Additions and updates - Hero file

A short biography and background note on Lech Walesa. Updated 5 June 2013 to report on Walesa's recent comments about homosexuals in the Polish parliament and to edit the "comment" at the end of the profile.

A short biography and background note on Rosa Parks. Updated 25 May 2013 to note the unveiling of a bronze statue of Parks in the Statuary Hall at the US Capitol on 27 February 2013, and to add a 'More information' link to an article on Parks at Salon.com.

A short biography and background note on Ho Chi Minh. Updated 12 May 2013 to revise down to 700,000 the figure for the number killed in Cambodia and Laos as a consequence of the spread of the Vietnam War.

A short biography and background note on Charles de Gaulle. Updated 30 April 2013 to include a 'More information' link to The Audacity of de Gaulle at the Hoover Institution.

A short biography and background note on Rigoberta Menchú Tum. Updated 4 April 2013 to include information about the start of Efraín Ríos Montt's trial on charges of genocide and war crimes.

A short biography and background note on Mohammed Mossadegh. Updated 17 March 2013 with various minor text edits and typographical corrections.

A short biography and background note on Aung San Suu Kyi. Updated 7 February 2013 to note Suu Kyi's trip to Hawaii and South Korea at the end of January.

A short biography and background note on Bishop Carlos Belo. Updated 27 January 2013 to include information about the winding up of the UN Mission of Support in East Timor and the withdrawal of the International Stabilisation Force.

A short biography and background note on Xanana Gusmao. Updated 27 January 2013 to include information about the winding up of the UN Mission of Support in East Timor and the withdrawal of the International Stabilisation Force.

A short biography and background note on José Ramos-Horta. Updated 27 January 2013 to include information about the winding up of the UN Mission of Support in East Timor and the withdrawal of the International Stabilisation Force.

A short biography and background note on Vaclav Havel. Updated 18 January 2013 to note that the international airport at Prague was renamed to honour Havel on 5 October 2012, the 76th anniversary of the late president's birth.

A short biography and background note on Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Updated 15 January 2013 to note Tutu's criticisms of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the South African Government.

A short biography and background note on Raoul Wallenberg. Updated 7 January 2013 to note the announcement by the Swedish Government that Wallenberg will be honoured each year on 27 August with an annual commemoration day.

A short biography and background note on Nelson Mandela. Updated 3 January 2013 to note the issuing of new South African bank notes bearing Mandela's image.

A short biography and background note on Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. Updated 2 January 2013 to include further information about the 2012 Templeton Prize and to note the resignation of the Dalai Lama's two envoys to China.

A short biography and background note on Count Claus von Stauffenberg. Updated 28 August 2012 to correct the figure for the number of German-led troops killed at Stalingrad.

A short biography and background note on Georgy Zhukov. Updated 28 August 2012 to correct the figure for the number of German-led troops killed at Stalingrad.

A short biography and background note on Winston Churchill. Updated 28 August 2012 to correct the figure for the number of Triple Entente troops killed at Gallipoli.

A short biography and background note on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Updated 28 August 2012 to correct the figures for the number of Turk and Triple Entente troops killed at Gallipoli.

A short biography and background note on Andrei Sakharov. Updated 22 March 2012 to replace image with image from Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org)