Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty had been the longest-serving finance minister among the Group of Seven leading industrial economies until resigning in March to return to the private sector. (Sean Kilpatrick / Associated Press)
British author Sue Townsend’s “Adrian Mole” diaries sold millions of copies. (Ben McMillan / EPA/Penguin Group)
Tony Benn was a committed British socialist who had the attention of Britons through a political career spanning more than five decades. He has died at 88. (Laurence Harris / Associated Press)
Foreign ministers Gyula Horn, right, representing Hungary, and Alois Mock, representing Austria, in 1989 cut through a barbed-wire fence on the common border of their countries, symbolizing the fall of the Iron Curtain. (Karoly Matusz / Associated Press)
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader, has died at age 90. Above, Jaruzelski in 2009 (Francois Mori / Associated Press)
Former Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki gesturing the ‘V’ sign during a 2012 press conference in Warsaw for his book ‘’The Year 1989 and the following years.’’ (BARTLOMIEJ ZBOROWSKI / EPA)
Chin Peng, left, is shown during negotiations in 1955 between his Communist Party of Malaya and the British-ruled Malaysian government. He fled to China in 1960 and was never allowed to return to Malaysia. (National Archives of Malaysia / AFP/Getty Images)
Former Soviet Foreign Minister and former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze shown in 1986. (AFP / Getty Images)
Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez, left, in 1981. Spain’s first democratically elected prime minister has died at 81. (Manuel Hernandez de Leon / EPA)
