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Fauja Singh, Master Runner at an Advanced Age, Is Dead

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:31:06 +0000

Competing in a marathon in 2011, he claimed to be 100, though his exact age remained a mystery. “I run while talking to God,” he said in explaining his endurance.

Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:45:23 +0000

Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled sharp edges and melancholy resolutions.

Muhammadu Buhari, Strongman President of Nigeria, Dies at 82

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:48:19 +0000

A former feared military leader, he won one democratic election in 2015, and another in 2019, but struggled to make good on promises to tackle corruption and terrorism.