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Angel Reese (born May 6, 2002) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Nicknamed "Bayou Barbie" and "Chi Barbie", she played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins and LSU Tigers. Reese attended Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, where she was awarded McDonald's All-American honors in 2020 and was ranked the number two player in her class by ESPN. She joined the Maryland Terrapins as the highest-ranked recruit in program history, but her freshman season in 2020–21 was interrupted by a fractured right foot. She was named a third-team All-American by the Associated Press as a sophomore. In her junior season, Reese transferred to LSU and was a unanimous first-team All-American selection. She led LSU to its first national championship, where she was Most Outstanding Player. Reese set the NCAA single-season record in double-doubles and the SEC single-season record in rebounds. As a senior, she was named SEC Player of the Year and an All-American. Reese was selected by the Chicago Sky with the seventh overall pick in the 2024 WNBA draft. In her rookie season, she was named an WNBA All-Star and set the league single-season record in rebounds. At the international level, she helped the United States win a silver medal at the 2023 FIBA Women's AmeriCup. In 2025, she appeared on the cover of "Vogue" Life. Angel Reese was born on May 6, 2002, in Randallstown, Maryland, to Angel and Michael Reese. She learned how to play basketball from her mother at a very young age and grew up playing against her brother, Julian, in their driveway. Reese competed in a recreational league in Baltimore County, where her mother also played. She emerged as one of the best players in the city and had success playing above her age group and on boys' teams. Reese played the point guard position before having two growth spurts by her first year of high school. In addition to basketball, she took part in ballet, gymnastics, swimming and track during her childhood. Reese often attended Washington Mystics
Navid Jamshidi was born on October 26, 1983, in Tehran, Iran. He is an independent journalist and the editor-in-chief of "Asia" newspaper in Iran. Detention by the government. Navid Jamshidi has been arrested several times due to his journalism work. His arrests are linked to his reports and editorial activities in "Asia" newspaper. Each time, he was detained by authorities and faced legal charges related to freedom of speech and press. His cases have drawn attention from media and human rights organizations.
Zubin (also, The Zoubin short-range defense system) was unveiled in 2021 and is the ground-based version of the Navab system. This Iranian system consists of a 360-degree radar, a defense missile, and a command center. The radar has a detection range of 30 kilometers and an engagement range of 20 kilometers, and can detect 100 targets and engage 8 targets simultaneously. The Zubin system can counter a variety of cruise missiles, drones, low-altitude enemy fighters, and long-range munitions.
Apostle Success Samuel Haruna (born July 24, 1976) is a Nigerian Teacher, Author, Song Writer, and Entrepreneur. He is the president of Apostle Success Ministries (ASM) and the founding shepherd of House of Bliss Intl Churches (HOBIC). Education. Success Samuel Haruna was born on July 24, 1976, but hails from Okpotala/Abejukolo in the Omala Local Government area, Kogi, Nigeria. He is graduate from Shalom Bible Institute and WOFBI but holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Lagos, masters’ degrees (Masters in Social Psychology and Masters of International law and Diplomacy) from Unilag, and Criminology and Security Studies from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), He had his PhD in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of Ibadan. Career. Success Samuel Haruna is a philanthropist, novelist; the author of the Christian fiction novel ‘The Phoenix’, a poet with twenty-five published poems, and a songwriter with over five hundred songs. He is an author who has published eighteen books.  His sermons via the Web, are a model for young pastors in Nigeria and around the world. In 2021, he was named one of the Nigerian 10 most influential people by NBTlive. In 2022, Time Daily magazine recognized him as one of the sixth best Protestant preachers in the nation and conferred on him the title “The Nation’s Black Preachers.”. Success was cited by Yes magazine as one of the nation’s best Black preachers and he is known for a commitment to expository preaching with a strong theological grounding. In 2024, He was named by Legit among three pastors using music for evangelism.  Recognition and awards. He is an awardee of JOM Charity Award, He is a licensed peace and conflictologist with the Institute of Global Peace and Conflict Management. He is a certified global peace diplomat and a doctoral fellow of the institute, a member of the Nigerian Psychology Association (NPA), and a member of the National Association of Social Psychologists (NASP).  Personal life. Apostle Success is married to Funmilola Haruna.
