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Pam Anderson’s latest marriage is annulled.

LOS ANGELES - Pamela Anderson has ended another brief marriage. The “Baywatch” star’s nuptials with Rick Salomon were officially annulled Monday, according to documents filed in Superior Court. The documents listed fraud as the reason for the annulment but did not include further details. Salomon and Anderson, 40, were married Oct. 6 in Las Vegas then separated Dec. 13. Messages left for Anderson’s attorney Larry Ginsberg were not immediately returned. The documents did not name a lawyer for Salomon, and he could not be reached. read more msnbc.com

Student was bashed with cutting tool - court .

COLLEGE student Lauren Huxley suffered brain damage and nearly died after being repeatedly beaten with a large cutting tool, a Sydney jury has been told. Prosecutor Chris Maxwell QC said Ms Huxley's memory loss meant she could not give an account of what happened, but the crown contended her attacker was Robert Black Farmer. Farmer, 39, of Westmead in Sydney's west, today pleaded not guilty to causing Ms Huxley grievous bodily harm with intent to murder, at Northmead in Sydney's west on November 9, 2005. He also pleaded not guilty to detaining Ms Huxley, now 21, without her consent and to maliciously damaging a dwelling house by fire, with intent to endanger her life. read more - news.com.au

Model 'loves older billionaire's brain' .

AUSTRALIAN model Kristy Hinze says she was instantly attracted to her 63-year-old boyfriend, Texan billionaire Jim Clark, by his intelligence. The 27-year-old granddaughter of the late Queensland politician Russ Hinze has been dating Mr Clark, the founder of Netscape, for two-and-a-half years. The pair were tight-lipped about their relationship until now, but Hinze has told The Australian Women's Weekly she was instantly attracted to the thrice-married entrepreneur. "I never thought I was going to date an older man when I first met him," Ms Hinze told the magazine, which is on sale tomorrow. "To me, it was different to hang out with someone with something to say that was so interesting and important and who was truly, incredibly intelligent. "He's handsome and has so much charisma - and he's so funny." read more - news.com.au.com

World's tallest man struggles to fit in .

PODOLYANTSI, Ukraine - Leonid Stadnik's phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved, to stoop as he moves around his house and to spend most of his time in his tiny home village because he cannot fit in a car or bus. But Stadnik, who according to the Guinness World Records is the world's tallest human, says his condition has also taught him that the world is filled with kindhearted strangers. Since his recognition by Ukrainian record keepers four years ago, and by Guinness last year, people from all over Ukraine and the world have shipped him outsized clothing, provided his home with running water and recently presented him with a giant bicycle. read more -yahoo.com

Report: ‘Potter’ author says she contemplated suicide Rowling: ‘Mid-20s life circumstances were poor and I really plummeted’ .

LONDON - Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said she contemplated suicide as she suffered from depression before her rise to success, according to an interview with a student journalist. The British writer said she had suicidal thoughts in her mid-20s, when she was a single mother and struggling to establish a literary career. "Mid-20s life circumstances were poor and I really plummeted," Rowling said, according to an interview posted online by student journalist Adeel Amini. read more -msnbc.com

When a baby is destined to die.

Jeanne Deibert knew as soon as she saw the ultrasound. It didn’t matter that the doctor told her that what looked on the screen like pockets in her son’s brain would likely disappear as he got closer to birth. That things were probably fine. That she shouldn’t worry too much about her baby. She was his mother. And she felt certain that something was wrong. As her pregnancy progressed throughout the winter of 2005, other tests raised more red flags until finally the phone rang one afternoon as she stood in the yard of her Seattle home. On the other end was a geneticist, confirming the results of her amniocentesis: the baby had Trisomy 18. read more -msnbc.com

Endeavour heads home after fond farewells.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Shuttle Endeavour pulled away from the international space station Monday and headed for home after a heartfelt farewell between the two crews. It culminated 12 days of shared work, the longest mission of its kind. The 10 space travelers performed a record-tying five spacewalks, put together a space station robot and provided a new Japanese compartment -- and resident -- for the orbiting complex. "In my mind, in my view, it's been an extraordinary mission," said LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission management team. "It's just been a textbook mission up and down the line in every way that I look at it." read more -cnn.com

Man bit by stowaway snake in luggage .

