Beyonce ’s daughter will reportedly be bathed in supreme luxury, thanks to Kelly Rowland . MediaTakeOut, and later “ GMA ” reported that Rowland, who let the whole “ It’s a girl! ” cat out of the bag, purchased a baby-size tub covered in Swarovski crystal as a gift. The bathing receptacle, created by Lori Gardner of The Diamond Bathtub company , retails for $5,200. A portion of that money goes to charity. Read full article > >

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Beyonce’s baby to be bathed in $5,200 crystal tub, courtesy of Kelly Rowland

One day in March, pranksters turned the cafeteria at Robert E. Lee High School in Fairfax County into a maelstrom of hurled milk cartons and leftover lunch. Close to 100 teenagers joined the melee, flinging sandwiches and water bottles. Hundreds of others, caught in the crossfire, screamed and ran for the exits. A 17-year-old, eight months pregnant, was knocked to the ground. Read full article > >

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Fairfax principals want indoor school cameras

Pregnant women who eat low-fat yoghurt daily can increase the risk of their child developing asthma and hay fever, a study says.

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January Jones has given birth to a baby boy. The actress — who plays Betty Draper , mother of three, on “Mad Men” — gave birth to her son on Tuesday, People reports . His name: Xander Dane Jones. Jones, 33, confirmed her pregnancy in April but did not reveal the father’s identity. Read full article > >

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Ex-presidential candidate John Edwards’ trial on campaign finance charges has been delayed until January, giving his defense team time it says it needs to comb through more than 400,000 pages of material turned over by the government. The former North Carolina senator was charged in June with using about $1 million in under-the-table payments from political supporters to hide his pregnant mistress Rielle Hunter during his 2008 run. He’s also charged with helping to falsify campaign finance reports to cover up the payments. He has pleaded not guilty. Read full article > >

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E. Patrick Johnson has someone he’d like you to meet. Several someones, actually: a dozen African American gay men born and raised below the Mason-Dixon line. In Johnson’s one-man show, “Sweet Tea,” based on his book of the same name , Johnson will portray each of these men, and himself. He wants you to meet Stephen, who tried to do as his mother said and not grow up to be gay. He tried not growing up at all but failed at his suicide attempt. So he studied other boys in his school, observed their “normal behavior” and copied it. He was so good that he wound up with a girlfriend, who wound up pregnant, so Stephen wound up a father at the age of 17. Read full article > >

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Backstage: ‘Sweet Tea’ is one man’s stories of being black and gay in the South

Singer Beyonce has outlined a baby bump to photographers after months of speculation she might be pregnant.

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Singer Beyonce reveals pregnancy

A leading researcher says the NHS should consider screening pregnant women to protect their babies from rickets.

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Call to tackle ‘rickets comeback’

What would your health insurance cover if you got pregnant? How much could you expect to pay out of pocket if you needed treatment for diabetes? How do your plan’s benefits compare with another company’s? Starting as soon as March, consumers could have a better handle on such questions, under new rules aimed at decoding the fine print of health insurance plans. Regulations proposed by the Obama administration on Wednesday would require all private health insurance plans to provide current and prospective customers a brief, standardized summary of policy costs and benefits. Read full article > >

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New health insurance rules would let consumers compare plans in ‘plain English’

A federal judge ruled that the class-action case on behalf of pregnant women at the company lacked evidence.

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Judge Rules for Bloomberg L.P. in Class-Action Bias Lawsuit

Around 30 people, including two children and a pregnant woman, have been injured after a bus overturned at Central Station in Belfast.

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Hundred of thousands of baby’s lives could be saved each year if pregnant women were screened for syphilis, researchers say.

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Syphilis tests ‘cut baby deaths’

On the 2nd anniversary of the Green Movement in Iran, Aslan Media sits down with Maziar Bahari, Journalist and author of Then They Came for Me, to discuss his book, his incarceration in Iran, and his perspective on the current turmoil in his homeland. When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater.

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Aslan Media Book Chat: Maziar Bahari

Like many expectant mothers these days, Autumn Yates posted updates about her pregnancy on Facebook. “It’s nice for my extended family to see pictures from time to time of me getting bigger and little comments like, ‘34-week check-up went well!’ ” said Yates, 29, a Spanish teacher from Oakton. “I don’t see anything wrong with that. I think there is kind of a line sometimes, though.” For Yates, that line is somewhere around “creepy” 4-D ultrasound photos and cringe-inducing comments such as, “My cervix is now dilated [fill in the blank] inches!” Read full article > >

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Pregnant women and families are sharing photos and more on Facebook, Web sites

Like many expectant mothers these days, Autumn Yates posted updates about her pregnancy on Facebook. “It’s nice for my extended family to see pictures from time to time of me getting bigger and little comments like, ‘34-week check-up went well!’ ” said Yates, 29, a Spanish teacher from Oakton. “I don’t see anything wrong with that. I think there is kind of a line sometimes, though.” For Yates, that line is somewhere around “creepy” 4-D ultrasound photos and cringe-inducing comments such as, “My cervix is now dilated [fill in the blank] inches!” Read full article > >

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Pregnant women and families are sharing photos and more on Facebook, Web sites