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THE HAGUE (AFP) – Oscar winner Angelina Jolie attended a war crimes trial in The Hague on Tuesday, hailing the bravery of youngsters who testified against Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga. "Children deserve special protection. Using children in conflict is a heinous crime and destroys the very fabric of a society," said Jolie, who is a goodwill ambassador for the UN's refugee agency. "I imagined how difficult it must be for all the brave young children who have come to testify against him," she said in a statement. Lubanga, 48, has pleaded not guilty to using children under the age...

The Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt break up rumours have hit a snag – the Changeling star is reportedly pregnant with baby number seven! It's claimed the couple will be adding to their brood before the year is out – and that the happy news couldn't have come soon enough for their rocky relationship. According to US magazine Star, a 'family insider' reveals: "Yes, Angie is pregnant."

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is said to be 'creeped out' by octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman after she received several admiring letters from her. Reports in the U.S. cited a source close to Jolie who said Suleman had sent her several letters praising her work on behalf of children's issues and gushing about how talented she was. Sources close to the Tomb Raider star said the 33-year-old Suleman had written to Jolie praising her support of children. She is said to be irritated by Suleman - and particularly by rumours claiming the single mother had facial surgery to make her look...

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is said to be 'creeped out' by octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman after she received several admiring letters from her. Sources close to the Tomb Raider star said the 33-year-old Suleman had written to Jolie praising her support of children. She is said to be irritated by Suleman - and particularly by rumours claiming the single mother had facial surgery to make her look more like her.

Getting Angelina Jolie to sign onto a film often makes it a guaranteed winner, but can she do the same for presidential politics? The lush-lipped actress, who, even during this election year, receives about as much press as John McCain and Barack Obama, is currently being courted by both candidates. But the politically minded actress has yet to endorse either. In a statement given to the entertainment trade magazine Variety, the new mom says, “I have not decided on a candidate.” Jolie says she is looking at both Obama’s and McCain’s international policies. “I am waiting to see the commitments...

One Hollywood star being hotly pursued – not only by movie producers, but also by Presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama – is Angelina Jolie. Only, the new mom and United Nations goodwill ambassador has a message for both parties: Not so fast. "I have not decided on a candidate," Jolie says in a statement provided by political adviser Trevor Neilson to Variety managing editor Ted Johnson, for the trade publication's Wilshire & Washington column.

An unnamed charity could be £5m better off today after the birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's twins. The bidding war has already begun for the first photos of Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline who were born on Saturday night at a French hospital. French papers have reported that an American magazine has already offered $10m (£5m) for the exclusive images of the new babies - with all the money going to a worthy cause.

Angelina Jolie has a gun - and she's not afraid to use it. The pregnant mother of four told the U.K.'s Daily Mail that she owns guns similar to the ones she used in "Tomb Raider." Jolie and partner Brad Pitt are not against having weapons in their house for security reasons, she says. "If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them," she said. Jolie, 32, has starred as a heat-packing vixen in several action movies - two "Tomb Raider" films, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and the upcoming futuristic thriller, "Wanted."...

'I've got my Tomb Raider guns - and I'm not afraid to use them,' says Angelina    Angelina Jolie has revealed she own real versions of the guns she toted in the movie Tomb Raider - and she and partner Brad Pitt wouldn't be afraid to use them. The actress, who is rumoured to have given birth to twin girls Isla and Amelie, says she and Pitt keep a firearm in their house to protect themselves and their expanding brood...    By Martyn Palmer Last updated at 9:48 PM on 31st May 2008A solid gold pendant nestles in the...

It's official! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got hitched earlier today, Saturday, March 29, in New Orleans. Jolie, who is pregnant with twins, has been dating Pitt since 2005. The couple share four children together: Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 1. This is Angelina's third marriage and Brad's second. Story developing!

Angelina Jolie is in Iraq to witness firsthand the humanitarian crisis there, the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR has announced. The actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, 32, flew from New York to Syria on Monday. In Damascus, she visited a UNHCR registration center and spend hours talking to Iraqi refugees in their homes. Tuesday's journey took her to Iraq to meet with 1,200 refugees camped out in a makeshift outpost at the border, because they are unable to leave the country. She also witnessed dozens of Iraqis crossing into Syria. "I have come to Syria and Iraq to help draw...

