Diana's Heart Surgeon Ex-Beau: Princess Denied There Was Someone Else During Breakup .

LONDON — The heart surgeon who had a long relationship with Princess Diana said she denied there was anyone else when she broke up with him after seeing the Fayed family in France, a coroner's jury heard on Monday. Surgeon Hasnat Khan has refused to testify at the coroner's inquest into the 1997 deaths of Diana and boyfriend Dodi Fayed, but the jury heard a statement that he made to London's Metropolitan Police. read more -foxnews.com

Luxury homes burn in apparent eco-attack .

WOODINVILLE, Wash. - Three seven-figure dream homes went up in flames early Monday in a Seattle suburb, apparently set by eco-terrorists who left a sign mocking the builders' claims that the 4,000-plus-square-foot houses were environmentally friendly The sign — a sheet marked with spray paint — bore the initials ELF, for Earth Liberation Front, a loose collection of radical environmentalists that has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks since the 1990s. The sheriff's office estimated that Monday's pre-dawn fires did $7 million in damage to the "Street of Dreams," a row of unoccupied, furnished luxury model homes where tens of thousands of visitors last summer eyed the latest in high-end housing, interior design and landscaping. Three homes were destroyed and two had minor fire or smoke damage. read more - yahoo.com

Spacecraft photographs Mars avalanche .

PASADENA, Calif. - A robotic spacecraft circling Mars has snapped the first image of a series of active avalanches near the planet's north pole, scientists said Monday. The image, taken last month, reveals at least four avalanches of fine ice and dust breaking off from a steep cliff and settling on the slope below. The cascade kicked up massive debris clouds, with some measuring more than 590 feet across. read more - yahoo.com

2 Dead After Shooting at Florida Wendy's.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A gunman wearing a jacket and tie wordlessly and randomly opened fire inside a Wendy's during the lunchtime rush Monday, killing a firefighter who'd gone back to fetch his child's toy and wounding five other diners. He then turned the gun on himself.
"This was not a robbery. He didn't demand anything...," said Paul Miller, a Palm Beach County sheriff's spokesman. "Looks like this was just another random shooting like we've seen around the United States." read more - foxnews.com

Wikipedia Founder's Fling With Columnist Ends in Nasty Public Breakup.

As of midday Monday, $301.00 was the bid for a little piece of Internet history: the T-shirt that Jimmy Wales was wearing when he met Rachel Marsden for what he insists was their one and only night of passion. There's nothing special about the T-shirt, and a sweater which is separately bidding at $405.00, except for a couple of stubborn stains that even Tide extra-strength could not remove. But it's not every day that a guru of the World Wide Web uses his own site to dump his girlfriend and she responds by putting his old clothes on eBay. read more -foxnews.com.

Fan-ana Republic: The resurrection of 'X-Files' mania

After a long, long absence, FBI agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) are back in a new "X-Files" movie this summer. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny and "X-Files" creator Chris Carter were at Wondercon last week (along with "X-Files" feature film writer Frank Spotnitz) to promote the still-untitled new "X-Files" film scheduled to come out July 25 and it was the first time the trio had appeared together at a convention since "X-Files" first came on the air in 1993. The fans screamed throughout the whole 45 minutes read more -latimes.com

Nepal: 12 dead from U.N. copter crash .

KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- The death toll from a United Nations helicopter crash in Nepal has reached 12, the government said Tuesday. The United Nations Mission in Nepal helicopter was traveling from a camp for former Maoist rebels in east Nepal to the capital Kathmandu when it lost contact about 4 p.m. Monday (5:30 a.m. ET), the mission said. The chopper caught fire and crashed in a mountainous region near Bhawasa, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Kathmandu. The cause of the crash is not known, but eyewitnesses said that the helicopter started burning and crashed to the ground. read more -cnn.com

Britney Spears finally dumps pap pal Adnan .

