Steve Shickles

AP - Arif Ali, regional product director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for The Associated Press, died of cancer at his home Thursday. He was 46.

AP - A funeral service was held Thursday for Bertram “Jimmy” James, one of the few British prisoners to avoid being executed for joining in the “great escape” from a German prison in World War II.

AP - The Rev. Marcial Maciel, a Mexican priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ religious order and was disciplined by Pope Benedict XVI after sex abuse allegations, has died in the United States, his order said Thursday. He was 87.

AP - Robert M. Ball

AP - Margaret Truman, the only child of former President Harry S. Truman and a concert singer, actress, radio and TV personality, and mystery writer, died Tuesday. She was 83.

AP - Zhang Hanzhi, an elegant Chinese diplomat who was Mao Zedong’s English tutor and U.S. President Richard Nixon’s interpreter during his historic 1972 trip to China, has died. She was 72.

AP - Zhang Hanzhi, an elegant Chinese diplomat who was Mao Zedong’s English tutor and an interpreter during the historic 1972 meeting between the Communist leader and U.S. President Richard Nixon, has died. She was 72.

AP - Hundreds of mourners, many sobbing, gathered Monday at Athens’ cathedral to file past the remains of Archbishop Christodoulos, the first leader of Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church to welcome a Catholic pope to Athens in 1,300 years.

AP - Thousands of believers were in mourning Monday following the death of Gordon B. Hinckley, the humble head of the Mormon church who added millions of new members and labored long to burnish the faith’s image as a world religion. An announcement of his successor was not expected for days.

AP - Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.