When supermodel Linda Evangelista told French billionaire François-Henri Pinault in 2006 she was pregnant with his child, he asked her to get an abortion, her attorney charged on the first day of a child-support trial in Manhattan.

Angelina Jolie, often photographed with her two children in her arms, says she wants to adopt again.

President George Bush has named John Negroponte, the United States’ top diplomat at the United Nations, as the US ambassador to Iraq.