AP - Former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken is a father.

AP - "Star Trek Online" is finally going warp speed ahead.

E! Online - Taylor Swift just secured her high school diploma. Come this fall, expect her to be matriculating to the top of the charts.

E! Online - Good news, Claymates: The Claynation has welcomed its first heir.

E! Online - Who knew Brad Pitt would turn out to be such a Bastard? (Besides Jennifer Aniston, that is.)

AP - Sir Ben Kingsley has clothed himself in the roles of Jewish bookkeeper, Iranian colonel, brutal British gangster — and Gandhi.

AP - Soprano Anna Netrebko is extending her pregnancy leave and has withdrawn from performances of Puccini's "La Boheme" at the Metropolitan Opera in December and January.

AP - Dick Clark is still Mr. New Year's Eve — but he'll be sharing the title with Ryan Seacrest.

Fashion Wire Daily - "I'm curious how many men are actually packing out here on the runway," joked Lydia Hearst, the host of Freshpair.com's 6th Annual National Underwear Day runway show and party on Tuesday, Aug. 5, in New York.

Fashion Wire Daily - Scarlett and Penelope and Javier, Oh My! Living Large at the "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" Premiere By Jenny Peters August 5, 2008 à‚– Los Angeles, CA

Fashion Wire Daily - Few trade shows can boast a lingerie runway show as part of their program of events - except, of course, Lingerie Americas, the semi-annual gathering of the intimate apparel industry in the U.S.

Reuters - Joe Corre was born to rail against the establishment and now has the store to power the movement.

Reuters - The fashion world has finally cottoned on that sportswear is big business with designers competing to make their mark on the Olympics and win a place in the huge Chinese market.

Fashion Wire Daily - Betsey Johnson's Soho store in New York pulsed with pretty young things in pretty party frocks Thursday, July 31, for a very special birthday party. As guests tried to stave off sweat with glasses of chilled pink champagne, Betsey Johnson and her business partner and CEO Chantal Bacon celebrated the 30th anniversary of their business surrounded by their friends, family and fans.

Fashion Wire Daily - "It's so funny, they are piping in the smell of pot to the party," someone commented as the huge crowd at the "Pineapple Express" premiere was herded away from the Mann Village Theater in Westwood and into a transformed parking lot on Thursday night.

AP - China didn't just walk onto the world stage. It soared over it. At last playing its long-sought role as Olympic host, China opened the Summer Games in spectacular fashion Friday with an extravaganza of fireworks and pageantry dramatizing its ascendance as a global power.

AP - J.B. Holmes hung on to shoot a 2-under 68 and take a one-stroke lead into the clubhouse midway through the second round of the PGA Championship on Friday.

AP - Brett the Jet left the cheeseheads behind and got a few cheesecakes from the mayor in a big New York welcome.

AP - Security forces squeezed their grip on China a notch tighter Friday for the start of the Olympics, edging up restrictions in the capital and imposing much tougher ones in a restive Muslim area in the country's far west.

Reuters - Brett Favre described the whirlwind developments that took him to New York from the Green Bay Packers as "crazy" on Thursday, yet proclaimed himself excited about joining the Jets.

AFP - President George W. Bush's attendance at the US's opening Olympic match against hosts China on Sunday is expected to drive a shot of patriotism into the team of highly paid NBA superstars.