Natseven TV Sdn Bhd, operating as NTV7 is a Malaysian free-to-air television channel. It is owned by Media Prima Berhad. It is the third private commercial TV station in Malaysia. The network focused on the urban area with various types of programmes, dramas and news. As of October 2021, NTV7 was the second most-watched television station in Malaysia with about 15% of its viewing share, together with TV9, despite the declining viewership of 2 free-to-air television channels. Programme NTV7. This is a list of television programmes currently, rerunning and formerly on NTV7 in Malaysia
Nation of Islam (NOI) is a Black nationalist religious movement founded in 1930, which played a considerable role in the Civil Rights Movement (1954‒68) in the United States (US). Since its founding, it has been a subject of controversy due to its promotion of ideas commonly seen as racist. Antisemitism. A common form of racism for which the NOI has been criticized is antisemitism. Several figureheads of the NOI, including Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan, expressed antisemitic views within their lifetime. Elijah Muhammad. In the 1960s, Elijah Muhammad, as the leader of the NOI, partnered with Neo-Nazi groups due to their mutual support for racial separatism. Muhammad worked with the KKK to buy farmland in the Deep South with a view to building Black-only colonies, one of which was founded as the Temple Farms, now Muhammad Farms, in Terrel County, Georgia. In the following 10 years, Elijah received huge funding from White supremacist Texas oil baron H. L. Hunt, which was used by Elijah to build luxurious homes for his own family. George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party's founder, praised Elijah Muhammad as "the Hitler of the Black man". Malcolm X. Malcolm X was an NOI member until March 8, 1964. Malcolm X had made a series of antisemitic speeches, which promoted the "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" among Ivy League-based academics and Black Americans. He accused Jews of being "bloodsuckers [...] perfecting the modern evil of neocolonialism". He also engaged in Holocaust denial by blaming Jews for having "brought it upon themselves", based on his distorted view of certain events. In 1961, he spoke at an NOI rally along with George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, who claimed that Black nationalism and White supremacy shared a common vision. Louis Farrakhan. NOI's leader Louis Farrakhan is well-known for his antisemitic views, despite his and his group's denial. Many believed Farrakhan to have been involved in the assassination of Malcolm X because Malcolm X reportedly abandoned his
CDU/CSU, unofficially the Union parties or the Union, is a centre-right Christian democratic and conservative political alliance of two political parties in Germany: the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).
On 21 February 2025 at around 20:40 (PET), parts of the roof of the Real Plaza Trujillo shopping center in Trujillo, Peru collapsed, causing eight people to die including children. It also left 84 people injured. The collapse mainly affected the mall's food court area and children's play section.
Elisabeth S. Vrba (May 27, 1942 – February 5, 2025) was an American paleontologist. She worked at Yale University. She created the turnover-pulse hypothesis. Vrba died in New Haven, Connecticut, on February 5, 2025 at the age of 82.
Holmes Rolston III (November 19, 1932 – February 12, 2025) was an American philosopher. He was a professor at Colorado State University. He was best known for his works to environmental ethics and the relationship between science and religion. Rolston won the 2003 Templeton Prize, awarded by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace. Rolston III died on February 12, 2025, at the age of 92.
Jacqueline Yvonne Meta van Maarsen (; 30 January 1929 – 13 February 2025) was a Dutch author and bookbinder. She was best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank. Her Christian mother was able to remove the "J" (Jew) signs from the family's identity cards during the Second World War which helped the van Maarsens escape the Nazis.  After the war, Van Maarsen found out how Anne Frank had not survived. Otto Frank, Anne's father, talked with Van Maarsen, and she was one of the first people to whom Otto Frank showed Anne's diary. In 1947, "The Diary of a Young Girl" was published. Van Maarsen died in Amsterdam on 13 February 2025, at the age of 96.