McLEAN, Va. - Maybe he heard a faint rattling around in his luggage, but he surely never assumed the sound came from a stowaway snake sealed in his bag. Alas, that's what happened to Andy Bacas, an Arlington man who was taken to the hospital Monday after being bitten by what authorities believe was a juvenile canebrake rattlesnake. Bacas, a rowing coach at Yorktown High School, told fire and rescue personnel that he reached into his luggage Monday morning after returning from a team trip to South Carolina when he felt a sharp pain. That's when he saw the nearly foot-long snake and quickly slammed the luggage shut with the snake inside, said Chief Ben Barksdale, spokesman for the Arlington County Fire Department. read more -msnbc.com

Green says retirement is final.

TEARFULLY ending his professional boxing career, world light heavyweight champion Danny Green said no amount of money could tempt him to reverse a decision to quit made after an early-morning Easter Sunday "epiphany".
And while Green said he felt fitter and sharper than at any time in his 16-year career, he also believed he was making the decision of a wise man to walk out of the sport at his peak. "I woke up at 1am Sunday morning with my stomach churning, and it was telling me to hang up my gloves basically,'' Green said. "You can imagine I have struggled with the decision as I believe I am at the top of my game and the peak of my career as a professional fighter. "I have never gone against my gut feelings and I am not about to start doing that now. read more -foxsports.com.au.com

Britney goes for laughs on ‘Met Your Mother’

NEW YORK - Britney the Trainwreck showed how she can still be Britney the Performer. Britney Spears made her much-hyped guest appearance Monday night’s “How I Met Your Mother,” submersing her tumultuous personal life and portraying a sweet-natured receptionist, Abby, with a crush on unlucky-in-love Ted (Josh Radnor). Problem is: Ted only has eyes for Abby’s boss Stella (Sarah Chalke), a dermatologist. Ted’s goal: to win a date by his 10th session with Stella. Nothing’s working. Finally, he figures: “The receptionist — that’s my way in.” So he brings Abby coffee in a bid to impress Stella, but it charms Abby even more. During one visit, Abby trails him and Stella into an office to deliver a book — a self-help tome called “The Power of Me” — that he left behind in the waiting room. read more -msnbc.com

Britney Spears’ shady acting technique .

Before Britney’s “How I Met Your Mother” character debuted on the small screen Monday night, the pop star rehearsed like any other cast member. Well, almost. The National Enquirer’s Mike Walker reports that Brit wouldn’t remove her trademark oversized shades until the cameras rolled. “Britney delivered her lines, but the show's actors — Josh Radnor, Neil Patrick Harris and guest star Sarah Chalke from 'Scrubs' — had a tough time reading her expressions since they couldn't see her eyes at all,” an insider revealed. “It's hard for an actor to make a connection when all he sees is his own reflection staring back at him in shiny dark glasses … but no one wanted to upset Britney by asking her to take them off.” read more -msnbc.com

Challenge to Spears conservatorship rejected.

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court on Monday dismissed an attorney’s challenge to the order that gives Britney Spears’ father control over much of her life. Attorney Jon Eardley, who claimed to represent the pop star, filed an appeal March 11 challenging a court decision that made James Spears a co-conservator of his daughter’s estate. J ustice Roger Boren of the California Court of Appeal wrote in a ruling that the court has no jurisdiction to grant an appeal. read more msnbc.com

Remy Ma’s lawyer: She fired shot accidentally .

NEW YORK - A lawyer for Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma conceded Monday that his client shot a friend she suspected of stealing $3,000 from her but argued that the shooting was an accident — a claim the prosecutor disputed. Defense lawyer Ivan Fisher said Remy Ma (real name: Remy Smith) got into Makeda Barnes Joseph’s car after a party at a Manhattan nightclub on July 14, 2007, and demanded that she dump her purse’s contents. He said Joseph refused and struggled with the 26-year-old rapper over the bag. Their hands hit the car’s rearview mirror during the tussle, and the gun went off, Fisher said. ...read more msnbc.com

Missing man sought after 4 killed in ship sinking .

