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Byline: Alan Cowell 'The recording angel of the common soldier,' she chronicled the war in seven books from the soldiers' perspective, drawing on 600 interviews with veterans. Mistakenly, they called [...]

''The recording angel of the common soldier,'' she chronicled the war in seven books from the soldiers' perspective, drawing on 600 interviews with veterans. Mistakenly, they called it the war [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell The prince's death is the monarchy's dress rehearsal for the far more consequential passing of the queen, a reckoning that seems likely to reverberate in British history. [...]

The prince's death is the monarchy's dress rehearsal for the far more consequential passing of the queen, a reckoning that seems likely to reverberate in British history. LONDON -- Elizabeth [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell Known widely among Kenyans as Mama Sarah, Ms. Obama was seen as the matriarch of Barack Obama's extended family in Africa. Sarah Onyango Obama, the stepgrandmother of [...]

Known widely among Kenyans as Mama Sarah, Ms. Obama was seen as the matriarch of Barack Obama's extended family in Africa. Sarah Onyango Obama, the stepgrandmother of former President Barack [...]

An author, physician and champion of equal rights, she was jailed by Anwar Sadat for her activism against the Egyptian government. Nawal el Saadawi, an Egyptian author, activist and physician [...]

LONDON -- LONDON -- The numbers may be trending downward, but the battle is no less intense. In the land of Churchill, it is likened sometimes to war, the Covid [...]

One of the resident birds at the Tower of London is feared to have died. Legend says at least six must be kept there, or the nation will fall. LONDON [...]

Alan Cowell, a longtime New York Times correspondent, recalls a different Europe, one of currency controls, cumbersome paperwork and burdensome cross-border regulations. LONDON -- An image from my sepia-toned memory [...]

Representing Nelson and Winnie Mandela among many others, Ms. Jana fought for equality in South Africa both in and out of the courtroom. Priscilla Jana, a forthright human rights lawyer [...]

He parachuted into occupied France and became an assistant to the legendary Jean Moulin, though only later did he learn Moulin's true identity. Daniel Cordier, one of the last surviving [...]

The 1974 bombings of two pubs, killing 21 people, have become a case of justice long delayed and an enduring symbol of The Troubles. LONDON -- The police have arrested [...]

From a newspaper perch, he championed the British ''elite,'' lamented the decline of ''the gentleman'' and made headlines himself with a word that can't be quoted. LONDON -- Peregrine Worsthorne, [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell From a newspaper perch, he championed the British 'elite,' lamented the decline of 'the gentleman' and made headlines himself with a word that can't be quoted. LONDON [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell A champion of human rights, he represented his client and friend in the so-called Rivonia trial of leaders of the African National Congress in the 1960s. George [...]

A champion of human rights, he represented his client and friend in the so-called Rivonia trial of leaders of the African National Congress in the 1960s. George Bizos, who fled [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell Her family became a target of South Africa's security police, facing 'constant surveillance, death threats, phone bugging,' but she fought on. Nyameka Goniwe, an activist, politician and [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell He gained rare entree into segregated Black communities and took pictures that bookended the career of Nelson Mandela. Jürgen Schadeberg, a German-born photographer who survived the turmoil [...]

She championed the advancement of women in business, and, in a career studded with precedent-setting appointments, she set her own example. LONDON -- Barbara Judge, a high-flying American-British lawyer, banker [...]

He gained rare entree into segregated Black communities and took pictures that bookended the career of Nelson Mandela. Jürgen Schadeberg, a German-born photographer who survived the turmoil of wartime Berlin [...]

Her family became a target of South Africa's security police, facing ''constant surveillance, death threats, phone bugging,'' but she fought on. Nyameka Goniwe, an activist, politician and social worker who [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell The politician's campaign for peace was seen as a driving force behind an end to 25 years of sectarian conflict in the territory. John Hume, a moderate [...]

