Tim Cook stepped down Monday as CEO of Apple, a position he has held since August 2011, when Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO just months before his death.
Cook, building upon the innovation of the Jobs era, grew Apple’s market capitalization more than tenfold during his tenure.
Cook steps down at a pivotal time for the company as Apple pursues a more cautious, device-integrated AI strategy while competitors race ahead with large-scale generative AI services.
Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said Monday morning that 903 bodies had been recovered amid the disastrous flooding along the Nepalese-Chinese border, with over four thousand people remaining missing. Chinese authorities reported 16 dead and 546 missing in Gyirong County in the Tibet Autonomous Region as of Saturday evening.
Chinese officials said a glacier on the south slope of Mount Langtang Lirung in Nepal fractured at an elevation of about 5,200 meters, triggering an ice-rock avalanche that scoured the mountainside and developed into a massive debris flow. Chinese scientists said the flow reached Gyirong Port in about six to seven minutes.
A barrier lake formed by the landslide had largely drained by Sunday, Chinese authorities said, but a new landslide farther downstream created another barrier and lake, prompting continued monitoring and safety measures. Nepali scientists have also been examining the chain of events behind the flooding.
Indian, Chinese and South Korean tunnel-rescue specialists were mobilized over the weekend to support the search and rescue effort. Further rain and rising river levels remained a threat in affected areas.
Tim Curry, the English actor whose relish for outsize characters made Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Pennywise the Clown fixtures of popular culture, died on Aug. 25 at his home in the Toluca Lake section of Los Angeles. He was 80.
His longtime manager, Marcia Hurwitz, confirmed the death through a publicist with no cause was given, but Curry had previously suffered a debilitating stroke in 2012, limiting his mobility.
Born April 19, 1946, in Grappenhall, Cheshire, he was the son of a Royal Navy chaplain who died when he was 12. He studied English and drama at the University of Birmingham and joined the original London cast of "Hair.” He achieved international fame in the 1975 film ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ which initially flopped in its initial release before becoming a midnight-movie staple. He also appeared in the films "Clue," "Legend" and "Home Alone 2," and played Pennywise the Clown in the 1990 miniseries "It."
Curry later appeared in several children’s entertainment pieces, including as Long John Silver in “Muppet’s Treasure Island” and as Nigel Thornberry in the “The Wild Thornberrys.”
He received three Tony nominations and two Olivier nominations, and won a 1991 Daytime Emmy for voice work. His memoir, "Vagabond," was published last year. Curry never married and had no children.
King Harald V of Norway, Europe's oldest reigning monarch, died Friday at Oslo University Hospital at 89. The palace said he had been admitted on Aug. 17 with fluid retention, a complication of cortisone treatment for a blood disorder, and that he later developed an infection.
Born Feb. 21, 1937, at Skaugum in Asker, he was the first Norwegian prince born in the country since Olav IV in 1370. After Germany's 1940 invasion he fled with his mother and two sisters to Sweden and then to the United States, while his father and grandfather went into exile in Britain. A lifelong sailor, he carried Norway's flag at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and competed again in 1968 and 1972, winning the One Ton Cup world championship in 1987. In 1968, after a nine-year courtship, he married Sonja Haraldsen, a commoner, having worn down his father's long resistance to the marriage.
Harald succeeded his father Olav V on Jan. 17, 1991, and reigned for 35 years, declining to abdicate as several other again European monarchs elected. Among his most remembered addresses was the one he gave after Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 attacks, which killed 77 people; he told Norwegians he had faith that freedom was stronger than fear. He is survived by Queen Sonja, two children and five grandchildren. His son succeeds him as King Haakon VIII.
Actress Hayden Panettiere, known for roles in “Heroes” and “Nashville,” died August 16 in Greenville, South Carolina, at age 36. She was found unresponsive and in cardiac arrest at an apartment, where emergency personnel attempted resuscitation, authorities said.
The Greenville County Coroner’s Office said an autopsy found no signs of trauma that would have contributed to her death. Police said their preliminary investigation found no indications of foul play or suspicious circumstances. The cause and manner of death remain pending toxicology and other testing, and the investigation remains active.
Police records identify Panettiere’s on-again, off-again partner, Brian Hickerson, and his brother, Zach Hickerson, as being at the apartment. Hickerson showed officers a bag of medication Panettiere was taking. The report does not establish whether medication, drugs or alcohol contributed to her death. The Drug Enforcement Administration joined the investigation, according to sources cited by ABC News, though officials have not publicly explained its role.
Panettiere began acting as a child, rose to prominence as Claire Bennet on “Heroes,” and earned two Golden Globe nominations for playing Juliette Barnes on “Nashville.” Her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, was published in May.
Dolly Parton, the songwriter and performer who rose from poverty in the Smoky Mountains to become one of the most recognizable figure in country music, died Aug. 25 at 80 at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, surrounded by loved ones. Her publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said she died after a brief battle with cancer (the type was not disclosed).
Ms. Parton was born Jan. 19, 1946, in Sevier County, Tennessee, the fourth of 12 children of a sharecropper who could neither read nor write. She sang on local radio as a girl and moved to Nashville the day after graduating high school in 1964. Her breakthrough came on Porter Wagoner's television program. Wagoner continued producing her records for two more years after she left the program, and Parton marked her farewell to Wagoner with "I Will Always Love You," a song that became a worldwide standard after Whitney Houston recorded it in 1992. "Jolene," "Coat of Many Colors" and "9 to 5" rank among Parton’s other enduring compositions.
By most estimates she sold more than 100 million records, and she won 11 Grammy Awards, including a lifetime achievement honor. She acted in several films, including "9 to 5" and "Steel Magnolias."
Parton helped launch the Dollywood theme park in 1986, and in 1995 founded the Imagination Library, which has mailed more than 332 million books to children from birth to age 5 across five countries. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
Her husband of nearly 59 years, Carl Dean, died in March 2025.
