NEW YORK - Hilary Duff and Rob Schneider will co-host the 2005 Teen Choice Awards on Fox television.

"The Perfect Man" leading lady and "The Hot Chick" leading man will hand out awards such as Choice Liplock, Choice Movie Chemistry and Choice Male Hottie during the Los Angeles ceremony Aug. 16.

Gwen Stefani will kick off the show with a performance of "Hollaback Girl." She will be honored with the Teen Choice Visionary Award.

Duff won Choice Movie Breakout Performance in 2003 for her role in "The Lizzie McGuire Movie." She recently starred in the films "Raise Your Voice" and "A Cinderella Story."

Schneider starred as "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," a role he'll reprise in the upcoming sequel, "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo."

MINNEAPOLIS - R.I.P., Arnold the Crime-Fighting Pig.A south Minneapolis neighborhood is mourning the loss of Arnold, a 450-pound porker who once foiled a burglary. The beast died last month from apparent heart failure. He was 6.Arnold earned his name after sinking his teeth into one of two intruders who tried to rob his owner, Becky Moyer, at gunpoint in February 2001. She had just returned home when the two men confronted her in her garage. When they moved inside, Arnold was sitting patiently by the refrigerator waiting for his dinner.Moyer screamed, and Arnold sprang into action. When he clamped down on the burglar's leg, the intruders bolted and left behind a puddle of blood."I never dreamed, never dreamed that a pig could be a protector," Moyer said. "Never."By The Associated Press