Autopsy will be conducted to determine the sudden cause of death.

An autopsy is now planned for actor John Travolta's teenage son, who died while the family was vacationing at their Bahamas home. Jett Travolta, 16, had apparently hit his head on the bathtub. He was last seen entering the bathroom on Thursday, and has a history of seizures.

A caretaker for the house found Jett unconscious in a bathroom late Friday morning. He was taken to a Freeport hospital by ambulance, where he was pronounced dead.

A police officer said that it appeared Jett had hit his head on the bathtub. Family attorney Michael Ossi said in a statement that Jett died suddenly on Friday.

Obie Wilchcombe, a member of parliament and the former Bahamas tourism minister, said that an autopsy is planned Monday and that "we expect a quick resolution."

Wilchcombe said that Travolta "spent a tremendous amount of time with Jettt. He always brought him along. There was a close affectionate relationship and lots of love. People in the old Bahama community today are in shock."

Travolta, 54, and wife Kelly Preston, 46, also have an 8-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu.

Russian Professor Predicts the US Will Collapse & Split Into Six Parts in 2010

While the Russian economy continues to tumble, Igor Panarin, a Russian professor, is being pushed out into the limelight of Putin's state media to make bold predictions of a United States collapse in 2010.

So what's the professor got to say? He believes that when times get tough, rich states like California and New York will withhold funds from the federal government, which would lead to collapse and civil war. The U.S. would thus dissolve into six distinct parts:

1. Atlantic America: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Vermont, New York, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, the District of Columbia, and Tennesee. He says they might even join the European Union.
2. The Central-North American Republic: Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. He says this area would be a part of Canada or under Canadian influence.

Cleveland congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is now calling for a United Nations investigation to attacks on Gaza by Israel. Kucinich also criticized Israel for what he deems a disproportionate response to Hamas rocket attacks, standing in stark contrast to other House Democrats that have offered nearly unanimous support for Israel.

Leading Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), have blamed Hamas for the most recent violence in the Middle East that has left more than 300 dead in Gaza. Meanwhile, just one individual in Israel has been killed by a Hamas rocket.

Kucinich likens Israel's attacks on Gaza to its 2006 war with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Kucinich said that in both cases civilian populations were attacked and "countless innocents" were injured or killed.

In a statement Kucinich said:

“All this was, and is, disproportionate, indiscriminate mass violence in violation of international law. Israel is not exempt from international law and must be held accountable.”

Non-native animals are destroying the habitat, and ravaging the continent's scarce water supply.

A study conducted by the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre in Australia's capital city of Canberra found that the country's one million feral camels are running wild in the desert, destroying precious water sources. Another study is recommending that livestock farmers switch from cows, sheep, and pigs to kangarooms because they expel less methane, a gas said to contribute to global warming.

In the report, Murray McGregor said, "Eat a camel today, I've done it. It's beautiful meat. It's a bit like beef. It's as lean as lean, it's an excellent health food."

Camels are not native to Australia, and were introduced to the continent as pack animals by European settlers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. However, as railways and roads spread across the continent, they were released into the wild. with no natural predators, these newcomes ate voraciously, destroying habitats and spreading disease.

Now, as water becomes even more scarce in Australia, they country is being forced to closely monitor their water supplies and look at any way to preserve even just a few extra drops of water.

According to U.S. prosecutors, Blackwater Worldwide security guards used grenade launchers and machine guns during an attack on unarmed Iraqi civilians. Today, prosecutors unsealed a 35-count indictment against five guards for the 2007 shootings.

The guards surrendered in Utah, where prosecutors are arguing the case should be tried. The Justice Department has charged all five men with manslaughter, attempted manslaughter, and using a machine gun in a crime of violence. The machine gun related charge carries a mandatory minimum 30 year prison sentence.

US attorney Jeffery Taylor said that the guards were authorized only to take defensive actions.

A sixth guard took a plea deal and admitted to killing at least one Iraqi civilian in the shooting.

On Thursday experts indicated that Russia is now headed towards a major economic crisis, following news that the price of oil had fallen below $50 a barrel. The collapse of the value of oil is said to have several catastraphoic consequences for Russia, including a severe drop in living standards next year and a possible devaluation of the rouble.

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin insisted that the country's economy was still robust. Speaking at a meeting of the pro-Kremlin United Russia Party, Putin told delegates in Moscow that Russia would survive the current global financial crisis, which he blamed on the United States.

The Kremlin, however, is aware that any loss of confidence in the Russian economy would also lead to a loss in confidence in Putin and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.

Putin said that his administration would do everything possible to prevent a recurrence of Russia's last oil-related financial crash in 1998, however the continually dropping price of oil leaves him few available options. Experts now suggest that Russia's economy is facing profound difficulities, despite two massive stabilization funds accumulated during the booming oil years.

It's been little more than a month since Madonna and Guy Ritchie revealed publicly that they would be getting divorced, but a judge granted the couple the divorce Friday, officially ending their eight year marriage.

District Judge Caroline Reid pronounced the degree nisi in the uncontested divorce at the family division of the High Court in London. The case was listed as Ciccone M L v Ritchie G S, and was among 17 cases read out by a court clerk.

The judge then asked if anyone wished to show just cause against the decrees or raise the question of costs, and then said "I therefore pronounce the decrees." Neither Madonna nor Ritchie attended the hearing, which they are not required to do by law. The hearing lasted under a minute, and has to be one of the quickest high-profile divorces on record.

Madonna, 50, and Ritchie, 40, married at a Scottish castle in December 2000 in a lavish ceremony, and announced mid-October that they were divorcing. Together they have an eight year old son, Rocco, and a three year old adpoted son, David Banda. Madonna also has a 12 year old daughter, Lourdes, by her former trainer Carlos Leon.

Now that the split is official, will Madonna start stepping out more often with rumored boy toy Alex Rodriguez?

Al Qaida has released a video criticizing President-elect Barack Obama which is aimed at demeaning him in the eyes of his supporters. Al Qaida's #2 man, Ayman al-Zawahri featured in the video and branded Obama a "house negro", a racial term for a black American who does the bidding of whites. Al-Zawahri's speech marked al Qaida's first reaction to Obama's election victory.

Obama has been welcomed by many in the Middle East who hope that he will end what they consider American aggression against Muslims and Arabs under George W. Bush. But al-Zawahri dug into American racial history to make a case to the region that although Obama is black, he will not be anymore sympathetic than white leaders to what he referred as "the oppressed" of the world.

Al-Zawahri stated that Obama was the "direct opposite of honorable black Americans" such as Malcolm-X, who is known my some in the Arab world and seen as a symbol of anti-imperialism. AHe also referred to Obama,as well as secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, as "house negroes".

The video also featured footage of old Malcolm X speeches in which he explained the term, stating that black slaves working in their white masters' houses were more servile than those working in the fields. He used the term to criticize black leaders that he accused of as not standing up to whites and discrimination.

16-year-old high school student Eri Yoshida may be the first woman to play professional baseball in Japan, having been drafted by the Kobe 9 Cruise, a professional team in a new independent Japanese league that will begin its first season in April. Yoshida, who is 5 feet tall and weights just 114 pounds, spoke with the press on Monday.

"I always dreamed of becoming a professional. I have only just been picked by the team and haven't achieved anything yet," she told the press."

Yoshida, a pitcher, throws a side-arm knuckleball and said that she wants to follow in the footsteps of Boston Red Sox's pitcher Tim Wakefield, who has built a career on the knuckleball. She took part in a tryout earlier this month, and passed. The right-handed pitcher held male batters hitless for one inning during the tryout, which helped her become one of the 33 players chosen in the draft.