Celebrity news
Britney Spears' marriage to Kevin Federline officially ended Monday.
"They are divorced," the pop star's attorney, Laura Wasser, said after a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing. "Everything is finalized."
Court Commissioner Scott Gordon signed orders for dissolution of marriage, an alimony agreement and child custody.
The alimony agreement will not be made public unless there is an enforcement issue, Wasser said.
"Most of that tracks the prenup," the attorney said, without elaborating.
The child custody order was tentatively sealed, pending an Aug. 14 hearing.
Christina Aguilera, who wraps up her world tour this week, has canceled two shows in Australia because she is ill with the flu.
Doctors confirmed the 26-year-old singer is suffering from a viral upper respiratory tract infection with a high fever and abnormal coughing, said concert promoter The Frontier Touring Company in a statement Monday released through Aguilera's spokeswoman.
Aguilera was put on bed rest for several days, forcing her to miss two shows in Melbourne on Saturday and Monday.
Ball State University will name its new communication building after David Letterman, a 1970 graduate.
Letterman's mother, Dorothy Mengering, was at Monday's announcement by the board of trustees in the talk-show host's hometown of Indianapolis.
Mengering, who lives in the city's northern suburb of Carmel, and Letterman, host of CBS' "Late Show With David Letterman," are expected to attend the Sept. 7 dedication.
Jenna Elfman has welcomed her first child, a son named Story Elias.
The baby was born July 23 in Los Angeles. He weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces, Elfman's publicist, Jenni Weinman, said Monday.
"Story wants to give big props to his mom for all the hard work," Weinman said in a statement, which also said the infant was a fan of "classical music, a clean diaper ... and long naps."
Elfman and actor Bodhi Elfman were married in 1995.
The 35-year-old actress played free-spirited Dharma Finklestein Montgomery in the ABC comedy series "Dharma & Greg," which ran from 1997-2002.
She recently starred in the CBS comedy "Courting Alex."
Austrians threw a party for one of their most famous sons, Arnold Schwarzenegger, celebrating his 60th birthday Monday with strudels, schnitzels and a gift -- the original street number from the house where he was born in Vienna.
"A Day for Arnold," proclaimed officials in the southern village of Thal Bei Graz, the California governor's birthplace. A brass band played, a priest celebrated a special birthday Mass and 59 people joined Mayor Peter Urdl onstage in a ceremony to wish Schwarzenegger well.
Urdl said he sent a birthday present -- Thal 145, the enameled number of the house where Schwarzenegger was born July 30, 1947. "This belongs to him. No one here will ever be assigned that number again," he said.
Kelly Osbourne will make her West End debut in "Chicago."
Osbourne, 22, will join the cast at London's Cambridge Theater, playing the role of prison matron Mama Morton during a seven-week run starting Sept. 10, the theater said Monday.
Meanwhile, Ozzy Osbourne was doing well after undergoing a "minor outpatient procedure" late Saturday at Rose Medical Center in Denver, his representatives said. He was released early Sunday.
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are saying goodbye to "The Simple Life."
The series finale will air Sunday on E!, the channel announced Monday. The program, which debuted on Fox in 2003, threw the privileged duo into everyday situations.
This season, the reality show reunited Hilton, 26, and Richie, 25, as drama camp counselors after they feuded and filmed their parts separately for the previous season.