Oprah Winfrey opens S. African school
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey kept a 6-year-old promise Tuesday and opened a school for impoverished South African girls south of Johannesburg.
In 2000, Winfrey pledged $10 million for the facility for 150 girls to former President Nelson Mandela, but has since spent $40 million on the school in Henry-on-Klip, southwest of the capital, South Africa's Independent Online reported. The school will eventually have 450 students, the BBC said.
Mandela attended the opening, along with singers Tina Turner and Mariah Carey, as well as actors Sidney Poitier, Chris Tucker and director Spike Lee.
The school sits on 50 acres, and has 28 buildings that house hi-tech classrooms, computers and science laboratories, the BBC said.
Winfrey reportedly personally interviewed many of the 3,500 applicants from families whose incomes are less than $700 per month, the report said.
The school will open for classes on Friday.
Kate Moss was not married in Thailand
PHUKET, Thailand, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Kate Moss's publicist has shot down reports that Moss and her boyfriend Pete Doherty were married on the island of Phuket in Thailand.
"Contrary to various entirely false media reports today, there has not been any kind of marriage ceremony in Thailand. She is on holiday," said Moss's spokesman, Stuart Higgins.
Various British news agencies had reported that the couple had been married in a candlelit Buddhist ceremony on New Year's Day in the Thai resort of Phuket, People Magazine reported.
A source told people that the couple sent out text messages wishing their friends a happy New Year, but did not mention a wedding.
Moss has a 4-year-old daughter, named Lila Grace, with ex-boyfriend Jefferson Hack.
Federline bests Cena in 'Raw' match
MIAMI, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Britney Spears' estranged husband Kevin Federline defeated John Cena in a WWE "Monday Night Raw" wrestling match in Miami.
In a no disqualification match, Federline managed to cover Cena for the three count after Federline's trainer, Johnny Nitro, and fellow wrestler Umaga intervened on his behalf, Wrestling-News.com reported Tuesday.
The match marked Federline's wresting debut.
Spears' collapse from fatigue, not booze
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Britney Spears' manager said the 25-year-old singer collapsed at a Las Vegas nightclub New Year's party because she was tired, but not drunk.
About an hour after she helped do the midnight countdown in the Pure nightclub inside Caesars Palace, Spears was talking to a male dancer when she suddenly slumped to the floor, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Witnesses said she was wrapped in a blanket and all but carried out of the club, the New York Daily News reported. However, other witnesses told People magazine "She was absolutely not carried out of the club."
Her manager, Larry Rudolph, downplayed the incident Monday, saying she had been drinking champagne, but not that much.
"She had been traveling all day. She got real tired. It was a late night for her," Rudolph said.
Since filing for divorce from Kevin Federline in November, Spears has made headlines for partying heavily several times, including being pulled from the stage of a Hollywood burlesque club.
