The search for missing millionaire Steve Fossett in Nevada desert was cut back on Monday. The Civil Air Patrol, which had 20 planes and 60 searchers, suspended further flights and left two planes and a small team on standby at the airport here."We don't like to do that. It's against our nature to walk away from a search," Maj. Cynthia Ryan of the Nevada CAP said. "But at some point you have diminishing returns."During the search 28 planes made 245 flights searching for Fossett, 63, who disappeared while flying his plane. Fossett's family reported him missingThe National [more]

A Brussels court has ruled that Michael Jackson's 1995 hit "You are not alone" is largely similar to a song written by Belgian twins two years before the hit. All the authorial rights of the Jackson number one hit, written by Robert Kelly, are therefore switched to the brothers according. The twins have fought for 12 years to gain recognition for their work."You are not alone" was released in August 1995, the second single off the multi-platinum Jackson album 'HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I'. It became the first-ever single to debut at number one on the US Billboard [more]

For the past month, Shakira has been taking a class at the University of California, Los Angeles, called "Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations from Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843." Shakira's manager Fifi Kurzman said "She went when she finished her tour, for the summer." She decided to take some time off to focus on social causes.Her classes began Aug. 6 and ended Thursday, though according to Robert Cleve(course lecturer) Shakira didn't attended the last few classes.She told me she was visiting from Colombia and that she was just doing this for her own enlightenment [more]