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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule, has died aged 90, the presidency said on Sunday. "The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa," President Cyril Ramaphosa said.

Stephen Hawking, the brightest star in the firmament of science, whose insights shaped modern cosmology and inspired global audiences in the millions, has died aged 76.

THE body of Slobodan Milosevic has been taken to a morgue at Amsterdam airport, en route to an unknown final resting place, while his family battles with Serbian officials over where to bury the former Yugoslav leader. Shortly after Milosevic's son Marko claimed the body, it was driven under a motorcycle escort to Schiphol airport, where it was due to remain overnight. A morgue official, Theo de Aardt, said he thought it would be flown to Moscow tomorrow. "We think to Russia but we don't know that for sure," he said. In Belgrade, a local court revoked a warrant for...