Current Events and Latest News Grammy Girl Rihanna: 'