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)
Hedda Bolgar at 99 in the garden of her Brentwood home. She continued to see psychoanalysis patients until a few weeks before her death on Monday at 103. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Dr. Donald Morton is shown in 2000. A pioneer in cancer surgery and research, he died at the age of 79 on Jan. 10. (Jill Connelly / Associated Press)
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Scientist Colin Pillinger poses with a model of Beagle 2 in 2003. (Scott Barbour / Getty Images)
Glenn Stassen, left, and Mark Harlan, a teacher and a student at the Fuller Theological Seminary, show their support for the Palestinians during a march in Pasadena in 2002. (Stefano Paltera / For the Los Angeles Times)
Lucinda Marker throws her arm around her husband, John Tull, at a 2004 news conference in New York. Both were diagnosed with bubonic plague during a 2002 visit to the city. (Jennifer Szymaszek / Associated Press)
Masao Yoshida, left, talks to former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, center, at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in September 2011. Yoshida led the fight to bring the damaged plant under control after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Prime minister’s office of Japan / EPA)
