Reuters People News Summary

Reuters People News Summary

Following is a summary of current people news briefs. George Clooney returns to television with 'Catch 22'

Twenty years after he left medical drama "ER", George Clooney returns to television this month with an adaptation of Joseph Heller's "Catch-22", a novel whose complexity the actor said made it ideal for a six-part series. The Oscar winner, known for films like "Syriana", "Gravity" and "The Monuments Men", also served as executive producer and directed two episodes of the Hulu series set during World War Two about a member of a U.S. bomber squadron fighting the higher-ups in the military bureaucracy. Prince Harry given baby romper at first workday as father

Prince Harry was given a baby outfit for his son Archie by Princess Margriet of the Netherlands on Thursday as the new dad went back to work to mark a year until the 2020 edition of the Invictus Games he founded for wounded military personnel. Harry, the Duke of Sussex, said he had "no idea" whether his son, whose birth was announced on Monday, would attend the sporting event in a year's time - but he now has the baby onesie emblazoned with its logo. Insufficient evidence to conclude Prodigy frontman committed suicide, British inquest hears

Prodigy frontman Keith Flint died as a result of hanging and drugs that were in his system, an inquest into his death heard on Wednesday, but there was not enough evidence to determine he committed suicide. Flint, a figurehead of the 1990s rave movement famous for tracks such as "Firestarter" and "Breathe", was found dead at his home in March, aged 49. Royal baby Archie: Prince Harry and Meghan name their 'bundle of joy'

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan announced on Wednesday they had named their newborn son Archie as they showed him off to the world, saying their "little bundle of joy" was magic. In a post on their Instagram account accompanying a picture of the parents with Queen Elizabeth, her husband Prince Philip and Meghan's mother Doria Ragland, the couple said the seventh-in-line to the British throne would be known as Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. David Beckham gets six-month driving ban for using phone at wheel: BBC

Former England soccer captain David Beckham was banned from driving for six months on Thursday after admitting using his mobile phone while driving, the BBC reported. Beckham, who played for Manchester United and Real Madrid, admitted using his mobile phone as he drove his Bentley through central London in November last year, the BBC said.

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