The Adriatic campaign of World War II. was a minor naval campaign fought between the armies and navies of Fascist Italy (later the RSI), Nazi Germany, the Independent State of Croatia, and other axis powers vs the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Greece, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (later the Yugoslav Partisans). and other allied powers during the Mediterranean and Middle East theatres of World War II. the campaign either started with the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939, or the Italian invasion of Greece the year later, the Greeks pushed the Italians back into Italian Albania and Commonwealth forces were sent to support the greeks. the axis powers Invaded Yugoslavia in 1941 to send reinforcements to help the Italians in Albania. Yugoslavia and Greece were both defeated and puppet states like the Hellenic State and the Independent State of Croatia were formed out of the occupied areas of the two countries, but resistance groups like the Yugoslav Partisans and EAM were formed to fight the axis. in 1943 the allies invaded Italy and gained a foothold in the south. in 1944 the Soviet Red Army crossed into Yugoslavia to help the partisans and liberated the capital Belgrade. and the axis forces in Greece and Albania evacuated to north Yugoslavia. in 1945 the allies pushed up the areas still controlled by the axis in Italy and Yugoslavia. on 8 May 1945 Germany Surrendered, ending World War II in the Mediterranean.
Cabool, Missouri is a small town in Missouri, 15 miles from Willow Springs, Missouri and Houston, Missouri.
RTM TV2 (stylised as tv2) is a Malaysian free-to-air public television channel owned and operated by the Radio Televisyen Malaysia, a broadcasting department of the Malaysian Government. Launched on 17 November 1969, TV2 is the second and second oldest TV station in Malaysia. The channel features mostly English, Mandarin and Tamil news and talk shows, the latter two languages were mainly produced for the dominant minority Chinese and Indian communities, whilst the English news functions for the nation's multiracial population whose dominant lingua franca or first language is the latter. It also offers some in-house, local and international entertainment programs, including reality shows, films and dramas as well as sports programming. History. Setup. The idea of a second television channel in Malaysia emerged as early as 1964. The previous year, Singapore gained two television channels (on channels 5 and 8). The plan for the second channel out of Kuala Lumpur was outlined as part of the arrival of equipment from the United Kingdom, which was set to arrive in April-May 1964. The second channel was scheduled to begin its services in June 1964. The then-Information Minister, Senu bin Abdul Rahman announced that Television Malaysia was going to start a second channel with the initial target date for its launch estimated to be on 8 February 1969. The plan was to coincide with the move of the television facilities to Bukit Puteri (Angkasapuri). The new channel would air programmes sponsored by commercial organisations. An attempt at starting an experimental broadcast was held in December 1968. The aim was not to disrupt the programming of the existing channel, which was temporarily blocked to air a Quran reading competition. The trial run of the "second channel" ran from 14 to 19 December and was limited to a six-day relay of the programming usually seen on the existing service. The channel broadcast on the following frequencies: The initial launch date scheduled for 8 February 1969 was ultimately scrapped, being delayed to the end of the year - initially, April was the new planned target. Recruitment for the new channel started in July in order to accelerate the process for its launch. The launch date was announced in
Geneviève Page (; born Geneviève Bonjean; 13 December 1927 – 14 February 2025) was a French actress. She was born in Paris. She retired in 2003. Her first movie role was in "Pas de pitié pour les femmes" (1951). She later appeared in "Foreign Intrigue" (1956), "Song Without End" (1960), "El Cid" (1961), "Grand Prix" (1966), "Belle de Jour" (1967) and "Mayerling" (1968). Page was also cast in Billy Wilder's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970). She appeared in Robert Altman's "Beyond Therapy" (1987). Page died in Paris on 14 February 2025, at the age of 97.
Alice Corinne Hirson (née Thorsell; March 10, 1929 – February 14, 2025) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles as Mavis Anderson in the CBS prime time soap opera "Dallas" and as Lois Morgan, the mother of the title character on the ABC sitcom "Ellen". Hirson died on February 14, 2025 at a retirement home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 95.
Carlos Diegues (also known as Cacá Diegues; 19 May 1940 – 14 February 2025) was a Brazilian movie director. He was best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement. In 2018, Diegues was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Diegues died from problems caused by surgery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 14 February 2025, at the age of 84.
