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(CNN) -- Malawi's decision to reject pop star Madonna's adoption of a local child has reignited global debate about the ethics of international adoption.

Author Melissa Fay Greene poses with her family, which includes biological and adopted children.

Some international aid groups have praised the decision as best for the child, a 4-year-old girl named Chifundo James.

"I think it really highlights the bigger picture that there are so many children living in poverty in Malawi, and while Madonna has good intentions ... children would be better off staying in their own communities whenever possible," said Karen Hansen-Kuhn, policy director for ActionAid USA, a development group that also works in Malawi.

"We really need to stay focused on the needs of Malawi and of all the children there," she added.

To get another perspective on the situation, CNN also talked with Melissa Fay Greene, an author and mother of five adopted children.

Greene, who lives in Atlanta, Georgia, is the mother of four biological children, four children adopted from Ethiopia and one adopted child from Bulgaria.

The following is an edited transcript of that conversation:

CNN: What's your initial reaction to the news that Madonna's adoption of a Malawian child has been rejected?

Greene: Surprise. ... It was awfully tricky with Madonna's first adoption, when the child turned out to have devoted family members nearby. [The singer's adoption of a Malawian boy was finalized last year.] And if that's true with this child also, it seems a similar sticky situation.

That's not the situation for the majority of orphanage children around the world, who don't have caring grandparents or aunts and uncles a short walk or bike ride away.

I think it gives people an odd perspective on what international adoption can mean for children who don't have any support network outside the walls of an orphanage.

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage. ...

There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not being doted upon by parents. For any child, that's the bottom line. The fact is that a human child wants that mommy or daddy or both. We're just wired to want that and to need that. And there's no way an institutional setting can give a human baby what the child needs. It's impossible. So you have to balance priorities. ...

I think what some of the human rights group say is absolutely accurate: that international adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. ...

At the same time, international adoption, even though it doesn't solve the whole problem, it solves a problem for a few. I think it can be a brilliant solution to the problem of adults wanting a child in their lives or wanting more children in their lives and the problem of children who want parents in their lives.

CNN: How is it different for a celebrity person seeking an [international] adoption than for yourself?

Greene: We don't jet in, take a child and fly out with a child. For an average citizen trying to adopt, it takes most of a year. First of all, you work with a country that already has international adoption regulations in place, so you have a bureaucracy dealing with international adoption. A big part of that is determining that the child is a true orphan, that there is no one who can care for the child. And in the case of our older kids' adoptions, people had to come to court to testify that there was no one to take the children. So you don't run the risk of 'Oh, whoops, there's a grandmother down the street.' ...

CNN: There's been some chatter today online questioning why a person wouldn't adopt an orphaned child from their own country.

Greene: Within the adoption world, it's a non-issue. There are children all over the world who need families, and some find their children in Philadelphia, and some find their children in Bulgaria, you know? ...

It's just outsiders who look on and judge disapprovingly, but then they don't go on to adopt the neighborhood children, right? ... There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or from a Russian orphanage should reach out and do it.

CNN: What has the experience been like for your own foster children?

Greene: We're a white Jewish family in Atlanta, but Atlanta is a major city for eastern African immigrants. So our children are in touch with the Ethiopian diaspora, and they feel very much a part of that. Atlanta is full of Ethiopian restaurants, markets, festivals. For a while, my kids were playing on weekends with an Ethiopian soccer league. I have an Ethiopian baby sitter who speaks to them only in Amharic so they won't lose their language, and we always have Ethiopian food here.

Two years ago, we went back to Ethiopia with the kids and had a big reunion for one of my sons and his extended family ... We just consider ourselves sort of part of this amazing bicontinental family.

CNN: The first time you adopted internationally, can you tell me what your ethical considerations were and how you worked through that personally?

Greene: Our first adoption was of a boy in rural Bulgaria. An incredibly poor orphanage. The kids were hungry, thirsty, no education. I first met our son, Jesse, when he was 4. He was 4 years old, and he did not know what his own name was ...

When he first came, he was just so anxious about food. When he would wake up, he was just shaking, wondering if there was going to be enough food. So I started waking him up with food.

He had issues with water. He wasn't sure if there was going to be enough water to drink, so I bought him a little canteen so he could wear his water all of the time.

Do I have ethical issues about taking him out of that orphanage? I don't.

CNN: Is there anything else you wanted to add?

Greene: I admire Madonna. And I don't understand why everyone attacks Madonna. I think that she is in part trying to raise the world's consciousness about the African orphan crisis.

