Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film "Shaft," has died, sheriff's officials in Memphis, Tennessee, say. Relatives found Hayes unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill. Hayes also voiced "Chef" for the animated series "South Park."DKK
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Bernie Mac's publicist says the actor and comedian has died. He was 50 years old.
Mac was recovering from pneumonia at the time of his death.
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said today his country is under "continuous Russian bombardments" and that Russian tanks are moving in. He accused Russia of targeting civilian populations as tensions over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict.DKK
Russian novelist and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose works detailed the horrors of Stalin's Soviet labor camps, has died at 89, Russian news agencies reported Monday.DKK
His son, Stepan Solzhenitsyn, told The Associated Press his father died of heart failure late Sunday at his home near Moscow, Russia.
Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 for "The First Circle," Alexander Solzhenitsyn was considered a moral voice for Russia. His works centered on issues of good and evil, materialism and salvation.
His three-volume "Gulag Archipelago" unveiled the horrors of the Soviet labor camps, where he himself was imprisoned for eight years.
All six airmen aboard the B-52 bomber that crashed Monday off Guam's northwest coast were killed, Air Force officials confirmed Wednesday.DKK
Aboard Raider 21 were Maj. Christopher M. Cooper, 33; Maj. Brent D. Williams, 37; Capt. Michael K. Dodson, 31; 1st Lt. Joshua D. Shepherd, 26; 1st Lt. Robert D Gerren, 32; and Col. George Martin.
The plane crashed about 30 miles northwest of Guam, the Air Force said in a statement.
Air Force crews switched from a rescue operation to a recovery operation over the 7,000-square-mile crash site, said Air Force spokeswoman Sgt. Ashleigh Bryant.
A joint-agency search continues for missing crew members following Monday’s crash of a B-52 bomber 48 kilometres to the northwest of Guam.Radio New Zeland
Bodies of two of the six Airmen on board the aircraft have been recovered.
Identities of the crew members are being withheld pending family notification.
The search for the remaining four missing crew, involving US Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and other U.S. and Guam agencies, is still underway.
Brigidaire General Douglas Owens, a commander of the US airforce’s 36th Wing in Guam, says the search has been thorough.
He sayd Coast Guard assets were on scene within 45 minutes of the accident, and the teamwork between local and federal agencies has been tremendous.
A board of officers is investigating the accident.
An Ohio State University graduate is one of six people who was onboard an Air Force B-52 when it crashed off the island of Guam Monday morning.
The B-52 bomber was en route to conduct a flyover at the Liberation Day parade when it crashed about 30 miles northwest of Apra Harbor at 9:45 a.m., the Air Force said. (...)
The family of Col. George Martin, a graduate of East High School and OSU Medical School, told 10TV News that he was on the plane, 10TV's Patrick Bell reported.
Martin has been a military doctor for more than 25 years and is second-in-command of the medical unit in Guam, his family said.
Martin also works as an astronaut physician for NASA.
The driver of a construction vehicle rammed and overturned cars in downtown Jerusalem on Tuesday, wounding four people before he was shot dead, police said.DKK
The attack was a chilling imitation of a similar incident early this month, when a Palestinian driver went on a rampage with his earth moving vehicle on a busy Jerusalem street, plowing into vehicles and pedestrians, killing three and wounding dozens before an off-duty soldier shot and killed him.
The identity of the driver in Tuesday's attack was not immediately clear. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But Israeli police called it a "terror attack."
The attack took place in a busy part of downtown Jerusalem, several hundred meters from the luxury hotel where U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama is supposed to stay Tuesday night as he kicks off a visit to Israel.
Minutes after the attack, the man's body was visible sprawled backward in the cabin of the yellow front loader. Sirens wailed in the background, and a police helicopter hovered overhead.
Three cars were heavily damaged, including one that was overturned.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police sealed off possible escape routes into predominantly Arab east Jerusalem and were searching for two suspects who fled the scene.
Israeli rescue services said they had evacuated one person whose leg was partially severed.
The U.S. Air Force continued to hold out hope of finding survivors Tuesday in the crash of a B-52 bomber off Guam, but a brigadier general said there was no evidence that any of the airmen were alive.DKK
Two bodies from the six-member crew were found after the crash Monday morning. An earlier U.S. Coast Guard report said three bodies were recovered, but spokesman Lt. John Titchen later said that was in error. No names of the plane's crew had been released.
"We've seen fuel in the water, oil slicks, some pieces of what look like a plane. This is right within the area where we had planned our searches," Titchen said. "We are now planning our searches to include wind and water current, any kind of drift that may happen to someone in the water."
The unarmed Air Force bomber had been making a swing around the island from U.S. Andersen Air Force Base for a celebratory fly-over of another part of the island as part of Guam Liberation Day celebrations. The holiday marks the arrival of the U.S. military to retake the island from Japan in 1944.
