Pensions not paid out owing to the death of the pension user can be inherited.

The antagonism between President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the now retired General Sarath Fonseka has been in the making for months.

The commission, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Eliyahu Winograd, has just published its interim report.

However, Qianlong continued to rule China behind the scenes under the grand title of Taishang Huang (Retired Emperor).

In May of this year, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi will replace another Italian, the retiring Tommaso Padoa Schioppa.

Bond is also told that the 'sex maniac' who was given the name of 'James Bond' when the original Bond retired has gone to work in television.

It is a month today since Mother introduced me to this Chick! That is how João Silvestrini, a retired Brazilian man, named the video he shot to introduce his friend, a hummingbird chick, to Facebook.

This path might leave a retirement with few resources for him and his family, little in the way of prestige or a platform from which to speak, and perhaps persecution by his successors.

Nothing different could be said about Villegas, Pearl, or Mora, three of the people who will be permanently seated at the table.

Greenpeace began the protests against Australian whaling, and the government appointed Sydney Frost, a retired judge, to head an inquiry into the practice.

Writing in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs , Shirl McArthur, a retired US Foreign Service officer, estimates that direct US aid to Israel between 1949 and 2006 totaled 108 billion.

Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general who challenged Obasanjo for the presidency in 2003 and lost, has said that he will try again in 2007 on the platform of the All Nigeria People s Party (ANPP), the second largest party.

In the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered wise advice to the next US president upon his retirement. Israel and Palestine have become, he said, the hopeless and bloody prism through which American diplomacy often seems to see the world.

Key US foreign policymakers now openly contradict conclusions reached last year by the Independent Task Force on Chinese Military Power headed by former defense secretary Harold Brown and retired admiral Joseph Prueher.

And very recently, retired General Mauro Enrique Tello Quinones, one of the most decorated officers in the Mexican army, was abducted, tortured, and killed less than a week after assuming a new position as anti drug chief in the resort city of Cancun.