You know, 95 percent of the children orphaned by AIDS [globally] are in sub-Saharan Africa. You don't hear world leaders talking about it. Where is the global outrage? ...

So, into the breach steps a celebrity. But don't attack her for it, you know. Maybe her methods are not what ours would be, but how many of us are Madonna? But at least she is out there; she's creating a school.

Obviously, she's fallen in love with the Malawian children to such an extent she wants to make some of them her own. And I think that it's great. I just don't understand why the world's attacking her. Let other people step forth and do something. At least she's trying. That's my feeling.

text: CNN

text: Malawi

text: 's

text: decision

text: to

text: reject

text: pop

text: star

text: Madonna

text: 's

text: adoption

text: of

text: a

text: local

text: child

text: has

text: reignited

text: global

text: debate

text: about

text: the

text: ethics

text: of

text: international

text: adoption

text: Author

text: Melissa

text: Fay

text: Greene

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text: her

text: family

text: which

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text: adopted

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text: the

text: child

text: a

text: old

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text: Chifundo

text: James

text: I

text: think

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text: picture

text: that

text: there

text: are

text: so

text: many

text: children

text: living

text: in

text: poverty

text: in

text: Malawi

text: and

text: while

text: Madonna

text: has

text: good

text: intentions

text: children

text: would

text: be

text: better

text: off

text: staying

text: in

text: their

text: own

text: communities

text: whenever

text: possible

text: said

text: Karen

text: Hansen

text: Kuhn

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text: ActionAid

text: USA

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text: the

text: situation

text: CNN

text: also

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text: with

text: Melissa

text: Fay

text: Greene

text: an

text: author

text: and

text: mother

text: of

text: five

text: adopted

text: children

text: Greene

text: who

text: lives

text: in

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text: is

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text: mother

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text: one

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text: The

text: following

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text: an

text: edited

text: transcript

text: of

text: that

text: conversation

text: CNN

text: What

text: 's

text: your

text: initial

text: reaction

text: to

text: the

text: news

text: that

text: Madonna

text: 's

text: adoption

text: of

text: a

text: Malawian

text: child

text: has

text: been

text: rejected

text: Greene

text: Surprise

text: It

text: was

text: awfully

text: tricky

text: with

text: Madonna

text: 's

text: first

text: adoption

text: when

text: the

text: child

text: turned

text: out

text: to

text: have

text: devoted

text: family

text: members

text: nearby

text: The

text: singer

text: 's

text: adoption

text: of

text: a

text: Malawian

text: boy

text: was

text: finalized

text: last

text: year

text: And

text: if

text: that

text: 's

text: true

text: with

text: this

text: child

text: also

text: it

text: seems

text: a

text: similar

text: sticky

text: situation

text: That

text: 's

text: not

text: the

text: situation

text: for

text: the

text: majority

text: of

text: orphanage

text: children

text: around

text: the

text: world

text: who

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: caring

text: grandparents

text: or

text: aunts

text: and

text: uncles

text: a

text: short

text: walk

text: or

text: bike

text: ride

text: away

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: gives

text: people

text: an

text: odd

text: perspective

text: on

text: what

text: international

text: adoption

text: can

text: mean

text: for

text: children

text: who

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: any

text: support

text: network

text: outside

text: the

text: walls

text: of

text: an

text: orphanage

text: You

text: often

text: hear

text: attacks

text: on

text: international

text: adoption

text: as

text: robbing

text: a

text: child

text: of

text: his

text: or

text: her

text: culture

text: and

text: that

text: 's

text: both

text: true

text: and

text: false

text: It

text: 's

text: true

text: that

text: an

text: internationally

text: adopted

text: child

text: loses

text: the

text: rich

text: background

text: of

text: history

text: and

text: religion

text: and

text: culture

text: and

text: language

text: that

text: the

text: child

text: was

text: born

text: into

text: but

text: the

text: cruel

text: fact

text: is

text: that

text: most

text: children

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: access

text: to

text: the

text: local

text: beautiful

text: culture

text: within

text: an

text: orphanage

text: There

text: 's

text: a

text: culture

text: in

text: orphanages

text: that

text: children

text: are

text: eager

text: to

text: escape

text: from

text: and

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: culture

text: of

text: being

text: reared

text: as

text: a

text: group

text: and

text: not

text: being

text: doted

text: upon

text: by