Plus: Kirsten leaving Hollywood behind? Stern steamed at ex-sidekick.
Things continue to look up for Britney Spears. Her conservators have her estate under control, she’s sporting a glossy new weave and according to one paper, she’s given her paparazzo boyfriend the heave-ho after finding some incriminating text messages. The tale of the texts unfolded after Britney got an eyeful of Adnan Ghalib’s iPhone. “There were about a dozen (messages) from one girl, all sent on one day,” an insider told the Sun. “They were pretty saucy stuff with sexual references — certainly not the sort you’d send to just a friend.” read more -msnbc.com

Report: Iranian Court Orders 'Stingy' Husband to Buy Wife 124,000 Roses.

A "stingy" Iranian man has received a court order forcing him to buy his neglected wife 124,000 red roses, the Daily Telegraph reported Monday. After ten years of nuptial confinement, the wife — known only by her first name, Hengameh — decided to claim her mahr, or dowry, as a way of making a point reguarding her husbands cheap tendencies, the Telegraph reported. "Shortly after marriage I realized that Shahin was very cheap. He even refused to pay for my coffee if we went to a cafe or restaurant," she told Iranian newspaper Etemad. One long-stemmed rose in the Islamic Republic costs about 20,000 rials, or a little over $1.50. So the entire arrangement will cost about $265,000. read more -foxnews.com

Six killed, including children, in Memphis shooting .

(CNN) -- Six people were killed, including two children , and another three children wounded in a shooting Monday in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said. Memphis Fire Department spokeswoman Melanie Young said firefighters responded to a 911 call at a home at 6:11 p.m. Monday when the bodies and wounded children were found. The wounded children - a 7-year-old boy, a 10-month-old girl and a 4-year-old whose gender wasn't immediately known -- were transported to Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center. They were in the emergency room being treated for gunshot wounds, said hospital spokeswoman Jennilyn Utkov. read more - cnn.com

Jersey child abuse probe finds suspect sites.

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Debris excavated from the basement of a former children's home is being sent to laboratories for further examination, police said Monday. Forensic teams spent the weekend searching the building on Jersey, an island between England and France, after a fragment of a child's skull was found late in February. Cadaver dogs have found six "hits," locations where a body or body parts may have be buried, said police press officer Louise Nibbs. Jersey Deputy Police Chief Lenny Harper said Monday the weekend search did not turn up anything obviously related to the child abuse accusations. ...read more -cnn.com

Doctor accused of hastening death for patient's organs.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, California (CNN) -- A respected California transplant doctor faces charges he hastened a comatose man's death to retrieve his organs -- a far-reaching case that could impact the nation's organ donation industry. Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 34, is accused of ordering excessive doses of drugs to expedite the death of Ruben Navarro, a 25-year-old man who had suffered from a debilitating nerve disease since he was 9, according to the criminal complaint. On February 3, 2006, Dr. Roozrokh hurried from San Francisco to the Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center with a transplant team after receiving word Navarro would be a donor. read more -cnn.com

Police: Texas teen, boyfriend spent month planning fatal attack.

EMORY, Texas (AP) -- A high school couple forced to break up spent about a month plotting to kill the girl's parents before her mother and two younger brothers were fatally shot and stabbed in a weekend ambush, according to records released Monday. Charlie James Wilkinson, who had been dating Penny and Terry Caffey's 16-year-old daughter, told police his girlfriend wanted her parents dead because they forbade their relationship, according to Rains County Sheriff Department investigators. "Wilkinson stated that he and [the girl] were in love and the only way they could be together is to kill the parents," the arrest affidavit stated. read more - cnn.com

Men use bogus police badges to rob immigrants .

Investigators are searching for these two men in connection with 11 robberies in the past six months in which thieves have targeted immigrants. By Kate Augusto, Globe Correspondent Police are looking for two men who have been flashing fake badges and impersonating police officers to rob illegal immigrants. The most recent robbery was reported Sunday night in Chelsea, when two men dressed like plainclothes detectives knocked on the door of a second-floor apartment on Broadway at 8:30 p.m. With badges hanging around their necks and speaking into what looked like a police radio, the men forced all the residents into a room and stole cash and jewelry. read more - boston.com