Matthew Bannister on Dick Cheney, the Republican politician who was Vice President under George W Bush and played key roles in both Gulf Wars. Yvonne Brewster, the Jamaican-born director and actor who ...

The breakthrough turned the Nobel Prize-winning biologist into a hallowed figure in the world of science. But he later faced ...

Dick Cheney, one of America’s most powerful and polarizing vice presidents, defied his party in his final years by rejecting ...

Matthew Bannister tells the life stories of people who have recently died, from the rich and famous to unsung but significant.