In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko.
In a short piece on FT Alphaville, El-Erian gave his take on the implications for global markets of the death of the former head of Al-Qaeda.
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At the extreme end of the scale, the consequences of head injury are death, persistent vegetative state or severe physical and mental disablement.
Police in Brazil are searching for the killers of the former head of a Sao Paulo death squad who was shot a month after being released from a lengthy jail term.
Those bullets were designed to be accurate to minimise the risk of an accidental head shot - the most common cause of death or injury from a rubber bullet.
He became the most prominent member in California, coined the use of the Death's Head logo, and was one of those responsible for security at the infamous Rolling Stones concert in Altamont in 1969.
The review will be lead by Albert Kirby, the former head of Merseyside CID who led the investigation into the death of toddler James Bulger.
He gave the cause of death as head injuries.
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has elected a new head six months after the death of the previous patriarch.
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The Independent Police Investigative Directorate said a postmortem showed the cause of death to be head injuries and internal bleeding.
This time out, Orlando Bloom plays a troubled young man who must head home to Kentucky after the sudden death of his father.
During World War II Mr Hartmann worked as a member of the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion at Germany's Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
But Paul Jesson's Sir Toby, belching and farting on a purple sofa with the doddering, death's-head Aguecheek of David Bradley, is no jolly knight.
"Martin Hartmann and other members of the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion were indispensable accomplices in the brutal crimes committed in the Nazi concentration camp system, " Eli Rosenbaum, head of the OSI, was quoted by Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz as saying.
The former head of Haringey Council children's services has returned to court over her sacking following the death of Baby P.
Archaeologists say their examination of the skeleton shows Richard met a violent death: They found evidence of 10 wounds -- eight to the head and two to the body -- which they believe were inflicted at or around the time of death.
He was head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame from 2001 to 2011, and was Chairman Emeritus at his death.
"The right approach to public health is to say it's incumbent on any new drug to show it is beneficial and has acceptable risk, " says Steven Nissen, head of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and one of the first to note the excesses in cancer death.
The latest example is that of General Humberto Gordon, the former head of the national intelligence agency, who on September 14th was charged with possible involvement in the death of a union leader.
Dr Cary said Mr Reeve suffered the "highest grade of head injuries", which led to his death.
Mr Tsvangirai was acquitted of treason, but for 20 months he had the possibility of a death penalty hanging over his head.
He was chosen by the Shiite clerical leadership in the 1990s to be the head religious figure in the country after the death of his predecessor.
The new head of the Catholic Church is usually elected after the death of his predecessor, and there is no public record of any previous meeting between an incumbent pope and a former pope.
"We just didn't execute down the stretch, " said Red Storm assistant coach Rico Hines, who ran the team for a second game while head coach Steve Lavin was away following the death of his father last weekend.
And now in "The Hothouse", written in 1958 but not staged until 1980, Mr Pinter plays the coarsest character of them all, Roote, the corrupt head of an indeterminate institution where the inmates and the staff are exploited to the point of torture and death, a theme he was to develop in a sparer and more political way in his later "Mountain Language".
Although she suffered a head injury and later died, the exact of cause of death remains unknown.
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Dimitri Itskov is head of the 2045 initiative, which he hopes can conquer death once and for all, in just 23 years, via the miracle of modern science.
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The methods used to embalm the head also matched techniques in use at the time of his death, said the scientists in a report published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
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