Uh oh! Will.I.am, he of crap.py quartet the Black Eyed Peas, got a big head in light of the success of his "Yes We Can" video. Prepare to be positive video-ed to death.

On Thursday in New York City, Will, his band mate apl.de.ap, musician Angelique Kidjo, actress Kristin Davis and model Elle Macpherson all helped launch a "new" campaign to halve global poverty by 2015. Neat, if not really new.

In fact, this campaign is an initiative to help revitalize a plan originally put into motion eight years ago by the United Nations. Many of the countries the UN had hoped would be well on their way to destroying poverty by now are nowhere near achieving their goals. Clearly, this is a job for apl.de.ap.

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When Angelina Jolie headed to Nice, France, to unload her two kids, it wasn't because the doctors there were any better than the U.S. It's because the privacy laws there forbid photographers from taking publishing her picture, or that of her newborns, without her permission. Knowing those photos would fetch a hefty sum — $14 million, it turns out — she set up camp among the French until she blew.

In the United Kingdom, there's a similar phenomenon going on: "libel tourism," where lawsuits get filed in British courts over news reports that celebrities and other plaintiffs couldn't even get on a court docket in their own countries.

That's because the U.K. has some of the strictest libel laws in the world, if you discount North Korea's tendency to make anybody who says something questionable disappear.

Plenty of publishers around the world aren't happy with the British way of doing things, especially because the Internet and global distribution of many publications put their works inside U.K. jurisdiction, opening them up to lawsuits.

But now there's a tiny organization who's on their side. Perhaps you heard of it?

The United Nations.

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Did you hear? ABC New is reporting that 6-8 vials of a "dangerous nerve gas" (phosgene) were discovered at the U.N. building early this morning.

And despite Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" that terrorist attacks were imminent this summer, it appears al-Qaeda's not to blame.

In fact, officials think it was probably just a bunch of silly U.N. officials who wanted to keep cannisters of "a poisonous, colorless gas with a suffocating odor like newly mown hay" as kitschy remembrances of the 1987 Iraq war.

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• Angelina Jolie enjoys snatching children from third-world countries, but can't be bothered to help those outside of her adopted family.

• NYC continues to harass spoiled diplomats about shelling out for those unpaid parking tickets.

• NFL star Michael Strahan's ex-wife feels "vindicated" after winning the right to her husband's hard-earned cash.

• Is there ever really a tactful way to broach the subject of harvesting your loved ones organs?

• New affordable housing plans for Brooklyn and Manhattan leaves Queens asking, "Hello? Is this thing on?"

Ladies and gentleman, you're looking at what may be the first time Us Weekly publishes a photo that will include "United Nations" in the caption. Witness: Nicole Kidman addressing the U.N. for the first time as a goodwill ambassador, diamond engagement ring a blazin'.

Sure, we may have seen the ring before — but never in such high esteem.

Nicole Kidman & Ring at U.N. [OAN]
Earlier: Nicole Kidman, the next UN celebrity

Reuters is offering up an explanation on how that bathroom note photo of President Bush asking for a bathroom break made its way to the wires.

As you recall from yesterday, Bush wrote a note to Condi Rice during a United Nations Security Council meeting and, well, the rest is history. Or bathroom humor, you decide. But it wasn't, Reuters assures us, a biased attack on Bush.

The white parts of the picture were overexposed, so a Reuters processor used Photoshop to burn down the note. This is a standard practice for news photos, Hershorn says, and the picture was not manipulated in any other way.

Which is the professional way of saying "George Bush did not write 'I have to go poopie really bad, Con-da-lee-za.'"

Says Reuters:

U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005.

Numbers one or number two? Because we all know Condi Rice has priorities to way. Like, is it "La di da, a plane is hitting the WTC, but that can wait" kind of urge, or is it "Poo, poo, pa choo, I heard it's really windy in New Orleans" kind of thing?

• Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner conceded the democratic primary race to Fernando Ferrer, which will give the congressman more time to get back to wooing Gigi Stone.

• Meanwhile, Robert Morgenthau will continue his 30-year reign as Manhattan D.A., thanks to a big win (59 percent of the vote) over Leslie Snyder.

• Russell Crowe is hoping Manhattan prosecutors don't think his phone throw was as serious as, well, a bloody cut up face. He's hoping to have his assault charges reduced so any admission or conviction wouldn't keep him from returning to the U.S. to work.

• The Lindsay Lohan "did she or didn't she?" breast implant debate continues, with discussion as obvious as her chest's truth.

• The 60th anniversary of the United Nations isn't merely causing Midtown East traffic woes but it's created the puzzle of placing so many presidents in a limited number of presidential suites.

• Sounds like Lisa Marie Presley cashed out of the Elvis business just in time. The Broadway show All Shook Up that's based on the rock'n'roller's music is expected to lose more than $10 million and will join Rosie O'Donnell's Taboo in the canceled corner.

• Despite 29 networks simulcasting Friday's Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast to more than 100 countries, only 24 million people tuned in. Compare that to the 9/11 telethon America: A Tribute to Heroes, which ranked in 89 million viewers.

It's a summer Friday. We're as surprised as you that we're still here.

• Reading about jury duty, at least on HuffPo, is somehow more obnoxious than actually reporting to jury duty.

• Donald Trump is willing to ruffle his hair to rebuild the United Nations building on the East River at a price tag of "just" $1.2 billion, which would save tax payers .. a couple billion'ish.

• It's Slurpee mania at 7-Eleven, which means David Letterman puppet Rupert might have to drop his pricetag for wild cherry and lemon-lime.

• While The Daily Show is doing wonderful things for Stephen Colbert's career, the same isn't so for an art guild director in Florida. Susan Buzzi was fired after appearing in a spoof that aired last week, poking fun at a piece of "explicit artwork" depicting an Arab sheik gettin' down with President Bush.

• FishbowlNY gets lusty and sing-song for Curbed's new blog, Eater. And we thought they had enough to be embarrassed about.

• With so much differentiation between the words coming out of Michael and Joe Jackson's mouths, we're not sure what to believe. But that won't stop us from relaying news that MJ has no plans on moving to Berlin. Well, until he releases a statement on his website next week.

• Meanwhile, Jacko might get off the hook from the latest round of molestation charges, thanks to a 1984 photo op with Ronald Regan and wifey Nancy that places him with the president during the time of the alleged dirty behavior.

• Whoops, not done with Michael quite yet! His molestation trial judge, Rodney Melville, ordered prosecutors to return hundreds of items seized during the investigation, including his nudie mags.

• Eva Longoria pretends she's not upset she wasn't nominated for an Emmy.

• The Associated Press, fooled into thinking their content is somehow unique, is raising prices for licensing rights.