AP - Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential hopeful, has been hired by Fox News Channel as a political commentator.

AP - Kevin Spacey already has two Academy Awards and heads London's Old Vic theater. Now he can add a new title — Oxford University professor.

AP - The jury in the R. Kelly child pornography case has reached a verdict after less than a day of deliberations.

Reuters - Pop star Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone has written a memoir called "Life With My Sister Madonna," to be published next month by Simon and Schuster.

Fashion Wire Daily - Even if you can't make it to Bali next winter, picking up a few pieces from Nicole Miller's Resort 2009 collection, which she presented in New York on Wednesday, June 11, would be your next best option.

Reuters - News Corp's MySpace plans to launch a global redesign next week in an attempt to widen its demographic and boost user engagement on the site, the social networking site said on Friday.

AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston are sharing a play date. Brad Pitt's current romantic partner Jolie and ex-wife Aniston will go head-to-head at theaters Oct. 24, when both have a movie coming out.

AP - Jamie Foxx needs no help getting dressed for trial — the actor has apparently reached a settlement with a former stylist who sued him. Documents filed Wednesday in Los Angeles show that attorneys for stylist Stacy Young and Foxx have reached an undisclosed agreement. Young helped Foxx primp for the 2006 BET Awards and a press junket for the film "Miami Vice."

AP - Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin will headline the 2008 JVC Jazz Festival.

AP - Prosecutors wrapped up their child pornography case Thursday against R. Kelly the same way they began it a month ago: by playing for jurors the entire graphic sex tape at the center of the trial.

AP - LAS VEGAS (AP) — Siegfried and Roy might want to move the good furniture into storage for a while. The famed illusionists welcomed five new tiger cubs to their exotic habitat on the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday, a move Siegfried Fischbacher said would be therapeutic for Roy Horn, who was critically injured when he was mauled by a 380-pound white Bengal tiger onstage in 2003.