Elsie Gunborg Johansson (1 May 1931 – 15 February 2025) was a Swedish writer. She is sometimes considered a proletarian writer. She became popular as a writer because of her "Nancy" trilogy ("Glasfåglarna", "Mosippan" and "Nancy"). It earned her several awards such as the Aniara Prize. Johansson also received the Litteris et Artibus award. Johansson died on 15 February 2025, at the age of 93.
The Socopo collared frog ("Mannophryne lamarcai") is a frog. It lives in the Serranía de Ziruma in Falcón and Zulia in Venezuela. Home. This frog is awake during the day and lives near streams on mountains. Some of the streams are there all year and some dry up for part of the year. People also see it in grassy places and near forests that are growing back, so scientists think it can live in places that human beings have changed. Scientists saw the frog between 600 and 1460 meters above sea level. The place where the frog lives touches many protected parks: Cuenca Alta de los Ríos Matícora y Cocuiza, Cuenca Alta y Media del Río Machango, Piedemonte Andino-Serranía de Misoa-Trujillo, Burro Negro Dams Protective Zone, Burro Negro National Hydraulic Reserve, and Maticora y Cocuiza Forest Area Under Protection. Young. The male frogs sit near rocks and call to the female frogs. Scientists think the female frog lays eggs on the dead leaves on the ground near streams. After the eggs hatch, the male frogs carry the tadpoles to water. Danger. Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in big danger of dying out and scientists in Venezuela says it is in very big danger. Human beings change the places where it lives to make farms and towns and places to raise animals. People also take water from streams and use chemicals to make plants grow, and that can hurt the frog too. Climate change can also hurt this frog.
Muhsin Hendricks (June 1967 – 15 February 2025) was a South African imam, Islamic scholar and LGBTQ activist. He was involved in many LGBTQ Muslim activism groups. He was a supporter of greater acceptance of LGBTQ people within Islam. He was seen as the world's first openly gay imam, having come out in 1996. Career. In 1996, Hendricks founded the Inner Circle, a support network helping gay Muslims to support their sexual orientation. They were founded in response to LGBTQ Muslims who felt excluded from mosques during Friday prayers. Hendricks took part in prayers, counselling and Muslim same-sex marriage ceremonies. Inner Circle was later known as Al-Fitrah Foundation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hendricks began posting TikToks with positive messages about love. Hendricks appeared in the 2007 documentary movie "A Jihad for Love". In 2022, he was the subject of "The Radical", a German documentary movie. Personal life. He married a woman in 1991, and had children with her before they divorced in 1996: later that year he came out as gay. He married a Hindu man in 2006. Assassination. Hendricks was killed after being shot on 15 February 2025 in Bethelsdorp, South Africa at the age of 57. The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) criticised Hendricks's killing and called on authorities to investigate the death. Initial reports claimed that he was murdered after reportedly officiating a lesbian wedding in Gqeberha.
Jorge Nuno de Lima Pinto da Costa (28 December 1937 – 15 February 2025) was a Portuguese sports businessman. He was president of Portuguese sports club Porto from 1982 until 2024. He was the president with most titles won (69) in the history of football and most days in charge in the world as a president of football. Pinto da Costa had a role in the Portuguese football corruption scandal "Apito Dourado". However he was found innocent of any possible corrupt actions in the scandal in April 2009. He received a two-year suspension and a €10,000 fine in May 2008. Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 2021. He died from the illness on 15 February 2025 in Porto, Portugal at the age of 87.
Yolanda Montes (January 3, 1932 – February 16, 2025), better known by her stage-name Tongolele, was a Mexican–American dancer, actress and vedette. She was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Montes was born in Spokane, Washington. Her first movie role was in the 1948 movie "Nocturne of Love". Montes died on February 16, 2025 in Puebla, Mexico at the age of 93.
Jamie Muir (30 November 1942 – 17 February 2025) was a Scottish painter and musician. He best known for his work as the percussionist in King Crimson from 1972 to 1973. He appeared on their fifth album "Larks' Tongues In Aspic". He also worked for Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, and Michael Giles. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Muir died in Cornwall, England, on 17 February 2025, at the age of 82.
