AFP - US action film star Vin Diesel and his girlfriend, model Paloma Jimenez, are new parents of a baby girl, People magazine reports in its online edition.

AP - Jewel has been honored by the Recording Industry Association of America with a career milestone plaque commemorating sales of more than 18 million albums in the U.S.

AP - Celebrities he clothed and designers he inspired gathered for the funeral of Yves Saint Laurent, a sartorial revolutionary who changed the way generations of women dressed.

AP - Ed McMahon blames the possible foreclosure of his multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills house on a set of problems all too familiar to many Americans: a foundering economy, health problems and poor planning.

AP - A book publisher has sued Victoria Gotti for the return of an advance she was paid to write a memoir she never delivered.

Reuters - France said farewell to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent at a funeral on Thursday attended by supermodels, film stars and President Nicolas Sarkozy.

AP - PARIS (AP) — Green bunches of Yves Saint Laurent's beloved wheat dressed the yellow cloth covering his casket, which stood like a ray of light amid a sea of mourning luminaries clothed in funereal black, his favorite color.

Reuters - The recent fire damage to Universal Studios' video vault underscores the significance of film preservation and archiving, which already been receiving increased industrywide attention.