STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, an international opera star, has died, her husband Sverker Olow says....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman who led a public fight against breast cancer, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with the disease. She was 42....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died. She was 74....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Marsh & McLennan Cos. board member, David A. Olsen, died Saturday, the company said in a statement Wednesday. He was 71....

NEW YORK (AP) -- American painter Irving Kriesberg has died in New York City. He combined intense abstract colors with human and animal elements....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Sy Syms, founder and chairman of the SYMS Corp. discount clothing chain, died of heart failure Tuesday in New York, according to a statement issued by the company. He was 83....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ken Ober, who hosted the 1980s MTV game show "Remote Control" and helped produce the shows "Mind of Mencia" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine," has died. He was 52....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bobby Frankel possessed a gift for coaxing top performances out of ornery, high-strung thoroughbreds, a gruff Hall of Fame trainer who was hard in his dealings with humans but gentle with the animals in his barn....

LONDON (AP) -- Edward Woodward, the star of films including "Breaker Morant" and "The Wicker Man," died Monday. He was 79....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Paul Wendkos, who directed over 100 films and television shows during a 50-year career, including the 1959 surf movie "Gidget," has died. He was 84....

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle, who called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan ethnic wars of the 1990s but failed to openly condemn extreme Serb nationalism, died Sunday. He was 95....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- James R. Lilley, a longtime CIA operative and later the U.S. ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died. He was 81....

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King, a folksy cattle rancher who served more time as governor than anyone else and became an institution in state politics, died Friday. He was 85....

BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) -- The father of former NBA star Jayson Williams has died....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dr. William Ganz, a pioneering cardiologist and one of the inventors of a specialized catheter, has died. He was 90....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- John J. O'Connor III, the husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has died....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Carl Ballantine, a comedian, magician and actor who was in the 1960s TV sitcom "McHale's Navy," has died. He was 92....

FRANKFURT (AP) -- A goalkeeper expected to play for Germany at the World Cup died after being hit by a train in what police suspect is a suicide. He was 32....

SARATOGA, Wyo. (AP) -- Radio, television and cable industry leader Peter Francis Storer has died. He was 81....

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Al Cervi (SUR'-vee), a pro basketball star who coached the Syracuse Nationals to the 1955 NBA championship, has died in upstate New York at age 92....

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Gheorghe Dinica, a Romanian actor who delighted his country by portraying characters such as villainous politicians and defiant Gypsies in dozens of plays and movies, died Tuesday. He was 75....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93....