British film director Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for The English Patient, died in a London hospital on Tuesday after a short illness, his agent said. He was 54. Minghella died from complications following surgery last week for cancer of the tonsils and neck, agent Leslee Dart said.
Britain’s former prime minister Margaret Thatcher is due to leave hospital later on Saturday, her spokesperson said. The 82-year-old Thatcher was taken to a south London hospital on Friday for precautionary medical tests. ”She has just been given the all clear,” the spokesperson said.