The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
London - The Princess of Wales wrote months before her death that she feared someone was planning to harm her in a staged car accident, a newspaper reported Monday. A forthcoming book by Diana's one-time butler, excerpted Monday in the Daily Mirror, quoted the princess as writing that "this particular phase in my life is the most dangerous." She reportedly wrote to Paul Burrell that someone was planning "an accident in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry." Diana died in an August 1997 car crash in Paris that also killed her companion, Dodi Fayed, and driver, Henri Paul. A French judge has ruled that Paul's use of drugs and alcohol, and the car's high speed, caused the accident. Brussels - Cod stocks have sunk to historic lows and are near commercial extinction in many European Union waters despite deep cuts in the fishing fleet and stringent catch quotas, scientific evidence released Monday showed. he Copenhagen-based international council said North Sea and Skagerrak cod stocks reached 52,000 tonnes this year, less than a third of their minimum recommended size. Virginia Beach, Va. - A judge granted sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad's surprise request Monday to represent himself, minutes before opening statements in the trial were to begin.