text: parents

text: For

text: any

text: child

text: that

text: 's

text: the

text: bottom

text: line

text: The

text: fact

text: is

text: that

text: a

text: human

text: child

text: wants

text: that

text: mommy

text: or

text: daddy

text: or

text: both

text: We

text: 're

text: just

text: wired

text: to

text: want

text: that

text: and

text: to

text: need

text: that

text: And

text: there

text: 's

text: no

text: way

text: an

text: institutional

text: setting

text: can

text: give

text: a

text: human

text: baby

text: what

text: the

text: child

text: needs

text: It

text: 's

text: impossible

text: So

text: you

text: have

text: to

text: balance

text: priorities

text: I

text: think

text: what

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: human

text: rights

text: group

text: say

text: is

text: absolutely

text: accurate

text: that

text: international

text: adoption

text: does

text: not

text: begin

text: to

text: solve

text: the

text: problems

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: orphaned

text: children

text: It

text: 's

text: truly

text: not

text: the

text: answer

text: At

text: the

text: same

text: time

text: international

text: adoption

text: even

text: though

text: it

text: does

text: n't

text: solve

text: the

text: whole

text: problem

text: it

text: solves

text: a

text: problem

text: for

text: a

text: few

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: can

text: be

text: a

text: brilliant

text: solution

text: to

text: the

text: problem

text: of

text: adults

text: wanting

text: a

text: child

text: in

text: their

text: lives

text: or

text: wanting

text: more

text: children

text: in

text: their

text: lives

text: and

text: the

text: problem

text: of

text: children

text: who

text: want

text: parents

text: in

text: their

text: lives

text: CNN

text: How

text: is

text: it

text: different

text: for

text: a

text: celebrity

text: person

text: seeking

text: an

text: international

text: adoption

text: than

text: for

text: yourself

text: Greene

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: jet

text: in

text: take

text: a

text: child

text: and

text: fly

text: out

text: with

text: a

text: child

text: For

text: an

text: average

text: citizen

text: trying

text: to

text: adopt

text: it

text: takes

text: most

text: of

text: a

text: year

text: First

text: of

text: all

text: you

text: work

text: with

text: a

text: country

text: that

text: already

text: has

text: international

text: adoption

text: regulations

text: in

text: place

text: so

text: you

text: have

text: a

text: bureaucracy

text: dealing

text: with

text: international

text: adoption

text: A

text: big

text: part

text: of

text: that

text: is

text: determining

text: that

text: the

text: child

text: is

text: a

text: true

text: orphan

text: that

text: there

text: is

text: no

text: one

text: who

text: can

text: care

text: for

text: the

text: child

text: And

text: in

text: the

text: case

text: of

text: our

text: older

text: kids

text: adoptions

text: people

text: had

text: to

text: come

text: to

text: court

text: to

text: testify

text: that

text: there

text: was

text: no

text: one

text: to

text: take

text: the

text: children

text: So

text: you

text: do

text: n't

text: run

text: the

text: risk

text: of

text: Oh

text: whoops

text: there

text: 's

text: a

text: grandmother

text: down

text: the

text: street

text: CNN

text: There

text: 's

text: been

text: some

text: chatter

text: today

text: online

text: questioning

text: why

text: a

text: person

text: would

text: n't

text: adopt

text: an

text: orphaned

text: child

text: from

text: their

text: own

text: country

text: Greene

text: Within

text: the

text: adoption

text: world

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: non

text: issue

text: There

text: are

text: children

text: all

text: over

text: the

text: world

text: who

text: need

text: families

text: and

text: some

text: find

text: their

text: children

text: in

text: Philadelphia

text: and

text: some

text: find

text: their

text: children

text: in

text: Bulgaria

text: you

text: know

text: It

text: 's

text: just

text: outsiders

text: who

text: look

text: on

text: and

text: judge

text: disapprovingly

text: but

text: then

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: go

text: on

text: to

text: adopt

text: the

text: neighborhood

text: children

text: right

text: There

text: are

text: many

text: children

text: who

text: need

text: help

text: and

text: anyone

text: who

text: wants

text: to

text: reach

text: out

text: and

text: adopt

text: a

text: child

text: from

text: foster

text: care

text: or

text: from

text: a

text: Russian

text: orphanage

text: should

text: reach

text: out

text: and

text: do

text: it

text: CNN

text: What

text: has

text: the

text: experience

text: been

text: like

text: for

text: your

text: own

text: foster

text: children

text: Greene

text: We

text: 're

text: a

text: white

text: Jewish

text: family

text: in

text: Atlanta

text: but

text: Atlanta

text: is

text: a

text: major

text: city

text: for

text: eastern

text: African

text: immigrants

text: So

text: our

text: children

text: are

text: in

text: touch

text: with

text: the

text: Ethiopian

text: diaspora

text: and

text: they

text: feel

text: very

text: much

text: a

text: part

text: of

text: that

text: Atlanta

text: is

text: full

