Joan Rivers still in serious condition




Mount Sinai Hospital said it had no updates Friday. On Thursday, hospital spokesman Sid Dinsay confirmed that Rivers had been taken there that morning.


The host of "Fashion Police" on E! network, Rivers also presides over an online talk show, "In Bed With Joan" and co-stars with her daughter on the WEtv reality show, "Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?" Her latest book, "Diary of a Mad Diva," was released this summer.

Shakira expecting second baby

Shakira is pregnant with baby No. 2.

The Colombian singer made the announcement on her Facebook and Twitter pages on Thursday. Her representative confirmed that the accounts were real.



No more details about the pregnancy were revealed.

Shakira and soccer player Gerard Pique, 27, welcomed their son, Milan Pique Mebarak, last year.

Pique, who is from Barcelona, is a soccer player for FC Barcelona. Grammy-winning Shakira, 37, released her self-titled 10th album in March.

Oscars to honor Belafonte, Maureen O'Hara

Harry Belafonte and Maureen O'Hara are among those who will be honored by the motion picture academy's board of governors.

The academy said Thursday that Belafonte will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the academy's sixth annual Governors Awards on Nov. 8 in Los Angeles.

Actor-singer Belafonte, 87, is being recognized for his dedication to shedding light on racism and inequality worldwide, the academy said.

Actress O'Hara, 94, whose films include "The Quiet Man," will join artist and animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere in receiving honorary Academy Award statuettes for lifetime achievement.

Miyazaki is the Oscar-winning creator of "Spirited Away." Carriere's four Oscar nominations include one for "That Obscure Object of Desire," and he won for a live action short, "Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)."

Maddow's producer headed for 'The View'





Compiled from reports by the Associated Press.