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Catherine Zeta-Jones and husband Michael Douglas visited a children's hospital Friday in Cardiff, Wales, that they opened four years ago.
"It really is an honor for me to come back when it's running," she said after a 90-minute tour of the Children's Hospital for Wales. Zeta-Jones, who was born in the Welsh city of Swansea, became a patron of the Noah's Ark Appeal for a Welsh children's hospital in 2000.
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted undisclosed damages Thursday in London's High Court to settle a privacy claim against a British tabloid that had reported they were planning to split.
The couple sued the News of the World after it reported in January that they had agreed to separate. The pair argued the newspaper had made false and intrusive allegations.
"When the News of the World failed to publicly retract the allegations and apologize for them — thereby leaving their readers in the dark as to the true position — the couple felt they had no alternative than to sue," the couple's attorney, Keith Schilling, said in a statement.
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George Clooney will be recognized Aug. 29 at the Emmy Awards for his humanitarian efforts. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will present the 49-year-old actor with its Bob Hope Humanitarian Award for the "Hope for Haiti" TV special and his efforts to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina and raise awareness about genocide in Darfur.
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Pennsylvania's labor department is defending its decision to issue work permits to Kate Gosselin's sextuplets for the reality show "Kate Plus 8." The department says the children are not being "unlawfully exploited" by the filming at their home in Wernersville, Pa. State Rep. Thomas Murt had called the permits into question, saying the law lets children under 7 work in movies but not on TV.
— The Associated Press