text: of

text: Ethiopian

text: restaurants

text: markets

text: festivals

text: For

text: a

text: while

text: my

text: kids

text: were

text: playing

text: on

text: weekends

text: with

text: an

text: Ethiopian

text: soccer

text: league

text: I

text: have

text: an

text: Ethiopian

text: baby

text: sitter

text: who

text: speaks

text: to

text: them

text: only

text: in

text: Amharic

text: so

text: they

text: wo

text: n't

text: lose

text: their

text: language

text: and

text: we

text: always

text: have

text: Ethiopian

text: food

text: here

text: Two

text: years

text: ago

text: we

text: went

text: back

text: to

text: Ethiopia

text: with

text: the

text: kids

text: and

text: had

text: a

text: big

text: reunion

text: for

text: one

text: of

text: my

text: sons

text: and

text: his

text: extended

text: family

text: We

text: just

text: consider

text: ourselves

text: sort

text: of

text: part

text: of

text: this

text: amazing

text: bicontinental

text: family

text: CNN

text: The

text: first

text: time

text: you

text: adopted

text: internationally

text: can

text: you

text: tell

text: me

text: what

text: your

text: ethical

text: considerations

text: were

text: and

text: how

text: you

text: worked

text: through

text: that

text: personally

text: Greene

text: Our

text: first

text: adoption

text: was

text: of

text: a

text: boy

text: in

text: rural

text: Bulgaria

text: An

text: incredibly

text: poor

text: orphanage

text: The

text: kids

text: were

text: hungry

text: thirsty

text: no

text: education

text: I

text: first

text: met

text: our

text: son

text: Jesse

text: when

text: he

text: was

text: He

text: was

text: years

text: old

text: and

text: he

text: did

text: not

text: know

text: what

text: his

text: own

text: name

text: was

text: When

text: he

text: first

text: came

text: he

text: was

text: just

text: so

text: anxious

text: about

text: food

text: When

text: he

text: would

text: wake

text: up

text: he

text: was

text: just

text: shaking

text: wondering

text: if

text: there

text: was

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: enough

text: food

text: So

text: I

text: started

text: waking

text: him

text: up

text: with

text: food

text: He

text: had

text: issues

text: with

text: water

text: He

text: was

text: n't

text: sure

text: if

text: there

text: was

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: enough

text: water

text: to

text: drink

text: so

text: I

text: bought

text: him

text: a

text: little

text: canteen

text: so

text: he

text: could

text: wear

text: his

text: water

text: all

text: of

text: the

text: time

text: Do

text: I

text: have

text: ethical

text: issues

text: about

text: taking

text: him

text: out

text: of

text: that

text: orphanage

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: CNN

text: Is

text: there

text: anything

text: else

text: you

text: wanted

text: to

text: add

text: Greene

text: I

text: admire

text: Madonna

text: And

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: understand

text: why

text: everyone

text: attacks

text: Madonna

text: I

text: think

text: that

text: she

text: is

text: in

text: part

text: trying

text: to

text: raise

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: consciousness

text: about

text: the

text: African

text: orphan

text: crisis

text: You

text: know

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: children

text: orphaned

text: by

text: AIDS

text: globally

text: are

text: in

text: sub

text: Saharan

text: Africa

text: You

text: do

text: n't

text: hear

text: world

text: leaders

text: talking

text: about

text: it

text: Where

text: is

text: the

text: global

text: outrage

text: So

text: into

text: the

text: breach

text: steps

text: a

text: celebrity

text: But

text: do

text: n't

text: attack

text: her

text: for

text: it

text: you

text: know

text: Maybe

text: her

text: methods

text: are

text: not

text: what

text: ours

text: would

text: be

text: but

text: how

text: many

text: of

text: us

text: are

text: Madonna

text: But

text: at

text: least

text: she

text: is

text: out

text: there

text: she

text: 's

text: creating

text: a

text: school

text: Obviously

text: she

text: 's

text: fallen

text: in

text: love

text: with

text: the

text: Malawian

text: children

text: to

text: such

text: an

text: extent

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text: wants

text: to

text: make

text: some

text: of

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text: her

text: own

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text: I

text: think

text: that

text: it

text: 's

text: great

text: I

text: just

text: do

text: n't

text: understand

text: why

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: attacking

text: her

text: Let

text: other

text: people

text: step

text: forth

text: and

text: do

text: something

text: At

text: least

text: she

text: 's

text: trying

text: That

text: 's

text: my

text: feeling

question: how many kids does the mom have

answer: five adopted children.

text: five adopted children.

question: who rejects madonna?

answer: Malawi's

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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- Softball, drunken orgies and a prison system run like the mafia. That's what Florida's former prison secretary says he inherited when he took over one of the nation's largest prison systems two years ago.

