LONDON, Sept 2 — Mohamed al-Fayed, the self-made Egyptian billionaire who bought the Harrods department store and promoted the discredited conspiracy theory that the British royal family was behind the death of his son and Princess Diana, has died, his family said.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 — Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub will be best remembered as a champion of the people on the issue of the rising cost of living by introducing various initiatives known as Payung Rahmah.

ZURICH, May 25 — Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday (May 24) at the age of 83.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 — The country's first Malay female professor Puan Sri Fatimah Hamid Don died at the age of 89 early this morning.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 — Ramly Abu Bakar, a popular newscaster and voice-over artist of the 70s and 80s, died in Rawang near here early today.

SYDNEY, April 23 — Barry Humphries, the comedian best known for his character Dame Edna Everage who blossomed from an Australian suburban housewife into a self-described gigastar, died on Saturday (April 22).

LOS ANGELES, Feb 16 — Actress Raquel Welch, who helped reshape the traditional image of the Hollywood sex symbol in an era when the movie industry was still overtly defining an idealized version of sensuality for mass consumption, died on Wednesday at the age of 82.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 — Former Federal Court Judge Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram is well-known for giving on-the-spot oral judgments and landmark rulings relating to constitutional, public, contract, and industrial law.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 30 — Pelé was three months shy of his 10th birthday when he made a promise to his father Dondinho.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — The country lost a respected and revered educational figure who did much in strengthening the higher education system with the death of the first director of the MARA Institute of Technology (ITM) Tun Arshad Ayub, 93, early today.