Madonna is back in the African country of Malawi. Madge brought David Banda with her from England, the Malawian boy she intends to adopt. According to her rep, she is not planning on adopting any more children from the region. She is there to oversee the construction of a children's heath care centre that her foundation is funding. No word on whether David will visit with his biological father who lives in Malawi.

Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera might have released songs in Spanish, but Avril Lavigne has outdone the lot of them.

Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese and Mandarin — she's covered them all for her single "Girlfriend" .But how well did she do it?

We assembled a panel of our own international experts, ranging from newsroom interns to on-air talent, each fluent in one of the languages Avril recorded in, to tell us how the singer translates the lyrics, including the bouncy chorus ("Hey! Hey! You! You! I don't like your girlfriend/ No way! No way! I think you need a new one/ Hey! Hey! You! You! I could be your girlfriend").

Common recently previewed new album in New York.
You don't earn the moniker "Common Sense" for nothing. Just ask the Chicago MC who used to sign his name that way (before shortening it for legal reasons).

When he started working on the follow-up to his acclaimed — and some would say, career-saving — salvo, 2005's Be, Common reached out to his Windy City partner Kanye West to once again produce the bulk of the album. Their Be collaborations had brought out the best in the poetic lyricist, especially with street gems like "Chi-City" and ethereal numbers like "They Say."

Problem was, West was on tour overseas when Common started digging into Finding Forever. So Com had a decision to make: wait for 'Ye and lose momentum or work without him and lose the cohesive production that had long eluded him.

Com, it turns out, smartly chose neither: Instead, he hopped on a flight and met West abroad. Common tagged along with Kanye throughout Spain, New Zealand and Australia as the two laid the foundation for what became the former's seventh album, due July 10. In addition to West, the set also features collaborations with Lily Allen and Will.I.Am.