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Angelina Jolie has a message: stop searching for photos of me naked and focus on important world issues.

Such as the crisis in Darfur, where countless citizens are being murdered by a militia.

In the most recent issue of Time, Jolie calls for for more action to end the conflict. Even though the Bush administration labeled the Darfur situation as "genocide," the actress doesn't understand why more people haven't felt "compelled us to intervene."

Why is Angelina Jolie so powerful? Because she focuses on world events even more than box office receipts.

She writes:

"Darfur has almost disappeared from the news, and experts now call it a 'low intensity" conflict.' But the intensity of the crisis has not lessened for those who are struggling to survive.

"More than 250,000 people from Darfur have lived destitute lives in refugee camps in Chad for six years now. Camps with more than two million internally displaced persons inside Darfur are even worse. Thirty percent of those displaced are school-age children. Girls leaving the camps are raped; boys leaving the camps are killed. They want an education; they want to go back to their villages, to their land; they want peace. But they also want justice."

Zany British comic Russell Brand, supremely gorgeous Israeli swimsuit model Bar Refaeli, and the world's most powerful celebrity all celebrate birthdays today. Yay!

The latter, Angelina Jolie, turns 34 today - surprisingly young considering how long she's been around, and how many kids the woman has. Here's a photo tribute ...

Russell Brand also turns 34 on this fourth of June ...

Lastly, we don't need much of an excuse to post Bar Refaeli pictures, but her 24th birthday seems like as good an occasion as any. Click to enlarge these beauties:

When does your favorite star turn another year older and probably not wiser? Who shares your big day? Check out our celebrity birthdays calendar now and see.

To anyone that saw her as Lara Croft, this should come as no surprise.

According to its annual Celebrity 100 List, Forbes has named Angelina Jolie the most powerful celebrity in the world.

The actress, who earned $27 million in 2008, knocked Oprah Winfrey out of the top spot, which the talk show host had held for two consecutive years.

Pitt came in at number-nine, while a couple of tweens can now Tweet to their fans about their powerful status: Miley Cyrus (number-29) and Taylor Swift (number-69).

Following Jolie, here's a look at the complete top 10:

• Oprah Winfrey
• Madonna
• Beyoncé Knowles
• Tiger Woods
• Bruce Springsteen
• Steven Spielberg
• Jennifer Aniston
• Brad Pitt
• Kobe Bryant

From Zanessa to Taylena, young couples with catchy monikers are almost making people forget about the nicknamed pairing that started it all:

Brangelina.

Indeed, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt can't exactly be found coming out of Hyde every night, but the beautiful twosome still knows how to pose for photographers when the situation calls for it.

This week, the pair was spotted at the Cannes Film Festival, as they sauntered down the red carpet for the world premiere of Inglourious Basterds. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, the movie showcases Pitt as the leader of a group tasked with killing as many Nazis as possible.

While he may play a brute on screen, the actor is really a lover at heart. He's proven as much over the years in Cannes, as he and Jolie can never keep their hands off one another at the event...

Click on the Brangelina pics above to enlarges PDA-laden photos of Pitt and Jolie at the Cannes Film Festival.

There's a new celebrity war raging. Well, a celebrity news war.

Us Weekly has launched an offensive against InTouch Weekly, using two full pages of their new issue to rip their rivals' bogus Brangelina gossip over the years.

Us reproduced 21 InTouch covers dating back to 2005, then shreds the fake stories one by one, killing its celebrity gossip counterpart over their articles.

Some of which are pretty great. At least three wedding reports and five accounts of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie splitting up, with some inventive Jennifer Aniston stories tossed in for good measure, made it into the collage of lies.

InTouch fired back: "We are flattered that our competition pays so much attention to InTouch that they were willing to devote a 2-page spread to us."

Mmm. They've got a point there, but come on, look at these headlines. After you've blatantly lied 17 times, doesn't the 18th fail to carry the same weight?

All we know is somewhere, Star Magazine is celebrating for not being called out.

Click to enlarge the hilarious photo montage below ...

From possibly having another baby to possibly calling it quits.

Some random magazine from Great Britain, Grazia, claims Brad Pitt flew to the family’s French mansion alone over Easter. For what purpose?

To nab his portion of he and Angelina Jolie's art collection, naturally, because the most beautiful couple ever created is supposedly on the verge ending its relationship.

“It’s going to be one of Hollywood’s nastiest breakups," a source said. "There’s talk of lawyers being brought in to divide their assets and decide custody arrangements. Their relationship has soured to the extent that they aren’t even talking."

Right. We'll believe that when we believe that Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag won't be reading off cue cards for their wedding.

This (totally untrue) rumor at least gives us an excuse to post numerous Brangelina pics. Click on each for a larger version...

Is Angelina Jolie pregnant again?

Yes, if you believe the April 27 issue of Star, a tabloid that has never heard a rumor it didn't report as fact.

"Angie is pregnant," a family insider told the magazine. "They'd been trying for another baby for months, but it was still a total shock when she found out. Brad and Angie have been fighting so much lately, it just didn't seem possible."

Sources say the actress is approximately two and a half months along.

"She's thrilled. She said she knew she was pregnant before the test confirmed it!"

Angela Jolie pregnant? Yawn. We've been there before. But Miley Cyrus has a secret brother?!? Can we hear more about that story?

From an acting standpoint, Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens have a ways to go before being spoken of in the same breath as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

The High School Musical duo is already challenging them in terms of pure popularity, however, and their collective sexiness was on display at the Oscars.

Two sexy couples. Trend-setting dresses and hot tuxes. The biggest night in all of entertainment. Who will win this celebrity fashion face-off for the ages?

Who looked better at the Oscars?

Angelina Jolie walked the red carpet at this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, hand-in-hand with Brad Pitt.

Sorry, ladies, but Pitt isn't shown in this picture.

Jolie's unusual outfit is, however, as the actress rocks a combination dress/pants that only she could pull off. At least that's how we feel about it.

What about you?

What do you think of Angelina Jolie's outfit?

Come on, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston.

We really don't wanna keep comparing these beauties, as the story is older than Hugh Hefner.

But what can we do when the actresses insist on donning similar outfits?!? No respectable celebrity gossip outlet could let this fashion face-off slide.

So, with heavy hearts, we ask readers to study the dueling pantsuits below and respond in the poll that follows:

Who looks better in a pantsuit?