Save the Children UK tells the popular pop singer Madonna to rethink her desire to adopt another child. The child safety charity says the international adoption is not a norm and promotes children being abducted from their homes or abandoned by their parents.

A Malawi judge has approved Madonna's foreign child adoption of a Malawian boy she found in an orphanage in 2006.

The Liberian government says it is concerned about the high number of children adopted from the country in recent years and brought to the United States. The government also says it has discovered that some of the children have ended up either as prostitutes or working in menial labor.

The Ethiopian baby adopted by Angelina Jolie was conceived after her mother was raped. Mentwabe Dawit, mother of two-year-old Zahara, has described how she was attacked one evening in 2004 after a day's work at a construction site in the southern Ethiopian town of Awasa.

Authorities said Thursday they have halted the work of all foreign adoption agencies in Russia for several months, The Associated Press news agency reports.