WASHINGTON (AP) – Petra Nemcova said Thursday she recently made a tearful return to her work as a supermodel but still devotes most of her time to the children’s charity she established after recovering from injuries sustained in last year’s tsunami.

The 26-year-old Czech model and her boyfriend Simon Atlee were caught up in the tsunami while vacationing in Thailand. Atlee, a 33-year-old British fashion photographer, was killed. Nemcova suffered a broken pelvis.

Nemcova recounts her story in a newly published autobiography, “Love Always, Petra” (Warner Books), co-authored with Jane Scovell. Proceeds from the book go to the Happy Hearts Fund she established last summer.

Nemcova resumed modeling in September – punctuated by a two-day crying jag – but said it occupies only 30 percent of her time. The rest, she said, goes to her charity, which has raised at least $1.1 million for the youngest survivors of the tsunami.

“It’s not a job. It’s just my passion,” she told reporters at the National Press Club.

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NEW YORK (AP) – Britney Spears didn’t release an album of new material this year, but the new mom is still No. 1 on Yahoo’s annual list of the most-searched for terms on the Internet.

Spears, who has topped the list for three of the last four years, lost out to “American Idol” in 2004.

Although the 24-year-old pop star released an album of remixes, “B in the Mix, The Remixes,” in November, it was the birth of her son, Sean Preston Federline, on Sept. 14 that brought her the most attention, Yahoo said Thursday.

Following Spears were, in order, 50 Cent, the Cartoon Network, Mariah Carey, Green Day, Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton, Eminem, Ciara and Lindsay Lohan.

The list of overall top searches, all of which were entertainment related, “shows us that people are fixated on the activities of pop culture icons,” Yahoo “Buzz Index guru” Erik Gunther said in a statement.

Yahoo Inc. has claimed that its search index spans more than 20 billion Web documents and images, though that figure is virtually impossible to verify because there is no official auditing system.

Of the top news searches, “tsunami” led all other stories, followed by “Iraq” and “Michael Jackson trial.”

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On the Net:

http://search.yahoo.com/top2005

http://www.britneyspears.com/

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NEW YORK (AP) – Master P will fill the dancing shoes of his teen rapper son, Romeo, who has dropped out of ABC’s reality competition “Dancing With the Stars” because of a basketball injury.

The hip-hop mogul, whose real name is Percy Robert Miller, is CEO of No Limit Records. In recent years, he has tried out for different NBA teams, including the Sacramento Kings and the Denver Nuggets.

He will be paired with professional dancer Ashly DelGrosso for the competition, the network announced Wednesday.

The second season of “Dancing With the Stars” premieres Jan. 5 (8 p.m. EST). Other contestants include Tatum O’Neal, Drew Lachey, Tia Carrere and NFL great Jerry Rice.

In the hit summer series, Kelly Monaco (ABC’s “General Hospital”) and her partner beat John O’Hurley (“Seinfeld”) and his partner in the finals.

However, O’Hurley won the September dance-off rematch.

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On the Net:

http://abc.go.com/primetime/dancing/