Hayek splits

Salma Hayek has called off her engagement to businessman Francois-Henri Pinault (above, with Hayek), her representative said yesterday but did not comment further. The couple announced their plans to wed in March 2007, and welcomed a daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault, several months later. (AP)

A tracking firm says "The Dark Knight" has set a box office record for a midnight debut. Media By Numbers says the new Batman movie starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger brought in $18.5 million yesterday from its midnight screening in 3,040 theaters. That bested the 2005 performance of "Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith," which took in $16.9 million at its debut. (AP)

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have reached an agreement that grants the pop singer more overnight visits with her children and averts a custody trial that was scheduled for next month, attorneys said yesterday. The agreement was announced following a closed-door session between lawyers for both sides and a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner. Neither Spears nor Federline appeared, but the settlement resolves several lingering financial and visitation issues, attorneys said. Spears will now have three visits a week from Sean Preston and Jayden James, with at least two overnight visits, her attorney said. Spears was granted one overnight visitation per week in late June. (AP)

Rapper 50 Cent is free to take a vacation with his son after passing a court-ordered drug test. The 33-year-old entertainer was in a Long Island courtroom to ask a judge for permission to take 11-year-old Marquise on a trip next month. A drug test was ordered, and it came back clean. Marquise lives with his mother, Shaniqua Tompkins. She is 50 Cent's ex-girlfriend and blames 50 Cent for a fire that destroyed the Long Island mansion where she and the boy were living. He has denied the accusation. (AP)

Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of the rap group Run-DMC was scheduled to undergo surgery at a New Jersey hospital yesterday to remove two major blood clots in his left arm. McDaniels, 44, had been suffering from pain and swelling in his arm when doctors discovered the clots, his publicist said. (AP)

"We have no plans to part company any time soon."-- "CBS Evening News" Anchor Katie Couric, after CBS News president Sean McManus said her job is not in danger despite all the talk