A World Transformed.

News Items Part One.

1. Financial Times:

Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, was the last leader of the Soviet Union and its first and last state president. Although he ruled in Moscow for less than seven years, the consequences of his tenure rewrote the global order at the end of the 20th century. During his years in the Kremlin, from 1985 to 1991, he ended one-party c…