Museum for Jackie Chan

People

Jackie Chan's Web site says construction has begun on a museum for the action-movie star in the Chinese financial capital Shanghai. A statement published Friday says the 54-year-old attended a ceremony marking the start of work earlier this week. The museum will house props and costumes from Chan's movies, photos and other memorabilia, the Web site said. Construction is scheduled to finish in October 2009.

One for Bruce Lee, too

A developer who owns Bruce Lee's old home in Hong Kong lobbied the government to turn the property into a museum. Yu Pang-lin met Thursday with Hong Kong's commerce and economic development secretary about his plans for the two-story house, where Lee lived in 1972 and '73 and is currently used as an hourly motel. The 86-year-old developer-turned-philanthropist wants the Hong Kong government to raise funds for the museum. Lee, the "Enter the Dragon" star who died in Hong Kong in 1973 at age 32 from swelling of the brain, is buried in Seattle.

On TV

Good morning, Vietnam

Donald Trump's beauty-pageant baby, Miss Universe, will air live Sunday night on NBC — from Nha Trang, Vietnam. Citizens get to pay as much as $1,800 per ticket for the show, which will be hosted by two of Ho Chi Minh's greatest spiritual heirs, Jerry Springer and Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown.

In the courts

Holy smokes

If you're a Rastafarian in Italy, you might be able to possess more marijuana than the law allows everyone else. Italy's highest criminal court has ruled that the fact Rastafarians consider marijuana use a religious sacrament should be taken into account if they are tried on trafficking charges, lawyers in a recent case and news reports said Friday. Smoking pot in Italy is not a crime, but being caught with amounts considered too large for personal use can bring charges of trafficking.

Critters

Bull-run tally

On the fifth day of the eight-day running of the bulls at Pamplona's annual San Fermin Festival, just one daredevil was injured Friday and nobody was gored, officials said. So far this year about half-a-dozen runners have been gored, although none seriously, in the centuries-old festival that became world famous with Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises." Fourteen runners have died in the running of the bulls since record-keeping began in 1924.

By the numbers

Pirate attacks up

Pirate attacks worldwide surged 19 percent in the past three months compared to the January-March period, largely due to increased incidents in Somalia and Nigeria, an international maritime agency said Friday. There were 62 attacks on ships between April and June, up from 52 in the previous quarter, the International Maritime Bureau said in a report released by its piracy-reporting center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Africa remains the world's top piracy hot spot, with 24 reported attacks in Somalia and 18 in Nigeria so far this year, it said. Indonesia ranked third on the global list with 13 reports, mostly of low-level theft. Pirates boarded 71 vessels worldwide this year and hijacked 12. In all, 190 crew members were taken hostage, seven killed and another seven are missing and presumed dead, it said.

Today In History

1543: England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.

1690: Forces led by William of Orange defeated the army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.

1862: Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.

1984: Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale announced he'd chosen U.S. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York to be his running mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.

Today's Birthdays

Comedian Bill Cosby, 71. Fitness guru Richard Simmons, 60. Writer-producer Brian Grazer, 57. Actress Cheryl Ladd, 57. Gospel singer Sandi Patty, 52. Olympic gold-medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, 37. Actress Anna Friel, 32. Actor Topher Grace, 30. Actress Michelle Rodriguez, 30.

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