Madonna welcomed a tiny African boy she wants to adopt into her UK home today.

The Malawian baby Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, are trying to adopt arrived in Britain today on an overnight flight from Johannesburg.

Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie have jetted out of Malawi after gaining preliminary custody of a one-year-old boy they want to adopt in an apparently streamlined procedure that sparked criticism from a child protection organisation.