Winston Murray dies aged 69 Funeral held for former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba Soviet human rights activist Yelena Bonner dies aged 88 Google Street View comes indoors Indian ghazal singer Jagjit Singh dies aged 70 Poll shows former U.S. Speaker Newt Gingrich as latest GOP presidential frontrunner Fire in Pichilemu, Chile kills family of five Former Governor-General of New Zealand Paul Reeves dies aged 78 France, Italy, UK sending military advisers to Libya; photojournalists killed in Misrata Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs dies aged 56 Right-to-die activists reveal euthanasia for Dutch patient with severe dementia State Senator Stewart Greenleaf enters New Hampshire primary Former Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri dies aged 74 Allied WWII spy Nancy Wake dies aged 98 Argentine admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera dies at age 85 Australian newspapers could be fined for breaches of media standards Military plane crashes in Chilean Juan Fernández Archipelago; reports say no survivors Charlie the smoking chimpanzee dies aged 52 American television producer Sherwood Schwartz dies aged 94 Sri Lankan cricketer Norton Fredrick dies aged 73
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