John Hume, the Northern Irish politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his pivotal role in ending decades of violence in the British province, has died aged 83.
Joe Ruby, one of the masterminds behind Scooby-Doo has passed away at the age of 87. The animation writer and executive diedof natural causes Wednesday in Westlake Village, California. Ruby’s original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? was created in 1969 and involved a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo and his human companions solving mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures. Ruby was born in Los Angeles in 1933.