ANCHORAGE (AP) — The Coast Guard scanned the icy Bering Sea on Monday for a fisherman who may have been dropped from a rescue basket after the vessel he was on sank, killing four people and leaving survivors bobbing across a mile of ocean. The 203-foot Alaska Ranger was on its way to mackerel grounds when it began taking on water Sunday in rough seas. A former captain of the ship recalled the vessel Monday as being "very unstable." Forty-two people on board were helped by rescue swimmers and hoisted to helicopters after the Seattle-based ship sank; additional help came from crew on a nearby fishing vessel. The captain and three crewmembers died; it wasn't immediately clear what caused the ship to sink. A preliminary investigation shows the four men did not make it to life rafts and died of hypothermia, said Alaska Wildlife Troopers Sgt. Greg Garcia. read more -usatoday.com

Police: Mother of dead Goa teen given protection.

PANAJI, India (AP) -- The mother of a British teenager who was allegedly raped and murdered on a beach in southern India has been provided with an armed escort, police said Monday. Scarlett Keeling's bruised and partially clothed body was found February 18 on Anjuna beach in Goa, a tiny state whose coastline is crowded with tourist resorts. A post-mortem examination last week showed that she tested positive for drugs like cocaine and morphine. Keeling's mother Fiona MacKeown has been provided armed security at an undisclosed location within the state since Monday evening,a senior local police officer Bosco George said. He gave no other details. read more -cnn.com

Officials: Man slain over purported witchcraft use.

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) -- Three suspects brutally killed a man whom they accused of using witchcraft to put an "evil-eye" spell on one of their relatives, officials on Mexico's Caribbean coast said Monday. In the brutal slaying Saturday near the glistening resort of Cancun, the three men allegedly stabbed 28-year-old Lucas Dominguez seven times, crushed his skull with a rock and tried to burn his body, said Luis Raymundo Canche, assistant prosecutor for the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo. Two of the men, Pedro Nunez Alvarez, 24, and Gustavo Perez Nunez, 19, were detained Sunday, and a third suspect remains at large. "We have detained two people who confessed," Canche said in a phone interview. read more -cnn .com

Pa. police seek scam artist posing as coach.

WARREN, Pa. (AP) — Police in three western Pennsylvania towns are looking for a man who pretends to be a basketball coach and scams McDonald's restaurants out of food and money using bad checks. Police say the man drives up in a school-type bus and enters the restaurants ordering about $50 of food for his "team." The man then pays with a $150 check that appears to be from a school district and takes his food and his change, in cash. The stores learned they were scammed when the checks bounced. Police say it happened March 14 at McDonald's in Warren and Grove City and the next day in Titusville. Police say Friday they have a suspect but haven't arrested anyone. read more - usatoday.com

Teen 'shot, stabbed and burnt over $50 deal'.

A TEENAGER was shot, stabbed and his body burnt after he allegedly failed to fulfil a $50 drug deal, a Victorian court has heard. The body of 18-year-old Bryan Conyers was found by a security guard in the garage of a vacant house in Windermere Boulevard at Pakenham, in Melbourne's south-east, on May 23, 2007. Conyers, from Doveton, had been shot and stabbed before fuel was poured over his body and set alight on the night of May 22 last year. Matthew Johnson, 34, formerly of Berwick, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates court for a pre-trial committal hearing today, charged with Mr Conyers' murder. Prosecutor Nicholas Papas told the court that on May 22 Johnson allegedly gave Mr Conyers $50 to buy marijuana for him. read more -news.com.au

Trapped' Kovco was a suicide risk - inquest .

PRIVATE Jake Kovco was a flamboyant personality who engaged in risk-taking and was a high suicide risk, the inquest into his death has been told. Pte Kovco died from a shot to the head with his own service pistol in the Australian military barracks in Baghdad in April 2006. A military board of inquiry found he accidentally fired his gun whilst skylarking, but an inquest in Sydney is examining other possibilities, including suicide. Suicide expert Robert Goldney told the jury in the Glebe Coroner's Court today that he believed Pte Kovco had been at high risk of killing himself. read more - news.com.au.com

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