John Templeton, an investor and mutual-fund pioneer who dedicated much of his fortune to promoting religion and reconciling it with science, has died.
Experts on Wednesday probed the unusual deaths of 14 birds in the southern Bahamas amid fears the deadly H5N1 bird-flu virus strain had reached the Americas. In Europe, meanwhile, Swiss officials confirmed the Alpine nation’s first case of the disease’s highly pathogenic strain that can kill humans.
No image available
/ 26 November 2004
British-born author Arthur Hailey whose books such as Airport, Hotel and Wheels inspired disaster movies of the 1970s has died
at his home in the Bahamas aged 84, his family said on Thursday. Hailey’s books were published in 40 countries and sold more than 170-million copies.
The pilot of the small plane that crashed in the Bahamas last year – killing 22-year-old US singer and actress Aaliyah, and seven others had traces of cocaine and alcohol in his body.