London -- The copyright on the iconic character Popeye the Sailor is set to expire in Europe this week, 70 years after the death of its U.S. creator, Elzie Segar.

The Times of London said that, as of Thursday, the character will fall into the public domain under European Union law, meaning anyone in Europe can use it without paying royalties or seeking permission. Although Europe honors a copyright for 70 years after an artist's death, U.S. law protects one for 95 years after the initial copyright, so the Popeye character is to be protected in America until 2024.

Popeye has appeared in comic books, cartoons, games and movies, and on merchandise since he was first introduced in 1929 and generates about $2.2 billion in annual sales, The Times said.

Washington -- "Deliverance," "The Invisible Man," "Sergeant York" and "The Terminator" have been added to the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, the Librarian of Congress each year names 25 movies to the national registry that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant, to be preserved for all time.

In addition to the aforementioned films, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington Tuesday also named to the registry "A Face in the Crowd," "The Asphalt Jungle," "Disneyland Dream," "Flower Drum Song," "Foolish Wives," "Free Radicals," "Hallelujah," "In Cold Blood," "Johnny Guitar," "The Killers," "The March," "No Lies," "On the Bowery," "One Week," "The Pawnbroker," "The Perils of Pauline," "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad," "So's Your Old Man," "George Stevens WW2 Footage," "Water and Power" and "White Fawn's Devotion."

Brookville, New York, December 30: Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will reportedly announce their impending divorce on the day, which people across the world await to express their love. According to the report in a city tabloid, the couple will announce their divorce - live and on stage, right in front of the audience at Anthony's concert, to be held on Feb. 14 at the Madison Square Garden.

Los Angeles, California, December 30: Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning Jazz trumpeter, who played on some of the most distinguished records of the 1960s and '70s, died at the Sherman Oaks Hospital, after he suffered a heart attack, on Monday. He was 70.

London -- British teen actress Emma Watson says she has no "use for" the millions of dollars she has earned for co-starring in the "Harry Potter" movies.

"Why would someone my age need this much money? Let's face it, I don't really have any use for it," the 18-year-old actress, who plays Hermione Granger in the blockbusters, told the Daily Mail.

Watson also said that, coming from a family of attorneys and academics, she is unsure if acting is something she wants to do for the rest of her life, the British newspaper reported Monday.

"I was 9 years old when I was given the part without even going to acting school. Just because this has happened to me doesn't necessarily mean it's the right thing," she said. "I didn't know I wanted to be an actress, they just found me out of nowhere. So it's taken me a little while to work out that this was what I wanted to do -- well, for now."

Palmer, Alaska -- Bristol Palin's great aunt has confirmed the 18-year-old daughter of former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah
Palin has given birth to a son.

People magazine said Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston was born Sunday in Palmer, Alaska.

Baby Tripp is the first child for Bristol Palin and her apprentice electrician boyfriend, Levi Johnston. The couple have been together for three years and reportedly plan to marry next year.

"We think it's wonderful," Colleen Jones, the sister of Bristol's grandmother Sally Heath, told People when confirming Tripp's birth. "The baby is fine and Bristol is doing well. Everyone is excited."

Sarah Palin is the governor of Alaska and the former running mate of defeated Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Beverly Hills, Calif. -- Two hundred eighty-one feature films are eligible for the 2008 Academy Award for best picture, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday.

To qualify for 81st Academy Awards consideration, feature films must open in a commercial motion-picture theater in Los Angeles County by midnight Wednesday, and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days.

Under Academy rules, a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes and must have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format.

The 81st Academy Awards nominations are to be announced Jan. 22 at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Five out of the 281 films are to be nominated for the best picture Oscar.

New York -- British actress Kate Winslet says she was deeply affected by the experience of portraying a former SS guard in the post-World War II-set movie "The Reader."

"The actor's job is to understand the character that they are playing and to ultimately love them in order to be able to accept who they are for all their marks and scars and all their crimes even, certainly, in this case, with Hanna," Winslet told UPI in New York recently.

"And I did understand her. Yes, absolutely. I knew that it wasn't my responsibility to make an audience sympathize with her. That was not part of this process for me. I could hope that they might understand her and I could also hope that if they did find themselves feeling any empathy toward this woman at all that that would morally make this audience member feel extremely uncomfortable. That is interesting to me, you know, to feel sympathy for an SS guard? No one wants to allow themselves to feel that, even myself."

Los Angeles -- Chyler Leigh's publicist says the U.S. actress is pregnant with her third child.

The "Grey's Anatomy" cast member is married to actor/musician Nathan West.

"She is a little over four months pregnant," her representative told Usmagazine.com Monday. "'Grey's' won't be writing her pregnancy into their storyline."

Leigh and West acted together on TV's "7th Heaven" and wed in real life in 2002. They are already the parents of 5-year-old Noah Wilde and 2-year-old Taelyn.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International.

New York, United States, December 29: The word was out -- New England Patriots hunk, Tom Brady proposed to Victoria's Secret model Gisele Bundchen, in the most fanciful way and she said YES! But, the families of the two rebuffed the news and responded otherwise.