Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the richest person in America for the 14th year in a row, followed by investor Warren Buffett, according to Forbes magazine's latest list of the wealthiest Americans.

Ambani brothers Mukesh and Anil have been jointly named among the world's 50 most influential people in business, thanks to their rivalry that has goaded them to steer their respective businesses to new heights.

Ingmar Bergman died today at his home on Faro. He was 89. Ingmar Bergman is Sweden's most famous film director and overall one of the world's most important filmmakers. His fame rests upon a large production of remarkable quality throughout a career of almost sixty years. Bergman has directed fifty or so films for cinema and television, and also written manuscript to another dozen.

Comedian Richard Jeni had a history of mental illness that may have contributed to his decision to take his own life in March 2007, indicates a coroner's report.

Legendary opera diva and gay icon Beverly Sills, 78, is reported to be near death from lung cancer.

Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world's most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87.

Sad news from Montreat, North Carolina today: Ruth Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, in coma, reportedly near death:

March 29, 2007 - Donald J. Trump, NBC and Paula M. Shugart, President, Miss Universe Organization, announced today that the 56th Annual Miss Universe® Competition will air live from Mexico City, Mexico. The glamorous live event, featuring some of the world's most beautiful women, will air from the National Auditorium (Auditorio Nacional), on NBC and Telemundo on Monday, May 28, 2007 from 9 - 11 p.m. ET.

Ancestry.com Is Featuring More Than 90 Million Names of America's Military Heroes and U.S. Military Records Helping People To Find Ancestry.

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, steel icon Lakshmi Mittal along with Osama bin Laden and Pope Benedict XVI are among a packed and varied field chosen by Time Magazine for this year's list of the world's 100 most influential people.

Can a salamander or starfish hold secrets that could one day help cure human diseases? University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute researchers aim to find out.

Elegant boutiques and offices staffed by polite and informed sales personnel are important to the selling experience for luxury goods and services firms, but easy-to-navigate websites that provide product information and the ability to purchase all of the inventory sold offline are becoming just as important.