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A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description or account of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (rΓ©sumΓ©), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.

Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography.

An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An unauthorized biography is one written without such permission or participation. An autobiography is written by the person themselves, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter. (Full article...)

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4 April 2026 – Foreign relations of Italy
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrives in Qatar after previously visiting Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. She becomes the first leader of a European Union or NATO country to visit the Middle East since the start of the Iran war on February 28. (Arab News)
4 April 2026 – Protests against the 2026 Iran war
Protests break out across provinces in Iraq to demand an end to the aggression and end to the war in the region following calls for protests by Shiite National Movement leader Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr. (SABA)
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Cambodia extradites the former chairperson of Huione Group to China, where law enforcement authorities accuse him of involvement in a large-scale online fraud and money laundering network linked to Huione. Investigators identify him as an associate of suspected crime leader Chen Zhi, who was previously extradited in connection with the case. (AFP via The Star)
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NASA launches Artemis II from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, carrying astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, for a flyby of the Moon. (BBC News) (Space.com)
29 March 2026 – 2026 New Democratic Party leadership election
Avi Lewis is elected leader of Canada's New Democratic Party. (BBC)
27 March 2026 – Protests against the 2026 Iran war
Lawmakers from the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference protest outside the legislative assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, India, in solidarity with Iran and against the assassination of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei amidst the Iran war. Additionally, a major confrontation breaks out between INC lawmaker Irfan Hafiz Lone and BJP lawmaker Yudhvir Sethi during the protest. (Kashmir Convener) (Times of India)
Updated: 1:05, 5 April 2026

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"People always complain about muck-raking biographers saying 'Leave us our heroes.' 'Leave us our villains' is just as important."

β€” Alan Bennett

In his Diary, 11 February 1996

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