Mohamed Al Fayed

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Mohamed Al Fayed is not entitled to U.S. government records related to his son and Princess Diana. Last year, the Egyptian-born multimillionaire sought all documents concerning his son Dodi and Diana, who were killed in a 1997 car crash in Paris, as well as documents pertaining to himself. Al Fayed has said he believes there was a murder conspiracy by people who disapproved of Diana's relationship with his son. An investigation by a French magistrate blamed their driver.

Under an upside-down American flag, actor Woody Harrelson arrived in Santa Barbara on Wednesday to a hero's welcome, completing the final leg of his 1,500-mile bike trip down the Pacific Coast. As he rolled into the college town, students surrounded Harrelson's rainbow-painted "mother ship," an old Chicago transit bus fueled by hemp, reeking of patchouli and outfitted with bunk beds.

A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld a lower court ruling denying Mohamed Al Fayed access to U.S. intelligence records related to the 1997 deaths of his son, Dodi Fayed, and Princess Diana in a Paris car crash. The Egyptian-born tycoon, owner of Harrods department store in London, sued the CIA seeking documents he said included information from monitoring of Diana's telephone conversations.

A Paris court refused to reopen the investigation into the 1997 car crash that killed Britain's Princess Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their driver, judicial sources said. Lawyers for Fayed's father, Mohammed Fayed, said they would appeal to France's highest court, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Paris court had been asked to reconsider a lower court's decision to dismiss charges against news photographers who were following the car.

Under an upside-down American flag, actor Woody Harrelson arrived in Santa Barbara on Wednesday to a hero's welcome, completing the final leg of his 1,500-mile bike trip down the Pacific Coast. As he rolled into the college town, students surrounded Harrelson's rainbow-painted "mother ship," an old Chicago transit bus fueled by hemp, reeking of patchouli and outfitted with bunk beds.

A Paris court refused to reopen the investigation into the 1997 car crash that killed Britain's Princess Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their driver, judicial sources said. Lawyers for Fayed's father, Mohammed Fayed, said they would appeal to France's highest court, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Paris court had been asked to reconsider a lower court's decision to dismiss charges against news photographers who were following the car.

Prosecutors cleared the owner of Harrods department store of trying to blackmail Prime Minister John Major in a scandal that forced two of his ministers to resign last month. Major suggested that Mohamed al Fayed wanted a government report that criticized him withdrawn in exchange for suppressing news that he paid the ministers to ask questions in Parliament.

The archive of the British satirical magazine Punch has been sold to the British Library, its former owner said Friday. Mohamed al Fayed, owner of the Harrods department store, did not disclose the price he received for the archive, which contains more than 1,000 original cartoons, a collection of diaries, letters, oil paintings, statues and artifacts from the offices of the magazine. Punch, first published in 1841, folded in 1992 after steady falls in circulation.

The Egyptian owners of Harrods said today they will ask a European court to clear them of allegations in a British government report that they lied during a bitter takeover of the exclusive London department store. A statement from Harrods' parent company, House of Fraser, said Mohamed Al Fayed, Salah Fayed and Ali Fayed will take their case to the European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, to seek a new ruling on the case.

The desk at which the Duke of Windsor signed away his throne for the woman he loved will be auctioned off in September, along with more than 40,000 objects from the couple's home in Paris. For nine days, Sotheby's New York gallery will offer mementos of one of the great love stories of our time, the auction house said Monday.

A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld a lower court ruling denying Mohamed Al Fayed access to U.S. intelligence records related to the 1997 deaths of his son, Dodi Fayed, and Princess Diana in a Paris car crash. The Egyptian-born tycoon, owner of Harrods department store in London, sued the CIA seeking documents he said included information from monitoring of Diana's telephone conversations.

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Mohamed Al Fayed is not entitled to U.S. government records related to his son and Princess Diana. Last year, the Egyptian-born multimillionaire sought all documents concerning his son Dodi and Diana, who were killed in a 1997 car crash in Paris, as well as documents pertaining to himself. Al Fayed has said he believes there was a murder conspiracy by people who disapproved of Diana's relationship with his son. An investigation by a French magistrate blamed their driver.

Roland "Tiny" Rowland, a colorful tycoon who turned an unprofitable mining company in Rhodesia into a multibillion-dollar international conglomerate, has died at age 80. Rowland had been suffering from skin cancer and died at the London Clinic, the Observer newspaper reported Sunday. Rowland owned the newspaper from 1979 to 1992.