This house, on prison grounds in Florida, is described as a party house where prison officials held orgies.

In fact, on his first day on the job, James McDonough says he walked into his office -- the same one his predecessor used -- and there was crime scene tape preventing anyone from entering.

"That was an indication we had a problem in the department," McDonough told CNN in an exclusive interview before he stepped down last Thursday.

McDonough revealed a startling list of alleged abuses and crimes going on inside Florida's prisons:

â¢ Top prison officials admitting to kickbacks;

â¢ Guards importing and selling steroids in an effort to give them an edge on the softball field;

â¢ Taxpayer funds to pay for booze and women;

â¢ Guards who punished other guards who threatened to report them.

"Corruption had gone to an extreme," McDonough said, saying it all began at the top. "They seemed to be drunk half the time and had orgies the other half, when they weren't taking money and beating each other up."  Watch a corrupted prison system Â»

He added, "Women were treated like chattel in this department."

McDonough described a bizarre prison culture among those that ran the system -- one that he says seemed obsessed with inter-department softball games and the orgies after games.

"I cannot explain how big an obsession softball had become," he said. "People were promoted on the spot after a softball game at the drunken party to high positions in the department because they were able to hit a softball out of the park a couple times."

"The connection between the softball and the parties and the corruption and the beatings was greatly intertwined."

The parties and orgies were often carried out at a waterfront ranch house built on prison grounds for a former warden with taxpayer dollars, McDonough said. The house was complete with a bar, pool table and hot tub.  See photos of the "party house" Â»

McDonough is a former Army colonel who commanded troops in Vietnam and Africa. He served as Florida's drug czar before taking on the job as the head of Florida's prison system, which oversees 90,000 inmates.

He left his post last Thursday as secretary of Florida's Department of Corrections because, he says, he feels he has cleaned up the corruption. It's time, he said, "to turn this over to law and order people that have made this their life's goal."

A Brooklyn, New York, native, McDonough says he witnessed the way the mafia worked in his youth and it provided him a keen insight into how his prison predecessor, James Crosby, operated.

"It reminded me of the petty mafia I saw on the streets of Brooklyn when I was growing up in the late 1950s, early 1960s -- petty, small-minded, thugish, violent, dangerous, outside the law, and completely intolerable for a society such as ours in the United States of America," he said.

Crosby would later plead guilty to bribery charges in relation to kickbacks from a prison vendor. He's now locked up in a federal prison. He refused CNN's request for an interview for this report.

"He's serving time in a federal prison. I hope he reforms and gets out and prospers," McDonough said.

He added, "When you have a rotten guy at the top, or gal at the top, it can be very invasive, and it's a cancer that needs to be excised."

And getting rid of this "cancer" is exactly what McDonough says he did. McDonough fired 90 top prison officials -- wardens, supervisors, colonels and majors -- claiming they were corrupt or, at the very least, not to be trusted. He demoted 280 others.

Criminal charges were filed against more than 40 others, and most were convicted. In addition to the orgies and other misconduct outside the cell blocks, there were other allegations of prisoners being harmed, McDonough said.

"In some of the pockets of corruption that we found, they [prisoners] were being abused," he said.

Among those arrested were seven officers accused of beating inmates, including five accused of forcing a prisoner to drink toilet water. All have pleaded not guilty.

Tina Hayes, the director of the prison's department initiatives who has worked in the prison system for 28 years, said the atmosphere before McDonough arrived was "a little tense" with workers "always on edge."

She said employees who didn't attend softball games or play on the teams were "isolated" and "pushed aside."

"I used to tell staff day in and day out: Keep your head high; do what's right; you know what morally is right; you've got some ethics; don't bow down to it," Hayes told CNN.

McDonough, she said, brought "standards back into the department."

"People can speak out now without being afraid to say what they need to say."

McDonough says the majority of the prison system's 28,000 employees were honest, hard-working people who weren't corrupt at all. But he says many of the top prison officials weren't and he believes he has weeded out "an organized vein of corruption."

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(CNN)  -- Brazilian star Kaka has rejected a world record transfer move to Premier League Manchester City and decided to stay with AC Milan.

