Jay-Z is a very proud and, as ever, musically prolific papa. In keeping with the latter reputation, the rapper has released a touching ode to his newborn daughter, Blue Ivy , on his Web site . The track arrived online today, just two days after she reportedly made her much-anticipated arrival at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital . Read full article > >

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Jay-Z releases new song about baby Blue Ivy in which he reveals Beyonce’s previous miscarriage

NEW DELHI — As he waited in the rain for India’s veteran anti-corruption crusader to emerge from jail, call-center employee Amit Bhardwaj was still troubled by the bribe he was forced to pay three months ago to get a birth certificate for his firstborn son. “I hated it,” he said, miming how the official had greedily counted the notes, worth about $20, in full public view. “I had hatred for myself and for him. This was the first thing I did for my newborn son.” Like millions of other Indians, Bhardwaj has found a degree of personal redemption by joining a national movement against corruption led by the unlikely figure of 74-year-old Anna Hazare . The peaceful movement has drawn in Indians of all ages and from all walks of life, but it marks the first time India’s new, urban middle class has put aside creature comforts and personal ambition and taken to the streets for a political cause. Read full article > >

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Anna Hazare inspires young, middle-class awakening in India

Police try to trace a 17-year-old Vietnamese woman who left her newborn son in hospital the day after he was born.

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Teenage mother abandons baby boy

There’s a new addition to England’s extended royal family-the newborn baby daughter of Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly. The girl is the first great-granddaughter of the queen, making her 12th in line to the throne, as well as the first daughter of…

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Queen ‘Delighted’ by First Great-Grandchild

The first pictures of Ed Miliband and his newborn son Samuel are published.

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Ed boy – pictures of Miliband baby published

A Pennsylvania woman is accused of killing at least four of her newborn babies and hiding their remains in a closet.

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US woman ‘killed four newborns’