Crossings

Vienna-based Franz Cardinal Konig, 98, a liberal cleric twice in the running for papacy, dies.

William Pickering, helmsman of the US space programme, dies at 95.He launched America’s first satellite Explorer I and steered NASA’s manned missions to the moon and Venus and Mars probes.

Iraqi Zaha Hadid, whose modernist lines gave shape to the Millennium Dome’s Mind Zone, is the first woman to win architecture’s Nobel, Pritzker.

John Pople, 1998 co-Nobelist for chemistry, dies at 78. His program is used in climatic and AIDS studies.