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AP - After decades as a performer and a provocative celebrity, Madonna is making her debut as an Israeli newspaper correspondent with a piece about her spiritual awakening.

AP - Madonna lost a bid Friday to adopt a second child from Malawi, rejected by a judge who said she would not bend the country's strict residency rules even for a wealthy celebrity.

AP - A British children's charity has urged Madonna to stop and think before adding another African child to her celebrity family.

file photo, Madonna attends a special screening of 'Revolver' hosted by the Cinema Society and Piaget at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)" border="0" />AP - A-Rod and the Material Girl? That's a lot of hits. Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna have become close just as their marriages are disintegrating have both the celebrity gossip industry and the sporting world — each a chatty bunch — buzzing with questions about the two "friends."

file photo, Madonna attends a special screening of 'Revolver' hosted by the Cinema Society and Piaget at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)" border="0" />AP - A-Rod and the Material Girl? That's a lot of hits. Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna have become close just as their marriages are disintegrating have both the celebrity gossip industry and the sporting world — each a chatty bunch — buzzing with questions about the two "friends."

Madonna's publicist, on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006, shows entertainer Madonna visiting with children during her trip to Malawi. Madonna visited an orphanage in Malawi on the second day of a trip to highlight the plight of AIDS orphans. Madonna has adopted a 1-year-old Malawian boy whose mother died a month after child birth, the baby's father, Yohame Banda, claimed Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Shavawn Rissman)" border="0" />AP - Madonna filed adoption papers at a Malawi court Thursday, and a judge issued an interim order allowing the celebrity couple to go home with a motherless 1-year-old boy.