Henry Kissinger, influential and divisive US diplomat, dies aged 100

HENRY KISSINGER, THE relentlessly ambitious US diplomat whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape the post-World War II world, has died, his consulting firm said. He was 100. Kissinger, arguably the most identifiable secretary of state in modern times, died at his home in Connecticut, announced Kissinger Associates, through which the late diplomat grew wealthy helping businesses for decades after his government career. It said that Kissinger's family would hold a private funeral, with a memorial service to take place later in New York, where Kissinger grew up after his Jewish family fled Nazi Germany. The statement did…