Friday,  September 7, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 052 • 53 of 66 •  Other Editions

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holding hands in the delivery room.
• And Elle Cynthia Jordan was born.
• "She looks just like you! She looks just like you!" Emily shouted, running from the delivery room to introduce their newborn to Mike.
• Reutzel is recovering well. She even says she'd consider doing it again.
• "When I watch both of them hold that baby and look into her face, it's like everything I could have imagined wanting for them -- better than I could have imagined," she says, her eyes filling with tears.
• "This is what it was all about for me."
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One Direction barge in on Rihanna's party at VMAs
CHRIS TALBOTT,AP Music Writer

• There may have been no signature moment at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, but there was a signature sound: the screams of teenage girls wild about One Direction.
• It stopped just short of a British invasion, but the hunky teens in the boy band won three awards on Thursday night's show and barged in on Rihanna's party.
• Rihanna kicked off things with a spicy performance to open Thursday night's show, then ended it by taking the show's top honor, video of the year, for her steamy hit "We Found Love."
• "Doesn't my girl Rihanna look sexy tonight?" Katy Perry asked the crowd after the performance.

• And the night's lead nominee did, showing up in a pixie cut and a figure-hugging, elegant scoop-backed white dress before changing into a flowing red outfit for her medley of new single "Cockiness (I Love It)" with rapper A$AP Rocky and "We Found Love." She brushed imaginary dust from her shoulder as she walked to the stage to thank fans and her creative team.
• The camera returned to the pop star often -- except when it was on One Direction, which provided the night's most screamed-over performance. The band won best pop video, best new artist and most share-worthy video.
• "We've grown up watching this show and to even be here is an honor," Niall Horan said from the stage.
• The quintet, put together by Simon Cowell after "The X Factor" auditions and the first British act to debut atop the Billboard 200 album chart, seemed stunned as fans screamed upon announcement of their win.
• The group performed later, rising to a stairwell surrounded by screaming, reach

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