Kaka opted to stay with AC Milan despite the riches on offer.

The 2007 world player of the year was set to earn $750,000 per week with City, who were reported to be willing to pay a staggering $147 million to acquire his services.

The devoutly religious Kaka explained his reasons on the club's television station.

"I believe I have made the right choice.

"To have gone to Manchester City could have been a great project but in the past few days I have prayed a lot to understand what the right team would be and in the end I have decided to remain here.

"I don't want anything else, I just want to be well and be happy in the place where people love me."

Italian prime minister and Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi originally broke the news that the devoted fans of the Rossoneri wanted to hear.

Interviewed on Italian TV's Sky Italia late on Monday night, Berlusconi confirmed that Milan had offered Kaka the chance to "make himself a fortune, but said he has "higher values."

Berlusconi continued: "He is staying with us, there are things which are more important than money: we are happy.

"When I heard he would prefer to stay, that he didn't think he would be missing a great opportunity and he prefers the values of our flag, the values of closeness and friendship, the warmth and the affection that all the fans have shown him in these days, I said 'hooray' and we hugged. Kaka is staying at Milan."

Fans of former European champions Milan had staged a series of protests since City's audacious move for Kaka became public late last week.

They intensified after Kaka played in the 1-0 home win over Fiorentina which improved Milan's Serie A title chances as arch-rivals and league leaders Inter Milan slipped up.

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City, who are being backed by Sheikh Mansour's Abu-Dhabi investment group, finally admitted defeat in a statement on their club Web site www.mfc.co.uk from executive chairman Gary Cook:

"Whilst Manchester City Football Club has an obvious interest in world-class players of the quality of Kaka, we owe it to our fans that such a transfer must work on every level; commercially, financially, in terms of results on the field and within Manchester City's broader community."

Cook and a City delegation returned to Manchester without ever managing to meet 26-year-old Kaka face to face, dealing instead with Milan officials and his father Bosco Leite.

Manager Mark Hughes, who completed the signing of striker Craig Bellamy from West Ham on Monday, will also be hoping to finalize a deal to acquire midfielder Nigel De Jong from Hamburg as he strengthens his squad in the January transfer window.

City, who are struggling in 11th in the Premier League and out of the FA Cup, signed Kaka's Brazilian international teammate Robinho from Real Madrid shortly after their new Abu Dhabi owners took over last summer.

Robinho has proved an immediate success with 12 goals, but City are aware of the need to attract more world class players to their ranks, hence the ulitmately fruitless attempt to sign Kaka.

In a separate development, Robinho moved quickly to deny reports that he had stormed out of City's training camp in Tenerife because they had failed to sign his friend Kaka.

"I had made Manchester City aware that I needed to return to Brazil because of a family matter," he told BBC Sport. "I will return to the club and hope to sort this out as soon as possible."

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"He is one of my good friends and it would have been great to see him at Manchester City -- but it had nothing to do with his decision to stay in Milan.

"I am committed to helping Manchester City become the force the owners assured me they will become."

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answer: Kaka

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answer: Brazilian

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question: How much was he set to earn per week at City?

answer: $750,000

question: What did Kaka turn down?

answer: world record transfer move to Premier League Manchester

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question: who is milan owner?

answer: Silvio Berlusconi

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question: What report did Robinho deny?

answer: that he had stormed out of City's training camp in Tenerife because they had failed to sign his friend Kaka.

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question: Who turned down a big-money transfer to Manchester City?

answer: Brazilian star Kaka

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question: What is the name of the owner of Milan?

answer: Silvio Berlusconi

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Atlanta (CNN) -- Nearly 700 patients and 100 employees at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta have been exposed to tuberculosis after coming in contact with a hospital employee carrying the disease, a hospital spokesman said Thursday.

The Georgia Department of Community Health and the hospital have identified 680 patients who were exposed to tuberculosis between November and February, said hospital spokesman Lance Skelly.

Patients will begin getting tested for tuberculosis next week, Skelly said. To date, no patients or employees have reported symptoms of tuberculosis, he said.

The hospital and the department began notifying people about the exposure this month, after an Emory employee was diagnosed in April with the infectious disease, he said. The employee did not know he had tuberculosis when he came in contact with employees and patients, the hospital said.

The hospital took extra precautions by contacting patients who were in the hospital for 90 days before the day the employee is known to have developed the disease, Skelly said. "That is a major reason the numbers are so much higher."

All hospital employees are screened for the disease and must receive screenings each year, it added. A hospital statement did not say whether the employee had been screened.

