A television channel in Bangladesh is ordered to stop broadcasting interviews with the country’s most famous hangman, officials say.

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One of Britain’s most famous military aircraft, the Harrier, has conducted its last operational flight.

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Final flight for iconic Harrier jump jets

One of science’s most famous TV shows, Tomorrow’s World, was first broadcast live meaning it saw its fair share of unpredictable robots and unplanned explosions.

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When Tomorrow’s World went wrong

A “suspect” discovery at Arlington National Cemetery has led to a criminal investigation into how eight sets of human remains ended up in a single grave at America’s most famous military burial ground.

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8 sets of remains found in single Arlington grave

Some of the world’s most famous landmarks and music icons have been carved in ice at a show in Bruges, including figures of Elvis Presley, Madonna and Michael Jackson.

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King of cool: ‘Ice Elvis’ goes on display

IN JIANGYOU, CHINA For centuries, folks in Jiangyou City had only one claim to fame. They lived in the home town of one of China’s most famous poets, an 8th-century genius and drunkard called Li Bai, who is regarded with the same reverence in the East as Shakespeare is in the West.

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Desperate for tourists, Chinese cities fight for claims to fame

IN JIANGYOU, CHINA For centuries, folks in Jiangyou City had only one claim to fame. They lived in the home town of one of China’s most famous poets, an 8th-century genius and drunkard called Li Bai, who is regarded with the same reverence in the East as Shakespeare is in the West.

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Desperate for tourists, Chinese cities fight for claims to fame

Jerry Bock, who composed the scores for some of Broadway’s most famous musicals including Fiddler on the Roof and Fiorello!, dies.

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Fiddler on the Roof composer dies

Theodore Sorensen, adviser to John F. Kennedy, died Sunday in New York. He was 82. Sorensen helped write some of Kennedy’s most famous speeches, coining the line “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” among…

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JFK Adviser Theodore Sorensen Dies at 82

Veteran US actor Tom Bosley, most famous for his role in the 1970s TV series Happy Days, has dies at the age of 83, his agent says.

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Happy Days actor Tom Bosley dies

One of England’s most famous landmarks, the Uffington White Horse, is caught up in an identity battle after it was suggested it could be a dog.

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Is White Horse dog theory barking mad?

The most famous comic you’ve never heard of

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Eddie who?

The Battle of Britain is being commemorated by a reading of one of Churchill’s most famous speeches and a fly-past at Whitehall.

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Churchill’s WWII ‘Few’ remembered