Schroder adopts Russian girl of 3 from orphanage
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, the 60-year-old German leader, and his wife, Doris, have adopted a Russian girl from an orphanage in St Petersburg.
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Adoptions are increasingly in the headlines around the world. Some Hollywood celebrities have been in the news recently for adopting children abroad, and there has been a renewed interest in the plight of orphaned children. What is the annual number of child adoptions worldwide?
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Seven Texas children were recovering on  Tuesday after surviving for 10 months in a Nigerian shack when  their adoptive mother abandoned them, child welfare authorities  said on Tuesday.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his wife have adopted a three-year-old Russian girl, German media report.
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Gerhard Schröder is no stranger to sharing his life with members of the opposite sex. On Monday, it was revealed that there was a new young lady on the scene: his freshly adopted three-year old daughter, Viktoria.
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Three-year-old Victoria, from St Petersburg, has been living at the Schroders&#39; family home in Hanover in northern Germany for several weeks.
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An 18-month-old girl who has had six heart attacks since she was born is put top of the European transplant list.
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Thousands of Russian children are adopted by foreigners every year  --  but few go to such high-profile homes as the leader of Germany.
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MOSCOW -- Thousands of Russian children are adopted by foreigners every year -- but few go to such high-profile homes as the leader of Germany.
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HOUSTON -- Seven Texas children were discovered abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage, ravaged by disease and malnutrition, and have been brought back to the state.
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A little girl abandoned at an Australian train station is to be reunited in New Zealand with her grandmother, officials said Friday, as the international manhunt for her father continued.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Tavis Smiley talks with reporter Dawn Davenport about her latest article, &quot;Born in America, Adopted Abroad,&quot; featured in the October 27 edition of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Her family did not. Her father was killed and her sister starved to death. When the Russian army arrived, the rest of her family fled into western Germany.
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The event educated families on the adoption process. More than 100- thousand children in the US are waiting to be adopted. Kathy Searle/ Utah Director of Adoption Exchange: &quot;We want to give hope to children
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his wife, Doris, have adopted a 3-year-old Russian girl, German newspapers have reported.
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Thousands of Russian children are adopted by foreigners every year &#151; but few go to such high-profile homes as the leader of Germany.
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A Slovak aid worker kidnapped in the turbulent southern Russian republic of Ingushetia in May is freed by Russian forces.