Madonna ‘ecstatic’ as adoption approved

MADONNA said she was “ecstatic” after her controversial bid to adopt a second child from Malawi was approved yesterday.

The pop star appealed after a lower court rejected her application to adopt Chifundo “Mercy” James, a four-year-old girl, in April.

The country’s highest court announced its decision to allow the adoption, saying that the lower court had failed to take modern realities into account.