Our report yesterday about Angelina Jolie banning press from interviews and requiring interviewers to sign contracts touched off a firestorm. Mostly it was from colleagues who were relieved that we’d finally lifted the veil on all this craziness. And it wasn’t just about FOX News getting banned from the red carpet. That was bad, but it wasn’t the central issue. Jolie treats all the press with hostility unless she can control the outcome of an interaction. Insisting interviewers sign contracts was an affront, considering that her movie is about the murder of a reporter who tried bravely to do his...

Here's a Pop Culture update and we've got the story of Ben Carpenter's harrowing ride on the grill of an 18-wheeler. Some Ronnie Dove video and the heart-warming tale of the puppy from Baghdad. Plus John McCain's "taco" meal, Jolie's hypocrisy, gossip from Hollyweird and some surprising pics of young celebrities.

Angelina Jolie's true colors came out Wednesday as she promoted a film about freedom of the press and then tried to censor all her interviews. Jolie is touting press freedom these days, playing the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in a new movie called "A Mighty Heart." But Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to her own freedom of the press. Her lawyer required all journalists to sign a contract before talking to her, and Jolie instructed publicists at first to ban FOX News from the red carpet of her premiere.

How do you spell hypocrite? Apparently it's J-O-L-I-E as the puff-lipped actress proves by banning Fox News from being permitted to interview her to promote her new role as the wife of martyred reporter Daniel Pearl in the upcoming movie "A Mighty Heart." As Jolie touts press freedom, her newest pet cause, she inexplicably put several restrictions on that very freedom of the press -- and not just against Fox News. Fox News' Roger Friedman reports Jolie's hypocrisy.'Mighty' Hypocrite Angelina Jolie Bans FOX and Others From Premiere But Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to...

Angelina Jolie's "Understanding" @ pro-HAMAS Arab Children's Conference Hate-Fest in Jordan, 2004 I went to the screening of "A Mighty Heart"--activists Brad Pitt's and Angelina Jolie's movie on the Al-Qaeda murder of Daniel Pearl--expecting a movie with an agenda. And that is exactly what I got. That, plus a Lifetime Channel weepy-damsel-in-distress movie of the week. Muslims are the heroes--NOT the perpetrators--in this "Can't we all just get along?" kumbaya film ostensibly about terrorism. As one would expect from the Jolie-Pitts, "A Mighty Heart" is mostly NOT about the Al-Qaeda murder of Daniel Pearl, killed in cold blood specifically because...

Angelina Jolie's true colors came out yesterday as she promoted a film about freedom of the press and then tried to censor all her interviews. Jolie is touting freedom of the press these days, playing the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in a new movie called "A Mighty Heart." But Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to her own freedom of the press. Her lawyer required all journalists to sign a contract before talking to her and Jolie instructed publicists at first to ban FOX News from the red carpet of...

THE mother of the latest child adopted by Angelina Jolie is a money-hungry heroin addict who NEVER signed the papers to give up her son. Now the thieving, drug-addled woman — who abandoned her baby two days after giving birth — is likely to hound the Hollywood star and lover Brad Pitt for cash. Angelina gallery And unmarried Vietnamese pauper Pham Thu Dung, 29, may even demand they give the boy BACK. Angelina, 31 — who has two other adopted chidren and one of her own — picked up the three-year-old boy from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh city...

BAHAI, Chad -- Here, at this refugee camp on the border of Sudan, nothing separates us from Darfur but a small stretch of desert and a line on a map. All the same, it's a line I can't cross. As a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, I have traveled into Darfur before, and I had hoped to return. But the UNHCR has told me that this camp, Oure Cassoni, is as close as I can get.

Before she set a toe on the red carpet at the Golden Globes last week, Angelina Jolie’s carefully molded image as humanitarian and mom was already showing some cracks. The Internet had been flooded with reports, picked up from European interviews, that she had called her biological daughter “a blob” with less personality than her two adopted kids, and had criticized Madonna’s adoption of a baby boy from Malawi. Women’s Wear Daily reported she was being difficult about designs from St. John, the staid company whose ads she appears in and whose conservatively elegant gown she wore to the Globes....