LITTLE ROCK — Barbara Walters, 83, who was hospitalized after falling and hitting her head at a pre-inaugural party in Washington on Jan. 19, now has the chickenpox and remains hospitalized, said her fellow The View host, Whoopi Goldberg, who added: “We love you, we miss you. We just don’t want to hug you.”

Pietro Beccari, CEO of the Fendi fashion house, announced that the company is financing a $2.8 million restoration of Rome’s Trevi Fountain, famed as a setting in the film La Dolce Vita.

Maj. William Hennessy, a Marine Corps lawyer who was assigned to defend Waleed bin Attash in a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been fired by the man whom prosecutors accuse of being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden and said the action was not related to his work, but rather the distrust the 9/11 suspects have of the tribunal and their appointed military attorneys.

Michael J. Astrue, 56, the Social Security commissioner, said he will step down in February after completing his six-year term.

Kwame Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit, has been released from a city lockup where he spent the weekend on a parole violation in the 2008 criminal conviction on obstruction of justice in a scandal involving text messages and an affair with a top aide.

Jean D’Amelio Swyer, a spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency, urged Americans to “leave your firearms at home,” adding that if a weapon is in the vehicle, it must be declared, and that failing to do so can result in fines, jail time or both.

Casey Anthony, who was acquitted in 2011 of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, has filed for bankruptcy in Tampa, Fla., claiming about $1,100 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities, including $500,000 for attorney fees and costs.

Ed Koch, 88, the former mayor of New York City, has been readmitted to the hospital for fluid in his lungs, just two days after he was released, his spokesman said.

Samuel Yin, a Taiwanese tycoon and head of the Ruentex Group, announced the establishment of the Tang Prize Foundation with an initial endowment of $103 million with $1.7 million prizes being awarded every other year to international leaders in bio-pharmaceutical science, sustainable development, the study of China and the rule of law - fields not covered by the Nobel Prizes.

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