"You guys might think I'm crazy in all this but I think it's worthwhile to declare Jesus to these people," he wrote in a last note to his family on Nov. 16, shortly before he left the safety of the fishing boat to meet the tribesmen on the island. "God, I don't want to die," he wrote. Fishermen saw the tribe burying his body on the beach the following day, a fellow missionary wrote in an email to his mother, Lynda Adams-Chau of Vancouver, Washington.

The Christian evangelist who attempted to convert one of the world's last remaining isolated tribes wrote of his convictions in pursuing the mission even in the face of open hostility and attempts on his life, according to diary entries and notes.

Canadian actor Douglas Rain, who played some of Shakespeare's most intriguing characters onstage but perhaps is best known for supplying the creepily calm voice of the computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has died at 90. The Stratford Festival said Rain died on Sunday of natural causes at St Marys Memorial Hospital, just outside of Stratford, Ontario. He was one of the festival's founding company members and spent 32 seasons performing there, until 1998.

Lisa Fiekowski is a secret millionaire with an intriguing exercise routine: collecting trash. The New York Post wrote a profile of Fiekowski, a 60-something resident of Brooklyn's upscale Prospect Heights neighborhood. Fiekowski owns nearly $8 million in properties around New York City, but at least one of her investments is uninhabitable, thanks partially to her unusual hobby. The Post reported that she's packed one residency with an old microwave, umbrella, toys, carpet, amongst other trash.

Demi Lovato has reached 90 days of sobriety, according her mother, Dianna De La Garza. "She has 90 days," she confirmed in an interview on Maria Menounos‘ Sirius XM show Friday. "I couldn't be more thankful or more proud of her because addiction being a disease, it's work. It's very hard. It's not easy, and there are no shortcuts."

Long before veggie burgers and soy lattes were fashionable, Kin was sent on a mission by the United States government to uncover the benefits of the soybean for Americans. In 1917 Yamei Kin, a Chinese-born doctor then living in New York, visited her homeland to study a crop that was virtually unknown to Americans: the soybean.

Sinead O’Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and changed her name to the Arabic word for “martyr.” The “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer, 51, tweeted a picture of herself wearing a hijab. Mom-of-four O’Connor was ordained a priest by a Catholic sect during the 1990s. But the Irish singer has changed faiths and her name to Shuhada Davitt.

The challenges of defining Latinidad in Queer and Trans Latinx communities.

Showing once again why he’s the most down to earth movie star around, Hong Kong film legend Chow Yun-fat reportedly lives on just HK$800 ($102) a month, saving up his money so that one day he can leave it all to charity.

More than a decade before the #MeToo movement, Arnold Schwarzenegger was accused by multiple women of groping and humiliating them. The year was 2003 and the "Terminator" star was running for governor of California. He denied the allegations at the time and his campaign chalked it up to an escalating political attack against him.

Ellie Kemper has made a career out of playing sweet, unflaggingly optimistic characters like cheery receptionist Erin on The Office and the Emmy-nominated title role in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Now that Kimmy has wrapped up its final season, Kemper has turned her sights to writing, releasing the charming nonfiction collection, My Squirrel Days, which contains stories ranging from field trips during her St. Louis childhood to going to the Emmys while sporting an unfortunate bang fringe. Her new, literary departure may not be as unusual as it seems...

An experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on subatomic particles has died aged 96. Leon Lederman coined the phrase "God particle", a shorthand description of the then-theoretical Higgs boson, in the title of a 1993 book. His discoveries proved crucial in the identification of the subatomic particle that accounts for matter having mass in 2012.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has marked the seventh anniversary of the passing of Steve Jobs with a tweet, saying that he misses the company’s co-founder every day… Cook frequently speaks about Steve, and the influence the man had on both the company and Cook himself. In one interview this summer, he said that working for Steve was liberating.

Nobuo Uematsu, the composer behind a number of Final Fantasy games, Chrono Trigger, and a host of other major RPGs in the past 30 years, has announced that he is ceasing his current work due to health problems. Uematsu wrote about it on his blog, stating that he has been affected by a disease for a few years that has progressed to the point where he is unable to act at full capability. Rather than do subpar work, Uematsu is taking time to rest and reconsider whether future projects will be doable.

Geoffrey Owens says the Bill Cosby scandal was just one of the factors that led him to search for work outside of his industry, including bagging groceries at Trader Joe’s. Owens, 57, had been receiving royalties from The Cosby Show for years. But when Cosby, 81, was accused and later convicted of sexual assault, reruns were pulled from syndications, and the checks stopped coming.

Romain Grosjean has revealed he nearly gave up on his motorsport career altogether to become a chef after losing his Renault Formula 1 seat at the end of 2009. Grosjean made his F1 debut halfway through the 2009 campaign after being drafted into Renault as Nelson Piquet Jr’s replacement at the European Grand Prix in the wake of the Crashgate scandal. Despite qualifying within 0.3s of teammate Fernando Alonso on his first race weekend and showing glimpses of promise across his seven-race spell with the team, Grosjean lost his drive to Vitaly Petrov on the eve of the 2010 campaign.

It's no surprise that Steve Jobs was a jerk. There have been plenty of accounts over the years that have detailed his cruelty, rudeness, and miserliness to workers, business partners, and even family and friends. Still, the stories that have come out so far from "Small Fry," the new autobiography from his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, are shocking. Jobs comes across not just as someone who could be self-centered and mean but as someone who was a truly terrible human being.

One morning in June, with the smell of an approaching thunderstorm in the air, an elderly man, his hair carefully parted to one side and wearing a freshly ironed, collared shirt, rings the doorbell of a farmhouse in the Bohemian Forest, a low mountain range in the Czech Republic. He has a long journey behind him, across two international borders and hundreds of kilometers, the last few hundred meters of which lead down an alley lined with pear trees.

It's no surprise that Steve Jobs was a jerk. There have been plenty of accounts over the years that have detailed his cruelty, rudeness, and miserliness to workers, business partners, and even family and friends. Still, the stories that have come out so far from "Small Fry," the new autobiography from his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs are shocking. Jobs comes across not just as someone who could be self-centered and mean, but someone who was a truly terrible human being.

John McCain’s most courageous moment arguably did not come when he was near death as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. He was then frail and feverish, with two broken arms, a broken leg, a shattered knee and bayonet wounds, yet still resisting his captors even though the consequence was more beatings.