The politician's campaign for peace was seen as a driving force behind an end to 25 years of sectarian conflict in the territory. John Hume, a moderate Roman Catholic politician [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell He was a convicted co-defendant with Mr. Mandela at the Rivonia Trial of 1964, which exposed to the world the injustices of South Africa's segregationist policies. Andrew [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell Her novel 'The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena' was compared to Alan Paton's 'Cry, the Beloved Country' in arousing white opinion against apartheid. She had Covid-19. This [...]

Her novel ''The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena'' was compared to Alan Paton's ''Cry, the Beloved Country'' in arousing white opinion against apartheid. She had Covid-19. This obituary is part [...]

Cowell is the first woman known to undergo sex reassignment surgery in Britain. But after a splash in the 1950s, she withdrew from public life and died in obscurity. Overlooked [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell He was the only white defendant to be convicted alongside Nelson Mandela and others in 1964 for resisting apartheid. He spent 22 years in prison. Denis Goldberg, [...]

He was the only white defendant to be convicted alongside Nelson Mandela and others in 1964 for resisting apartheid. He spent 22 years in prison. Denis Goldberg, one of two [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell His Sun City resort let black and white people mingle in the apartheid era, but some saw it as an emblem of all that was wrong with [...]

His Sun City resort let black and white people mingle in the apartheid era, but some saw it as an emblem of all that was wrong with that racial system. [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell A philosopher, author and columnist, he was an outspoken hero to conservatives in Britain and recently at the center of, in his words, a 'hate storm.' LONDON [...]

A philosopher, author and columnist, he was an outspoken hero to conservatives in Britain and recently at the center of, in his words, a ''hate storm.'' LONDON -- Roger Scruton, [...]

A decorated soldier in World War II, he helped reshape the study of war and was knighted in 1986 for his academic work. Michael Howard, an eminent military historian and [...]

It was April 1980, and I was among the crowd serenaded by Bob Marley and the Wailers when Britain's Union flag was lowered to be replaced by a new banner. [...]

It was April 1980, and I was among the crowd serenaded by Bob Marley and the Wailers when Britain's Union flag was lowered to be replaced by a new banner. [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell Until 2017, he was the only leader his country had known since independence in 1980. He presided over its long decline. Robert Mugabe, the first prime minister [...]

Robert Mugabe, the first prime minister and later president of independent Zimbabwe, who traded the mantle of liberator for the armor of a tyrant and presided over the decline of [...]

In the decades since the death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, his native Sweden has led the call for countries to disclose what they know about the air [...]

Byline: Alan Cowell Johnny Clegg, a British-born South African singer, songwriter and guitarist whose fusion of Western and African influences found an international audience and stood as an emblem of [...]

Johnny Clegg, a British-born South African singer, songwriter and guitarist whose fusion of Western and African influences found an international audience and stood as an emblem of resistance to the [...]

Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. This month we're adding the stories of important L.G.B.T.Q. figures. By [...]

LONDON -- They went by air and by sea across the Channel to the beaches of Normandy. In history's greatest amphibious invasion, almost 7,000 vessels and 11,500 airplanes supported the [...]

Dumiso Dabengwa, a Moscow-trained intelligence supremo and insurgent leader in Zimbabwe's liberation war, whose fortunes tracked Cold War rivalries and the political and ethnic score-settling that followed independence from Britain, [...]

It was a paroxysm that inscribed new chapters in the annals of genocide and turned a spotlight on the failure of international peacekeepers to come anywhere close to living up [...]

A few provocative tidbits have emerged about the mysterious 1961 death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, just months before the world body may forever close the book on [...]

LONDON -- Albert Finney, the British stage and film actor who defined an era's rage and frustration in dramas of blue-collar realism and social revolt and went on to find [...]

Shehu Shagari, the former president of Nigeria who sought to revive democratic rule only to be deposed by military officers impatient with his seeming inability to confront endemic corruption and [...]

Shehu Shagari, the former president of Nigeria who sought to revive democratic rule only to be deposed by military officers impatient with his seeming inability to confront endemic corruption and [...]