Lohan pelted with flour

November 16, 2008 at 12:00a.m.

PARIS — U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan has been pelted with a flour bomb on arrival at a Paris nightclub wearing a fur stole.

Animal rights activists showered the 22-year-old actress with flour when she went to the VIP Room Theater in the early hours of Saturday with her friend, disc jockey Samantha Ronson.

The owner of the nightclub helped Lohan dust off her blue sequined dress and black stole before she posed on the red carpet. Ronson went on to spin tracks for a crowd that included reggae rapper Shaggy and “I Kissed a Girl” singer Katy Perry.

Arrest in office slayings

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — An engineer who police said fatally shot three former co-workers at a Silicon Valley high-tech company was arrested Saturday after a daylong manhunt.

Jing Hua Wu was arrested at an intersection in nearby Mountain View and booked into Santa Clara County Jail on three counts of murder, said Santa Clara Police Lt. Mike Sellers.

Wu was not armed when he was arrested, and officers did not find a gun in his vehicle, police said.

He had been missing since the shootings Friday afternoon at the offices of SiPort Inc., a four-year-old company that develops digital radio semiconductors.

Astronauts inspect ship

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour’s astronauts unfurled a 100-foot, laser-tipped pole and surveyed their ship for any launch damage Saturday while drawing ever closer to their destination, the international space station.

At least two pieces of debris were spotted Friday night in launch photos, Mission Control reported, and engineers were poring over the images to determine whether anything hit Endeavour.

The spacecraft and its crew of seven were on track to hook up this afternoon with the space station.

Prince Charles turns 60

LONDON — Singer Rod Stewart headlined a star-studded bash for Prince Charles’ birthday party Saturday in England.

The pop star — known for songs such as “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” and “Maggie May” — performed at a party given by Charles’ wife, Camilla, at their Highgrove estate home in southwest England.

It is the third celebration in a week for the prince, who turned 60 on Friday.

Another Episcopal break

NEW YORK — The theologically conservative Diocese of Fort Worth voted Saturday to split from the liberal-leaning Episcopal Church, the fourth traditional diocese to do so in a long-running debate over the Bible, gay relationships and other issues.

About 80 percent of clergy and parishioners in the Texas diocese supported the break in a series of votes at a diocesan convention.

The Steering Committee North Texas Episcopalians, an umbrella group for those who want to stay with the denomination, plans to reorganize the diocese. They promised that “the Episcopal Church’s work of Christian ministry and evangelization will go forward” in the region.

More fighting in Congo

GOMA, Congo — Renewed fighting broke out Saturday between rebels and soldiers in eastern Congo, as a U.N. special envoy flew in for emergency talks and said President Joseph Kabila was ready to meet his main rival.

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo spoke in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, before flying to the eastern city of Goma. Fighting erupted in August in the east, displacing 250,000 people and raising fears the violence could spread through the region.

Obasanjo met Kabila late Friday and said the Congolese leader “did not give anything that I would call conditions” for holding talks with rebel leader Laurent Nkunda. “But we are at the exploratory stage now,” Obasanjo said.

Associated Press