Court declares Steve Fossett legally dead: report
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Missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett was declared legally dead on Friday by a Chicago court five months after the airplane he was flying went missing over Nevada, U.S. media reported.
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Charles E. Scripps, longtime chairman of media company E.W. Scripps Co., died on Saturday, the company said.
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Maxime &quot;Max&quot; Faget, an intuitive engineer who became the chief architect of NASA&#39;s Mercury capsule and a key contributor to the design of three other manned spacecraft, has died.
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Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay, who was   convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy for his part in the   Houston-based company's collapse into bankruptcy in 2001, has   died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Colorado, a   Houston television station reported on Wednesday.
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Rescue crews searching for famed millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett stumbled upon more false leads Sunday when they discovered more plane wreckage &#151; but didn't find the missing aviator or his plane.
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"Law &amp; Order" star Jerry Orbach has died of prostate cancer at 69, a representative of the show said Wednesday.
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"Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine." Â A representative for the New York City medical examiner. Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment Jan. 22.
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Law and Order and Dirty Dancing actor Jerry Orbach dies of prostate cancer at the age of 69.
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(InfoWorld) - Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk is enlisting human eyes to help in an online search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett. Mechanical Turk is a Web service hosted by Amazon that lets anyone combine human intelligence with computer programs. The site aims to make up for a specific failure that persists in computers. "Humans still significantly outperform the most powerful computers at completing such simple tasks as identifying objects in photographs -- something children can do even before they learn to speak," the site explains. Friends of Fossett have set up a project on Mechanical Turk that could help identify the location of his airplane. Fossett set out in the plane in Nevada on Sept. 3 and hasn't been heard from since. Anyone can visit the Mechanical Turk site and lend a hand. Instructions on the page ask participants to view satellite images within Google Earth of the region where Fossett is thought to be. If they see anything that might resemble the airplane, they can mark the satellite image as containing an object that should be looked at more closely. Participants are asked to mark an image if they are at all suspicious that it contains something of interest. The project also cautions people not to worry that missing a detail will be tragic, because many people will look at the same image. Marked images will be further examined by experts. Mechanical Turk was also enlisted in the hunt for Jim Gray, a prominent computer scientist who went missing after setting off on his sail boat earlier this year. He has not been found. The Fossett effort also includes airplane and helicopter searchers. Fossett is well-known for being the first person to fly a plane solo around the world without refueling and also for making it around the world in a balloon. He has set 115 world records or world firsts, has swum the English Channel and completed the Iditarod, a dog sled race in Alaska, according to his Web site. While people helping to hunt for Fossett and Gray are volunteers, other Mechanical Turk projects pay participants, usually less than $0.25 per task. Mechanical Turk isn't the only online service that relies on human intelligence. ChaCha.com, a search engine launched last year, uses human "guides" to provide search results. A user inserts a search term and a remote worker searches for the answer, sending links to Web pages back to the user. The guide may be an expert in the subject the user is searching for so may be able to find better results than other search engines, according to ChaCha. Mahalo.com is another search site that uses people to compile results for common search terms. Workers weed out spam sites, pages with overbearing advertising and sites that use information without giving appropriate credit to the source.
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The search for missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett in the rugged and remote high Nevada desert was cut back on Monday.
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The Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, credited with setting the Beatles on the path to enlightenment, dies.
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An East Tennessee man claims the arthritis drug Vioxx killed his wife, seven weeks ago. The drug was pulled from store shelves this fall after a report proved Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes in some patients.
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Following the disappearance of Steve Fossett, Amazon.com and Google joined forces to coordinate a âdistributed searchâ for the millionaire aviator and adventurer. Welcome to the new world of search and rescue.
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Search continues for missing adventurer A police officer involved in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett - who went missing last Monday after taking off from hotelier Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, roughly 70 miles southeast of Reno, Nevada - has admitted he "may never be found", the BBC reports.â¦
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has  been officially announced dead in a Paris military hospital,  Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera said on Thursday.
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Searchers completed their first overnight hunt for Steve Fossett, organizers said today, after hopes were dashed that wreckage of the missing adventurer's plane had been found. Fossett vanished after taking off Monday from a ranch in Nevada.
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The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has died in Paris, France, officials confirm. Send us your comments.