Hans Hollein, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect who breathed witty postmodernist life into everything from buildings to pianos to tea trays, died on Thursday in his native Vienna. He was 80.
Mr. Hollein’s buildings, which have been erected around the world, were, by design, beyond category, commingling Modernist and traditional aesthetics in sculptural, almost painterly ways. In 1985, he was named the seventh winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, widely regarded as the field’s Nobel.

Mr. García Márquez was a master of the literary genre known as magical realism, in which the miraculous and the real converge. In his novels and stories, storms rage for years, flowers drift from the skies, tyrants survive for centuries, priests levitate and corpses fail to decompose. And, more plausibly, lovers rekindle their passion after a half-century apart.
Like many Latin American intellectuals and artists, Mr. García Márquez felt impelled to speak out on the political issues of his day. He viewed the world from a left-wing perspective, bitterly opposing Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the right-wing Chilean dictator, and unswervingly supporting Fidel Castro in Cuba. Mr. Castro became such a close friend that Mr. García Márquez showed him drafts of his unpublished books.

Peter Matthiessen, a roving author and naturalist whose impassioned nonfiction explored the remote endangered wilds of the world and whose prizewinning fiction often placed his mysterious protagonists in the heart of them, died on Saturday at his home in Sagaponack, N.Y. He was 86.
Mr. Matthiessen was one of the last survivors of a generation of American writers who came of age after World War II and who all seemed to know one another, socializing in New York and on Long Island’s East End as a kind of movable literary salon peopled by the likes of William Styron, James Jones, Kurt Vonnegut and E. L. Doctorow.

Saigon was falling and the United States was fleeing, desperately evacuating the last of its embassy staff and C.I.A. officers in the final, chaotic hours of April 1975. Thomas Polgar, the Saigon station chief for the C.I.A., helped lead the effort, lifting people over fences and destroying files. Just before Mr. Polgar destroyed the cable-sending machine the agency had used to communicate, he took a moment to type a last dispatch.
“This will be final message from Saigon station,” Mr. Polgar wrote. “It has been a long and hard fight and we have lost. This experience, unique in the history of the United States, does not signal necessarily the demise of the United States as a world power.
“The severity of the defeat and the circumstances of it, however, would seem to call for a reassessment of the policies of niggardly half-measures which have characterized much of our participation here despite the commitment of manpower and resources, which were certainly generous. Those who fail to learn from history are forced to repeat it. Let us hope that we will not have another Vietnam experience and that we have learned our lesson.”
He concluded, “Saigon signing off.”

U Win Tin, a journalist, author and poet who became a leading opponent of the military rulers of Myanmar, where he was imprisoned and tortured for 19 years, died on Monday in Yangon, formerly Rangoon. Sources differ on whether he was 84 or 85.<br>Mr. Win Tin joined eight other political activists to form the National League for Democracy in 1988. Led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her human rights advocacy, the party won a landslide victory in national elections in 1990, but the governing generals refused to cede power.

Theo thống kê của bộ Thông tin Truyền thông, tính đến cuối năm 2013, Việt Nam có 838 cơ quan báo chí in, 92 báo điện tử, 67 đài phát thanh truyền, 1 hãng thông tấn quốc gia. Tất cả đều chịu sự quản lý chung của chính phủ

(Dân trí) - Thông tin từ Bộ GD-ĐT cho biết, thực hiện Quyết định số 37/2013/QĐ-TTg về việc điều chỉnh Quy hoạch mạng lưới các trường ĐH, CĐ giai đoạn 2006 - 2020, Bộ GD-ĐT dừng tiếp nhận hồ sơ đề nghị nâng cấp và thành lập mới trường ĐH, CĐ.

(Dân trí) - Ông Mai Văn Trinh - Cục trưởng Cục khảo thí và Kiểm định chất lượng (Bộ GD-ĐT) khẳng định với PV Dân trí: "Thời điểm này, Bộ GD-ĐT vẫn chưa chốt thời gian đăng ký môn tự chọn ở kỳ thi tốt nghiệp THPT".
Cũng theo ông Trinh, một số báo trích dẫn theo nguồn tin Cục Khảo thí và Kiểm định chất lượng Bộ GD-ĐT, thời gian để học sinh lớp 12 đăng ký môn thi tự chọn bắt đầu từ 17/3 đến hết ngày 17/4 là hoàn toàn sai sự thật. Cục khảo thí không có ai trao đổi, cung cấp thông tin như vậy cả.

(Dân trí) - Bộ GD-ĐT vừa có văn bản gửi các Sở GD-ĐT, Cục Nhà trường - Bộ Quốc phòng về hướng dẫn tổ chức thi tốt nghiệp THPT năm 2014. Lịch thi từ sáng 2/6 đến trưa 4/6.