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In case the word of Us Weekly wasn't good enough for you, Gwen Stefani confirmed, before several thousand fans during the final stop of a concert tour in Fort Lauderdale Wednesday night, that she is pregnant. Calling "all my Florida girls" to shout "back it up!" during the song "Crash," she added: "I wanna hear you say it so loud my baby hears it!"

A black-market body parts ring stole the bones of longtime "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke just before his body was cremated after his death last year at age 95. The theft, reported yesterday by both the New York Post and Daily News, was revealed in a larger investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney's office. The ring allegedly sold the veteran journalist's bones for $7,000 to medical supply firms for transplantation purposes.