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Pro wrestling icon the Iron Sheik dead at 81
The Iron Sheik, a former pro wrestler who relished playing a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport's biggest stars and later became a popular Twitter personality, died on Wednesday, the WWE said. He was 81.
Memories of the D-Day invasion revisited in France, 40 years later
Everyone who had been in Bernières-sur-Mer, France on June 6, 1944 remembered what it had been like to see the fateful D-Day invasion up close.
The 'superb' Canadians who bravely served at Juno Beach on D-Day
The CBC's Matthew Halton filed a dramatic account of the Canadians who went ashore at Juno Beach on D-Day.
Astrud Gilberto, singer behind The Girl from Ipanema, dead at 83
The birds that kept people off part of a P.E.I. beach
