Wilma Mankiller, former chief of the Cherokee Nation, died of cancer at her home in Adair,Oklahoma.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

But the past few weeks have been exceptionally busy, even for the home-building,peace-making, disease-battling former leader.

VOA: special.2010.10.15

The former stockbroker can now order his caretakers at a nursing home in Perth to stop feeding him.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

The miniseries, which was co-produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and Home Box Office or HBO cable network, explored relations within the former Iraqi dictator's family and inner circle.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

The company was Reader's Digest magazine, based in little Chappaqua, New York - the same town where former president Bill Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have a home.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

We will win the World Cup." The Ghana team bus paraded from the southeastern township of Soweto to the northern suburb of Melrose Arch, and the team later met former President Nelson Mandela at his home.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05