■UNITED STATES
OnStar halts stolen SUV
Police in California say General Motors’ OnStar communications system stopped a dangerous high-speed chase and helped them capture a carjacking suspect by disabling a stolen sport utility vehicle. OnStar officials say the incident early on Sunday in Visalia was the first time the system had been used to halt a chase. Police say it all began when a man used a sawed-off shotgun to take a Chevrolet Tahoe from two men in a parking lot. Police contacted OnStar, which found the Tahoe by using a global positioning system. Two officers spotted the SUV but the driver sped off. That’s when OnStar operators sent a signal that slowed the Tahoe to a halt. The surprised thief ran off but was quickly captured.
■UNITED STATES
‘Dr. No’ actor dies aged 91
Joseph Wiseman, the actor most widely known for playing the title character in Dr. No, the first feature film about James Bond, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 91. His daughter, Martha Graham Wiseman, confirmed the death, saying her father had recently been in declining health. Released in 1962, Dr. No starred Sean Connery and Ursula Andress and featured Wiseman as Dr Julius No, the sinister scientist who was Bond’s first big-screen adversary. Wiseman’s other film credits include Detective Story (1951); Viva Zapata! (1952); The Unforgiven (1960) and The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968). Wiseman was born in Montreal on May 15, 1918, and moved to the US with his family when he was a boy.
■UNITED STATES
Octuplets doctor expelled
The doctor who gave fertility treatments to octuplets mom Nadya Suleman has been expelled from a professional organization. Michael Kamrava was kicked out of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine last month, group spokesman Sean Tipton said on Monday. Tipton said Kamrava had violated the group’s standards. He declined to provide details but said Kamrava was not expelled because of his work with any single patient. Suleman told RadarOnline.com she believed Kamrava was a good doctor who always warned her about the risks of multiple births and that she felt bad about his expulsion.
■MEXICO
Garcia Marquez spied on
Police opened a file on Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982 as “pro-Cuban and pro-Soviet” and a “propaganda agent” of Cuba, according to files published by Mexican daily El Universal on Monday. The newspaper reported that the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude among many other works had been spied on by Mexico from the mid-1960s to at least the 1980s. Colombian-born Garcia Marquez settled in Mexico in the early 1960s.
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