According to weekend media reports, Beyoncé Knowles gave birth by C-section Saturday night in a private wing of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, was said to be by her side.

The baby's name is Blue Ivy Carter, which quickly began trending on Twitter thanks to a wave of tweets from the couple's famous friends over the weekend.

Solange Knowles, Beyoncé's sister and also a singer, tweeted that her niece is "the most beautiful girl in the world." Actress Paltrow, a longtime friend of the couple, posted the message: "Welcome to the world Blue! We love you already."

When a student commits suicide because of bullying, the bully
committed a crime. He or she likely won’t be charged. But an innocent was
slaughtered, even if the weapon was merely words slicing at the delicate
human heart.The victim calls out from beyond for justice. I have the
feeling that young Jamie Hubley, the kind,
funny Ottawa boy who killed himself in October, would ask only for some kind of
retroactive kindness

Singer Elton John is writing his first book, which will detail his personal experiences with the global AIDS epidemic and be released in July.Love Is The Cure: Ending The Global Aids Epidemic will be published by Hodder & Stoughton in the U.K. and sister company Little, Brown in the U.S. It will be released in July to coincide with an international AIDS conference in Washington.
Proceeds from the sale of Love Is The Cure will go to the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), which has raised $225 million US to support AIDS initiatives around the world since John founded it in 1992.

Rather unfamiliar names head the nominees list for Best Reggae Album at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in February 2012.
Previous Grammy-Winning Dancehall/Reggae superstars, Shaggy as well as Stephen Marley and
Ziggy Marley are three of the five contenders for the Reggae
award at next year's show. Stephen and Ziggy Marley are each vying for their
third Grammy while Shaggy will look for his second award.

BRITISH-based gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, has come out in support of Jamaican Reggae artiste Mista Majah P, who has released what is reportedly the first pro-gay Reggae album, entitled 'Tolerance'. 

Jamaican reggae singer Mista Majah P has released the world's first pro-gay reggae album. Called Tolerance and featuring rainbow stripes on the cover, the album includes 11 songs, variously in support of same-sex marriage and adoption by gay couples, as well as attacks on homophobic bullying and the US military policy, Don't Ask Don't Tell.

Eating animal foods also devastates our human spirit. Meat production requires a
merciless exploitation of what we know in our bones is the most sacred dimension
of life: mothers giving birth, nesting and nurturing their babies. Female
animals are usually raped with sperm guns, their babies are stolen from them and
killed, and the mothers (mere ‘breeders’) are also killed for their flesh after
s...everal years of cruel treatment. We drug them, rape them and terrorize them,
we sicken, oppress, imprison and torture them and destroy their families, and we
wonder why we find pandemics of rape, terror, oppression, incarceration, torture
and family breakdown in our human world. As we sow, so shall we reap."~Dr. Will Tuttle