About 11 million people in the United States are infected with latent tuberculosis, which is symptom-free and is not contagious.

Of those, 5 to 10 percent go on to develop active tuberculosis, which can be spread to others through the air, such as through coughing or sneezing.  It can be fatal if not properly treated.

Symptoms of tuberculosis include chest pain, a bad cough (possibly with blood), weakness and a fever. While tuberculosis usually impacts the lungs, the kidneys, brain and spine may also be affected.

Both the number and rate of tuberculosis cases has been on the decline since 1993, according to the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The number of reported deaths nationwide dropped from 644 in 2006 to 544 in 2007, the most recent year for which such data is available, the CDC said.

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(CNN)  -- The mother of a woman who gave birth on Monday to octuplets said her daughter already has six children at home and was undergoing fertility treatment.

Dr. Karen Maples is part of the large team of doctors and nurses that helped deliver the octuplets.

The Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday that Angela Suleman said her daughter had the embryos implanted last year, resulting in the eight births.

"They all happened to take," Suleman told the Times. "I looked at those babies. They are so tiny and so beautiful."

The woman declined to have the number of embryos reduced when she discovered she was carrying multiples, the Times reported. The six older siblings range from ages 7 to 2, according to the newspaper.

Suleman said she was concerned about her daughter's homecoming because her husband, a contract worker, is due to return to Iraq.

In the meantime, the mother, who remains unidentified, appealed for privacy while she recovers from giving birth, medical officials said Thursday.

In her written statement delivered by Dr. Karen Maples of the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in California, the woman who delivered eight babies in five minutes said she would soon make public the details of her "miraculous experience."

"We understand that you are all curious about the arrival of the octuplets, and we appreciate your respect for our family's privacy," she said.

"The babies continue to grow strong every day and make good progress. My family and I are ecstatic about all of their arrivals."

"Needless to say, the eighth was a surprise to us all, but a blessing as well," she added.

The six boys and two girls -- ranging in weight from 1 pound, 8 ounces to 3 pounds, 4 ounces -- are doing well following their Caesarean-section delivery at the Bellflower hospital, doctors said. They were born nine weeks premature.

Dr. Mandhir Gupta, a neonatalist, said all but one of the octuplets are now breathing on their own. That baby might be taken off breathing equipment Friday.

Caring for eight premature babies is a challenge. Duties are being shared by a large team of hospital nurses and doctors for the time being. Two nurses have been assigned to each child, and all the babies are receiving fluids, proteins and vitamins intravenously, Gupta said.

"We feed them. ... We change diapers. ... When they cry, we console them," Gupta said. "When the mom comes and touches the babies, you can definitely see their expression on their faces and body. They are very happy."

The babies, who are being referred to by letters of the alphabet, will remain in the hospital for at least seven more weeks.

Baby H made headlines for its surprise appearance during the delivery, which took months of preparation by a team of doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists.  Watch a report on babies' progress Â»

The mother will not be able to hold her babies for another week, Gupta said. They are still fragile, developing intestines, he said.

Doctors initially thought the mother was pregnant with seven fetuses. She was hospitalized seven weeks ago and ordered to bed rest.

During the seven weeks, a team of 46 physicians, nurses and other staff members prepared for the births. When they started the delivery Monday, they were in for a surprise.

"After the seventh baby was born, we were taking a sigh of relief," Maples said.

"It was a surprise of our life when we in fact discovered there was an eighth baby," she said. "We never had an assignment for baby H nurse or baby H doctor. We just had to go on the fly and figure out what to do."

"Baby G nurse stepped up. We handed off the baby to baby G nurse. She then delivered that last baby to the neonatologist of the baby F."

"It was all wonderful because of the teamwork and the training we did before," Maples said.

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SAN BERNARDINO, California (CNN) -- Three-year-old Briant Rodriguez remained in a hospital bed fatigued and malnourished Monday, 15 days after being kidnapped at gunpoint and then dumped on the streets of Mexico.

Liberato Vega, 30, left, and Israel Moreno, 28, are suspects in the kidnapping of 3-year-old Briant Rodriguez.

Police don't know much about what happened to the boy, who was taken after gunmen tied his family and ransacked his California home on May 3.

They don't know why the gunmen broke into the home, why they kidnapped the bubbly 3-year-old or how he ended up wandering the streets of Mexicali with a shaved head, rather than the long hair he had sported before the kidnapping.

But police believe they do know who is responsible.

In a news conference on Monday, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department and FBI identified the two suspect gunmen as Liberato Vega, 30, and Israel Moreno, 28.

