Angelina Jolie, helping an orphans advocacy group establish its headquarters in the nation's capital, pushed Thursday for more U.S. aid for education in developing countries.
"This is a happy day because it is not often enough that these children are represented in this town," Jolie said to a room crowded with cameras and reporters. Jolie appeared with four others to open the Washington headquarters of Global Action for Children, a nonpartisan advocacy group formed in 2003. The group, supported by a collection of charities, religious groups and nongovernmental organizations, wants the Bush administration to commit an additional $2.
5 billion a year to education and to aiding orphans in developing countries. "The crisis has far outpaced the funding," said Jennifer Delaney, the group's executive director. "Our government has the power to choose which path these children are going to take," Jolie told reporters at the National Press Club.
"We know the consequences of our inaction." Jolie has adopted three orphan children, and said any help that people in the U.S.
can offer is better than nothing. "The best solution for anyone who is abandoned or displaced is to be home (in their
" Regis Philbin is back on "Live With Regis and Kelly" but still not 100 percent, he says, six weeks after his triple heart bypass surgery. Philbin, 75, returned to his syndicated daytime talk show Thursday. The audience cheered as he walked onto the set with co-host Kelly Ripa.
"Finally back after six weeks. ..
. Yes, it was six weeks - and one day," said Philbin, spry and energetic as ever. But in a press conference, Philbin said he continues to feel post-surgery pain.
"My chest hurts," he told reporters. "People keep telling me, `Hey, you look great.' I don't feel that great but I'm happy to be here.
" Why is he back at work? "Well, because it was time," he said. "It really was.
And sometimes you delude yourself into thinking - you know, you get sort of a wave of hypochondria saying, `Maybe I shouldn't go back, this hurts, that hurts.' Yeah, it hurts but it's not enough to keep me away from the show." David Letterman, host of CBS' "Late Show," was Philbin's first guest on Thursday's program.
Philbin was a guest host when Letterman underwent heart bypass surgery in 2000 and recovered from an eye infection in 2003. A court issued arrest warrants for Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, saying their kiss at a public function "transgressed all limits of vulgarity," media reports said. Judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants in the northwestern city of Jaipur after a local citizen filed a complaint charging that the public display of affection offended local sensibilities, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
Gupta earlier viewed television footage of the event, which he called "highly sexually erotic," saying the pair violated India's strict public obscenity laws. Gere and Shetty "transgressed all limits of vulgarity and have the tendency to corrupt the society," PTI quoted the judge as saying. Such cases against celebrities - often filed by publicity seekers - are common in conservative India.
They add to a backlog of legal cases that has nearly crippled the country's judicial system. Gere left India shortly after the kissing incident and it was not immediately clear how the warrant would affect him. His publicist, Alan Nierob, said there would be no comment from the actor.
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