She is survived by her husband, ex-US Presdient George Herbert Walker Bush, five children -- including former President George W. Bush -- 17 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Sarah Palin may fancy her chances in the next United States presidential 2012 polls, but the former American first lady Barbara Bush is not her biggest fan. Barbara Bush doesn't appear to think much of Palin's White House aspirations saying the former Alaska governor should "stay in her home state".
Usha Chilukuri Vance, Republican vice presidential candidate J D Vance's wife, introduced her husband before he spoke at the Republican National Convention.
The 41st US president held his post from 1989 and 1993.
"Explore your passions. Learn who you are. Make mistakes -- you are allowed to," said Bush sisters in their letter to Obama girls.
Reagan, who denounced the then USSR as the 'evil empire', was won over by the charm of the Soviet Union's final leader, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.
With a rich political and personal legacy, George Herbert Walker Bush left no shortage of memorable photos from his time both in and out of office. Bush died at the age of 94. The 41st US president, congressman, Central Intelligence Agency director and oil tycoon was also father to the 43rd president -- George W Bush. The younger Bush in a statement remembered his father as "a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for." Delving into archives here are the US former president's most memorable days.
Bush's remains will lie in state in the US Capitol Rotunda till Wednesday, when he will be honoured with state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral.
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The former president will have two funerals -- a state funeral at the National Cathedral and a local funeral at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston.
Carter was in politics, but not a politician, certainly not a transactional politician, points out Shreekant Sambrani.
On Monday, John Ellis Bush announced he was entering the US presidential race. Here are eight things to know about him.
Some of the memorable inaugural ball gowns through the years.
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Does Mrs Donald Trump realise that her immediate predecessor, Michelle Obama, is not the only hard act to follow, wonders Kanika Datta.
Image of Condi Rice's testimony to Senate on the plan to send more troops to Iraq.
Other countries need not be worried by Trump putting America first, says B S Raghavan. 'That is what the imperative duty is of everyone heading his country's government: To put his own country first, and make it great.' 'That is what Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping, Theresa May, Angela Merkel, Shinzo Abe and all the democratically elected heads of governments, with the interest of their people at heart, are doing.'
'He grew up poor and faced racism as he worked to become one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Hank never let the hatred he faced consume him.'
Sherin was confirmed dead by US police on Tuesday after over two weeks of investigation. She was missing since October 7.
'There appears to be in the Indian polity a link between being Single and being of prime ministerial timber. It is a trend, a preponderance -- not a statistical verity,' says Dr Shashi K Pande.
