Indonesian icons is a regular series highlighting notable people from throughout the country. In this installment, we are covering the man behind a beloved 1980s children’s character.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will be flying to space next month aboard the first human spaceflight launched by his rocket company, Blue Origin. Now more than 110,000 people have signed two petitions to bar him from returning to Earth.

The singer of reggae band Steven & Coconut Treez, Steven “Tepeng” Nugraha Kaligis, died on Tuesday morning after a battle with COVID-19. He was 46 years old.

Ons Jabeur beat Daria Kasatkina of Russia 7-5, 6-4 in an engrossing hour and a half tussle in Birmingham.

Harvey Weinstein can be extradited to California from New York to face rape and sexual assault charges.

Anand won his first world title aged 30, and enjoyed great rivalries with the likes of Russian champions Gary Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Soviet-born Israeli Boris Gelfand.

Indonesian badminton player Markis Kido passed away at 36 on Monday night, reportedly from a heart attack.

Veteran war correspondent Christiane Amanpour on Monday announced that she has recently undergone "major surgery" for ovarian cancer, and faced months of chemotherapy treatment.

A father allegedly killed his two young daughters at his house before dumping their bodies at sea off the Spanish island of Tenerife, according to a preliminary judicial investigation published on Saturday into the case which has shocked the nation.

A teenager who recorded the murder of George Floyd in a clear and unrelenting single shot with her cellphone was recognized on Friday by the arbiters of the highest honors in U.S. journalism.

The 70-year-old made a clear statement by wearing a jacket with the word "LOVE" on the back, as the couple met British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie on the eve of a G7 leaders' summit.

Just days after the birth of their second child, named after Queen Elizabeth, Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have become embroiled in a spat with the BBC, along with a threat of legal action, over whether they had consulted the monarch first.

Actor Simu Liu shared his feelings of unhappiness over Kim’s Convenience via his Facebook account on Wednesday. During the show, he felt there was lack of mentoring from the producing team. He also complained about the low pay for the cast even though the show was successful.  

Teenager Fatima Noori and her fellow pupils hug and pray as they gather in their Kabul classroom, just weeks after bombs exploded right outside the school gates, killing scores of their classmates.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced Sunday the birth of their daughter Lilibet Diana, who was born in California after a year of turmoil in Britain's royal family.

In February 1968 the Fab Four fetched up at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram (retreat) in northern India, seeking spirituality, new experiences and refuge from Beatlemania back home.

Before he was killed, Khet Thi's poems railed eloquently against Myanmar's sudden coup, joining a deluge of protest verse celebrating democracy demonstrators and defying the military's brutal war on words.

Stella Moris teamed up in Geneva with Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture, and Geneva mayor Frederique Perler to call for Assange release and the scrapping of extradition proceedings.

Trump was suspended from Facebook and Instagram after posting a video during the attack by his fired-up supporters challenging his election loss.

Armed with pioneering AI and a sharp nose for youth trends, Zhang Yiming revolutionised internet video with popular app TikTok and minted himself a fortune.

Indonesia's hijab-wearing, headbanging VOB count some of rock music's biggest stars among their fans, but the all-female heavy metal band faced a tougher battle in winning over their parents.

Naftali Bennett, Israel's likely next prime minister, is a self-made tech millionaire who dreams of annexing most of the occupied West Bank.

Once, Abraham Barberi was known as the "pastor of rappers," host of Christian hip hop concerts targeting young drug dealers in Mexico in hopes of putting them on a different path.

In 2018, Karin Kneissl, then Austria's foreign minister, made headlines when she invited Putin to her wedding and danced with him.

Some 120 drawings and more than 200 letters to his friend Max Brod are among the archives now available for public viewing, the project's curator Stefan Litte told AFP.

Malaysian teenager Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam's unexpected rise from anonymous pupil to national leader against school harassment began with a teacher allegedly joking about rape.

In an old clip from his time at Manchester United, former manager Jose Mourinho emphasized his team’s achievement of winning three trophies despite a seemingly bad season.

The small business jet crashed at around 11:00 am local time on Saturday, shortly after taking off from the Smyrna, Tennessee airport for Palm Beach, Florida, Rutherford County Fire & Rescue (RCFR) said on Facebook.

A spokeswoman for Johnson's Downing Street office declined to comment on the reports.

The co-founders of one of the world's largest private charitable foundations, filed for divorce earlier this month after 27 years of marriage but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together.