Jolie expected to bring home adopted son within weeks

Hanoi, Vietnam – Angelina Jolie’s adoption application is being processed quickly and she could pick up her new 3 1/2-year-old son within a few weeks, Vietnam’s top adoption official said Tuesday.

Officials in Ho Chi Minh City are reviewing Jolie’s file and should complete their work by the end of the month at the latest, said Vu Duc Long, director of Vietnam’s International Adoption Department.

Jolie can pick up the child anytime after the application is approved, he said.

The child was abandoned at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital as a baby and then taken to the nearby Tam Binh orphanage, where he has lived ever since, said Nguyen Van Trung, the orphanage director.

The boy gets along well with other children and loves to play soccer, Trung said.

The adoption is being processed quickly because the boy is an older child, and his files were nearly complete before Jolie decided to adopt, Trung said.

Jolie and Brad Pitt have three children: 5-year-old Maddox, adopted from Cambodia; 2-year-old Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia; and another daughter, Shiloh, who was born to the couple in May.

Heather Mills ready to compete on ‘Dancing With the Stars’

New York – Heather Mills says her decision to compete on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” is no publicity stunt.

Mills, who is divorcing former Beatle Paul McCartney, says she is appearing on the show for charity, not to gain public sympathy.

Mills, who lost her leg below the knee in a 1993 motorcycle accident, is the first contestant with an artificial limb to compete on the dance show.

“As much as everyone would love it to go flying, I’m sure it’s not going to come off,” Mills says. “It can, once it gets hot, start to slide and come off, so I’ve pulled a sleeve over the top, which doesn’t look as cosmetically good.”

She adds: “I’ve got a secondary spare leg just in case I overdo it on the foot and it breaks or something.”

Mills says she plans to donate her appearance fee to Viva! – an organization that campaigns on behalf of animals killed for food.

“Dancing With the Stars” returns Monday for its fourth season.

Mills says her participation on the show is “going to help a lot of kids with disabilities and adults that want to get up and learn to dance, and know that with an artificial leg, you can dance.”