How come Angelina Jolie can travel the world, picking up stray babies at every layover while Madonna, who has tried twice to give a seemingly needy Third World kid an obscene change of circumstance, can’t get a break?

People magazine is running an interview with the father of the most recent Malawian child (this time, a girl) to whom Madonna took a shine. Dad says he doesn’t want his daughter (who has lived in an orphanage all four years of her life) adopted, and the Malawian courts have put the cabosh on Madge’s Out of Africa ambitions until her appeal hearing.

Still, like an episode straight from Geraldo, the kid’s father appears out of nowhere, says he’s never met his daughter (paternity confirmation cloudy) and wants her raised in the Malawian culture. His argument, once thoroughly translated, will surely boil down to “B**** better have my money.”

Halle Berry, the world’s hottest mommy, has been up to more than hourly feedings. Since her daughter Nahla was born last June, Berry has managed to squeeze in a trip to Hawaii. What’s up on the Big Island? A commercial shoot for her soon-to-be-released fragrance, according to People.com. As with her offspring, whose name was not chosen until she made her debut, the fragrance remains unnamed.

Check her looking beautiful in our Behind-the-Scenes cover video:

The model girlfriend of Neptunes producer Pharrell Williams is in a family way. The two met earlier this year in Miami through mutual friends. Word is the stork could arrive soon — “She is very pregnant,” a source tells the New York Post.

OK, this came from The Enquirer, but it’s too good not to share.

Seems the Jolie-Pitt kids are scrapping over which of them is the Alpha shortie – and l’il sis Zahara is winning. Though at three, she’s not the oldest, she is, apparently, the boss, prone to ordering the rest of the ankle biters around. Zahara, who is from Ethiopia bests Thai-born Maddox and Vietnamese-born Pax and is prone to kicking little sister Shiloh out of her bed. So in this mini-United Nations, Mother Africa rules. What!? I’m just saying…

Bossip.com reports on the bonds of trust between newlyweds Beyonce and Jay-Z. Actually, just go ahead and make that treasury bonds.   The pre-nup between these two is staggering, with Beyonce reportedly getting $10 million if the marriage ends after two years, and $1 million each year she stays married, up to 15 years. B also gets access to their private jet and a fleet of cars. To juice the deal even further, Jay has added a Santa clause, providing an additional $5 million for each child she bears for him, which could be sooner rather than later, if the rumors of impending pitter-patter are to be believed.

Though still the disputed “wife” of the late James Brown, Tomie Raye Hynie is showing hers. Hynie has been after the Brown estate, if not as his wife, then certainly as the baby mama of six-year-old Godfather II. If the executor knows what’s good for that child, there will be some insistence on a trust fund that cannot be touched until he turns 21. Papa’s brand new bag, indeed.

Uh-oh. Now that Halle Berry has wrapped her in utero production, she’s set to start on another project — one that sounds a little bit, well, off color.

Variety reports that Berry is set to star and produce “Frankie and Alice,” a psychological drama that tells the tale of a young woman struggling with multiple personality disorder. The personalities battling it out? The character’s authentic self, and “a racist Caucasian alter-personality that preys on her mind.”

Project is being produced by Toronto-based Access Motion Pictures, who also brought us “Phantom Punch,” the Sonny Liston bio-pic directed by Robert Townsend and starring Ving Rhames.

Good to know that two-hundred fifteen years after their pro-African legislation, Canada is still down with the people — even if the people can’t quite nail down their identity.

Newborns all over Hollywood are commanding sums higher than the GDP of some small countries for fresh-from-the-oven photos. Not surprisingly, beefs and bidding wars are breaking out all over the place. Word from Page Six is that Diddy’s got beef with People magazine because they gave him and his twin bambinas back of the book treatment and what is rumored to be chump change for the photo-op. His former boo, J. Lo, on the other hand, was paid a whopping $6 million for her and Marc Anthony’s twins, given a cover and a six-page spread inside. I agree that six pages was waaaaay too much — baby pics, like hair brushes, should be shared sparingly.Now, let’s see if Essence bites for the $2M Mediatakeout reports Tameka Foster is asking for pictures of Usher Raymond V…