MONTRÉAL, Canada (NV) - Đại Lão Hòa Thượng Thích Tâm Châu, thượng thủ Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam Trên Thế Giới, vừa viên tịch vào lúc 10 giờ 15 phút sáng Thứ Năm, 20 Tháng Tám, tại tổ đình Từ Quang, Montréal, Canada, trụ thế 95 năm.
Ngài nhập đạo năm 11 tuổi.
Qua những năm tháng tu học, lên các giới phẩm: Sa Di, Tỳ Khưu, Bồ Tát, ngài đã đảm đương nhiều chức vụ trong Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam và thế giới như thành viên sáng lập Tổng Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam tại Huế năm 1951; Ủy viên Nghi Lễ, Hội Đồng Trị Sự Tổng Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam năm 1951; Phó chủ tịch Hội Đồng Trị Sự Giáo Hội Tăng Già Toàn Quốc Việt Nam năm 1952; Chủ tịch Giáo Hội Tăng Già Bắc Việt tại Miền Nam năm 1955; Phó chủ tịch Tổng Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam năm 1956; Chủ tịch Ủy Ban Liên Phái Phật Giáo Chống Phim Sakya, đầu năm 1963; Chủ tịch Ủy Ban Liên Phái Bảo Vệ Phật Giáo, Tháng Năm, 1963; Viện trưởng Viện Hóa Đạo Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam Thống Nhất năm 1964; Sáng lập viên kiêm phó chủ tịch Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Tăng Già Thế Giới năm 1964; Chủ tịch Hội Phật Giáo Phụng Sự Xã Hội Thế Giới năm 1969; Chủ tịch Hội Phật Giáo Liên Hiệp Thế Giới năm 1970 (tại Seoul, Nam Hàn); Thượng thủ Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam Trên Quốc Tế (1979-1984); Thượng thủ Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam Trên Thế Giới từ năm 1984. Đệ nhất thành viên Hội Đồng Trưởng Lão Giáo Hội Phật Tăng Già Thế Giới từ năm 1989.

Alan Cheuse, a late-blooming author who published his first short story just before his 40th birthday and went on to write two dozen books, but who became even better known as a longtime book critic for NPR, died on July 31 in San Jose, Calif. He was 75.
"Live as much as you can, read as much as you can, and write as much as you can," Mr. Cheuse taught would-be authors. He practiced what he professed.

Robert Conquest, a historian whose landmark studies of the Stalinist purges and the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s documented the horrors perpetrated by the Soviet regime against its own citizens, died on Monday in Stanford, Calif. He was 98.
The scope of Stalin's purges was laid out: seven million people arrested in the peak years, 1937 and 1938; one million executed; two million dead in the concentration camps. Mr. Conquest estimated the death toll for the Stalin era at no less than 20 million.

John Henry Holland, a computer scientist whose seminal work on genetic algorithms, or computer codes that mimic sexually reproducing organisms, proved crucial in the study of complex adaptive systems, a field he helped create, died on Aug. 9 at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 86.
Dr. Holland often said that he picked up some of his best ideas by talking to people outside his field — linguists, musicians and poets.
"My own idiosyncratic view is that the reason many scientists burn out early is that they dig very deep in one area and then they've gone as far as it's humanly possible at that time and then can't easily cross over into other areas," he said in a 2006 interview. "I think at the heart of most creative science are well-thought-out metaphors, and cross-disciplinary work is a rich source of metaphor."

NEW DELHI — An Indian scholar whose criticism of idol worship had angered religious groups was fatally shot Sunday, the police said.
The killing of the scholar, Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi, drew immediate comparisons to the 2013 murder of Dr. Narendra Dabholkar, who spent decades debunking gurus, sorcerers, healers and godmen.
Mr. Kalburgi, who taught classes in the Kannada language at Kannada University in northern Karnataka and was a former vice chancellor of the university, became the target of protests and threats last year, when he spoke out against idol worship and superstition at a public event.

Dr. Kelsey, who died on Friday at the age of 101, became a 20th-century American heroine for her role in the thalidomide case, celebrated not only for her vigilance, which spared the United States from widespread birth deformities, but also for giving rise to modern laws regulating pharmaceuticals.
In 1962, the F.D.A. set up a branch to test and regulate new drugs, and Dr. Kelsey was put in charge of it. Later, she became director of the agency's Office of Scientific Investigations, and in a distinguished 45-year career with the F.D.A. helped rewrite the nation's medical-testing regulations, strengthening protections for people and against medical conflicts of interest. The rules have been adopted worldwide.

GS.TS Lê Thị Luân – người đã mất 15 năm miệt mài nghiên cứu, sản xuất thành công vắc xin ngừa tiêu chảy do rotavirus vừa đột ngột qua đời khi mới 53 tuổi.
Sau 15 năm, tháng 5/2012, vắc xin ngừa rotavirus được Bộ Y tế cấp phép và đưa ra thị trường, tiến tới sẽ xuất khẩu.
Đây là lần đầu tiên Việt Nam chủ động tạo được toàn bộ chủng giống cho sản xuất vắc xin. Thành công này đã đưa Việt Nam trở thành nước thứ 2 tại châu Á và là nước thứ 4 trên thế giới (sau Mỹ, Bỉ, Trung Quốc) tự sản xuất được vắc xin ngừa virus Rota.

Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was called the matriarch of the voting rights movement — and whose photograph, showing her beaten, gassed and left for dead in the epochal civil rights march known as Bloody Sunday, appeared in newspapers and magazines round the world in 1965 — died on Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala. She was 104.
Bloody Sunday took place on March 7, 1965. As they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, some 600 black demonstrators, led by John Lewis and the Rev. Hosea Williams, were set upon by Alabama state troopers armed with tear gas, billy clubs and whips.
News coverage of Bloody Sunday — in which at least 17 demonstrators, including Mrs. Boynton Robinson, were hospitalized — was considered pivotal in winning wide popular support for the civil rights movement. After her release, Mrs. Boynton Robinson was a guest of honor at the White House on Aug. 6, 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the federal Voting Rights Act into law, an event seen as a direct consequence of the marches.

Jemera Rone, who abandoned a legal career on Wall Street in her 40s to focus instead on exposing and redressing human rights violations inEl Salvador and Sudan, died on July 29 in Washington. She was 71.
As counsel for Human Rights Watchfrom 1985 to 2006, Ms. Rone opened the organization's first foreign field office, in El Salvador, and was among the first investigators to document violations of international humanitarian law.
She lived in El Salvador full time during the country's civil war, challenging Washington's version of events in Latin America.

Francis Sejersted, a Norwegian historian who as the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee presided over several controversial awards, including the one shared by the Israeli leaders Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, died on Tuesday at his home in Oslo. He was 79.
The peace prize is distinct in that, in accordance with Nobel's will, the winner is selected not by a Swedish academic institution but by a five-person committee whose members are chosen by the Norwegian legislature, known as the Storting.