Jolie visits cancer boy

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has taken time out of her busy schedule helping others to meet a six-year-old Australian boy suffering from a rare form of cancer.

Jolie was told of Dylan Hartung's plight by actress Nicole Kidman, who visited the little boy herself last month at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York - after Hartung revealed his two wishes were to meet Jolie and beat his disease.

The Tomb Raider star jumped at the chance and spent more than an hour chatting with Dylan on Tuesday.

Hartung's mother writes on his website: "He spent the whole time being really relaxed and chatting to her at a million miles per hour, like he had known her forever.

"She was so lovely, very down to earth, just like Nicole Kidman is. I think Angelina was very impressed by Dylan, particularly at how mature he is for his age. She was everything he imagined her to be like and he was so smitten with her.

"Dylan thanked Jolie for her visit with a ring - in return she gave him toys and an autograph for his Tomb Raider poster which reads, 'To Dylan, with all my love and respect'."