Andreas Acrivos (13 June 1928 – 17 February 2025) was a Greek-American physicist. He was the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York. He was also the director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics. From 1982 to 1997, Acrivos was the editor-in-chief of Physics of Fluids. Acrivos died in Stanford, California on 17 February 2025, at the age of 96.
Marie-Chantal Depetris-Demaille (17 December 1941 – 18 February 2025) was a French foil fencer. She competed at the 1964, 1968, and 1972 Summer Olympics. She also competed at the 1971 Mediterranean Games where she won a gold medal. Deptris-Demaiile also won gold in the same event at the 1971 World Fencing Championships. Depetris-Demaille died on 18 February 2025, at the age of 83.
Hurricane (April 26, 2009 – February 18, 2025) was a Special Operations canine. He was part of the United States Secret Service. He was a black Belgian Malinois who was honored for his actions and bravery in 2014. He was thought to be the most decorated dog in American history. Responsibilities. Hurricane worked with his handler, Officer Marshall Mirarchi, for four years on the Secret Service. Hurricane's role was to protect the U.S. President, the U.S. Vice President, their families, and visiting world leaders. 2014 actions. On October 22, 2014, Hurricane protected President Barack Obama and the First Family from an intruder. The intruder had jumped over the secure fence of the White House and was heading towards the building. When the first attempt at stopping the intruder was did not work, Hurricane was ordered by Mirarchi to stop the intruder. Hurricane was punched and kicked around by the intruder many times, but the dog kept a hold of him until armed officers were able to arrest the intruder. Hurricane was medically retired from the U.S. Secret Service on September 20, 2016, because of injuries he got from the attack, and was adopted by Mirarchi. Death. On February 18, 2025, Hurricane died at the age of 15.
Souleymane Cissé (21 April 1940 – 19 February 2025) was a Malian movie director and screenwriter. He was thought to be one of the first generation of African filmmakers. He was called "Africa's greatest living filmmaker". His movie "Yeelen" has been called "the greatest African [movie] ever made."  Other movies that he directed were "Den muso" (1975), "Baara" (1978), "Finye" (1982), "Waati" (1995) and "Tell Me Who You Are" (2009). Career. His career began as an assistant projectionist for a documentary on the arrest of Patrice Lumumba. He studied at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.  He was the first director from sub-Saharan Africa to receive an award at the Cannes Film Festival. He was honored in 1987 for "Yeelen". He was awarded the Carrosse d'Or from the Cannes Film Festival in 2023. In April 2024, it was reported that Cissé's Carrosse d'Or award was stolen in Mali. Cissé was president of UCECAO, the Union of Creators and Entrepreneurs of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts of Western Africa. His younger brother is movie director Alioune Ifra Ndiaye. Death. Cissé died on 19 February 2025 at a hospital in Bamako, Mali at the age of 84.
Nicolás Antonio Castellanos Franco (18 February 1935 – 19 February 2025) was a Spanish Roman Catholic prelate and missionary. He was bishop of Palencia from 1978 to 1991. He was born in Mansilla del Páramo, Spain. Castellanos died on 19 February 2025 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, one day after his 90th birthday.
William Browder (January 6, 1934 – February 2025) was an American mathematician. His works focused in algebraic topology, differential topology and differential geometry. He was president of the American Mathematical Society from 1989 to 1991. Browder was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1980, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984, and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters in 1990. Browder died in February 2025 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 91.
Sir William Felix Browder, (born 23 April 1964) is an American-born British financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management. In 2005, his deportation from Russia became national news.
Evan Samuel Williams (15 July 1943 – 20 February 2025) was a Scottish footballer. He played as a goalkeeper for Third Lanark, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Aston Villa, Celtic, Clyde and Stranraer. Williams died on 20 February 2025, at the age of 81.
Ilkka Taneli Kuusisto (26 April 1933 – 20 February 2025) was a Finnish opera composer, conductor, choirmaster, and organist. He began his career as a church organist. He was choirmaster of the Finnish National Opera chorus and the Radio Symphony Chorus. He was general manager of the opera from 1984 and 1992. Kuusisto died on 20 February 2025, at the age of 91.