A Rose for the Stallones

Los Angeles Sylvester Stallone’s wife, Jennifer Flavin Stallone, has given birth to the couple’s third child.

Scarlet Rose was born at 1:39 p.m. Saturday at a Los Angeles hospital, publicist Paul Bloch said Tuesday. She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces, and was 22 inches long.

Stallone and his 33-year-old wife have two daughters, 5-year-old Sophia and 3-year-old Sistine.

The 55-year-old actor also has two sons from a previous marriage, Sergio and Sage.

Armani a U.N. ambassador

Geneva Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani will become the United Nations’ latest celebrity ambassador at a ceremony in his home country, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.

Ruud Lubbers, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, said he was proud to appoint Armani as a goodwill ambassador for the agency, which cares for some 20 million people worldwide.

The Giorgio Armani Christmas campaign for Afghan refugees included a “substantial donation” to UNHCR. The Armani group also sponsored advertisements, sold specially designed sweatshirts for UNHCR, and asked its clients to make donations to the agency.

Current ambassadors include boxing great Muhammad Ali, actors Angelina Jolie and Michael Douglas, and French soccer star Zinedine Zidane.

From director to doctor

New Haven, Conn. Steven Spielberg received an honorary degree from Yale University for a career that has included films such as “Jaws” and “Schindler’s List.”

The Yale band broke into the theme music from the “Indiana Jones” movies Monday to herald the honorary doctorate for Spielberg.

“Your movies entertain, engage and enlighten,” said university President Richard Levin. “For your artistry and imagination, we honor you with this degree of doctor of humane letters.”

The director was honored for his many films as well as his work to preserve memories of the Holocaust with “Schindler’s List” and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

Museum grounded in history

New Concord, Ohio After being restored into an authentic Depression-era homestead, the boyhood home of John Glenn was opened as a museum on Memorial Day.

Glenn, who became a Marine fighter pilot, then an astronaut and U.S. senator, waved to and chatted with visitors Monday from the porch of the two-story white frame house that his father built in the 1920s.

The John and Annie Glenn Historic Site opened to the public after nearly a decade’s worth of work. The home is furnished with many pieces from the original Glenn home. Model airplanes like those Glenn built as a child hang in his bedroom.

Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth on Feb. 20, 1962. In 1998, at age 77, he became the oldest space traveler when he returned on the shuttle Discovery.