BREAKING: Play School host and actor 'Naughty John' Hamblin has died today aged 87. John was cherished by generations of Australians, presenting the show with a cheeky sense of humour for a whopping 29 years from 1970 to 1999. READ MORE: 9News
The leader presided over the Chernobyl meltdown and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev leaves behind one of the most influential and most controversial legacies of any world leader of the latter half of the 21st century.Margaret Urlich, the New Zealand-born singer whose powerful voice famously soars alongside Daryl Braithwaite's in No.
Rainey was a fixture in the local progressive movement for decades, demonstrating for racial justice, affordable housing and public transit, and against war, nuclear weapons and big banks. In November 2011, in the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Rainey, then 84, joined protesters in blocking downtown intersections. She was hit when Seattle police used pepper spray to clear the crowd.
Fellow protesters poured milk over her face to ease the sting, and a seattlepi.com photographer, Joshua Trujillo, captured a stunning image of her staring defiantly into the camera, her eyes red and milk dripping off her face.