The two men, who authorities said were illegal immigrants with criminal records, are believed to have burst into the San Bernardino home, ransacked the house, tied up 3-year-old Briant Rodriguez's family and snatched the child two weeks ago.

The boy was returned to his family Saturday in the border town of Calexico.

"It was a very emotional and unforgettable experience," said San Bernardino County Sheriff's Sgt. Doug Hubbard, who was with the boy's mother when he was returned. "Enough said there -- before I get emotional."

Officials said the boy was still in the hospital Monday and was being treated for malnourishment and fatigue.

"We're very happy that he's alive," San Bernardino County Sheriff Rod Hoops said this weekend. "A 3-year-old goes missing in this country for two weeks -- sometimes it has an unhappy ending.

"This one did not."

Now, police are trying to piece together exactly what may have happened during the 13 days the boy was missing.

Detectives from the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations agents were able to identify the alleged kidnappers based on unspecified physical evidence at the San Bernardino home and interviews with the boy's family and neighbors.

Hubbard said the family has adamantly denied knowing who may be responsible for the kidnapping or having any association with those responsible.

FBI Supervisory Special Agent Don Roberts said it was, however, "likely that this family was the target" of the kidnappers.

"But why, we don't know," Roberts said, adding that the kidnappers had clearly planned the crime.

Officials said they believe Vega and Moreno are the two men they captured on video at a home-improvement store near the Rodriguez home before the crime buying tape like the kind that was used to bind the family.

Hubbard said there are no-bail warrants issued for both men for home invasion robbery and kidnapping and  Roberts said the FBI also obtained federal warrants for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for both men.

"We will leave no stone unturned until these two are returned to San Bernardino to face justice," Roberts said. "We will not take a break until that day happens."

Authorities are hunting for both men, who have criminal records, in Mexico where they were both born. Roberts said both men have previously been deported from the United States, where they were living illegally. Their previous residences are empty, police said.

Vega, who police said they considered to be the primary suspect, has had seven encounters with authorities in San Bernardino, according to court records, including four convictions in 2005 for a variety of charges, including driving under the influence. He also has a dismissed burglary case and two open cases against him for driving under the influence,  providing false information to police and driving without a license.

Police described Vega as a Hispanic male, 5 feet 9 inches weighing 130 pounds.

Moreno was convicted in 2008 for driving under the influence and has another similar case open against him. Police described Moreno as a Hispanic male, 5 feet 6 inches weighing 150 pounds.

Police have said they are also looking for 21-year-old Claudia Acosta, Vega's girlfriend, who may be traveling with him. They aren't sure how she's related to the kidnapping.

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question: What are the names of the subjects in the kidnapping case?

answer: Liberato Vega,

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question: what Boy had been missing since May 3?

answer: Briant Rodriguez

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question: Where are the kidnappers believed to be from

answer: Mexico

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question: Since when has the boy been missing

answer: 15 days

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question: Who was the subject of the kidnapping?

answer: Three-year-old Briant Rodriguez

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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Al-Shabaab, a hard-line Somali rebel group that is on the U.S. government's terror watch list, has threatened to attack neighboring Kenya, according to an online audio recording.

On an Al-Shabaab Web site, men chant in Kiswahili, the national language of Kenya, saying, "We will reach Nairobi. When we arrive, we will hit until we kill." A taped message in Arabic follows, thought to be by Abu Zubeyr, Al-Shabaab's commander in Somalia. The speaker of the message threatens those he calls infidels, throughout the world.

It would not be the first threat by Al-Shabaab toward Kenya. Many analysts say Kenya is vulnerable to attack by the Islamic group, which is trying to overthrow the weak transitional government.

The threat follows heightened tensions between the Kenyan government and Somalis living in Kenya over the past month. Kenya recently rounded up and arrested several hundred Somali immigrants and refugees living in a mostly Somali neighborhood. And earlier this month, Muslim protesters clashed with police after Friday prayers, leading to one death and extensive property damage.

Muslim human-rights groups in Kenya have called for protests in support of cleric Abdulah Ibrahim el-Faisal, whom Kenya declared an unwanted person and deported earlier this month. The Jamaican-born Muslim cleric was previously jailed in Britain for inciting murder and racial hatred. But Kenya's efforts to deport him failed. He was then arrested on return to Kenya, further outraging some Muslim leaders.

Alfred Mutua, Kenya's government spokesman, has since said that el-Faisal has successfully been deported. However, the government has given mixed signals as to whether he has actually left.

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