“Death at 30,000 Feet: American Airlines Pilot Dies While Flying Plane”, “Toyota Finally Gets Serious About Self-Driving Cars”, “Iran Threatens Book Fair Boycott Over Rushdie”, “Psychotherapy ordered for Pistorius”

sputniknews.com. “Death at 30,000 Feet: American Airlines Pilot Dies While Flying Plane" - An American Airlines captain died mid-air while piloting a redeye flight from Phoenix to Boston on Monday. Flight 550 took an unexpected turn when the pilot, whose name and cause of death have not been released, died at the aircraft's controls. The flight's first officer took control of the airbus, and sent an emergency message to ground control before the flight was safely rerouted to Syracuse.

wired.com. “Toyota Finally Gets Serious About Self-Driving Cars"- TOYOTA HAS JOINED the race to build a self-driving car. The Japanese automaker announced it's dropping $50 million in the next five years to establish research centers with both Stanford and MIT, to work on artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology.

rferl.org. “Iran Threatens Book Fair Boycott Over Rushdie" - Iran has threatened to boycott next week's Frankfurt Book Fair because it has invited author Salman Rushdie to be a guest speaker. Rushdie, a British citizen who lives in the United States, had a fatwa issued against him by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 because he found Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, to be "blasphemous against Islam."

bbc.com. “Psychotherapy ordered for Pistorius"- Convicted South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been ordered to undergo psychotherapy by a judge-led panel which upheld a decision taken in August to block his release from prison.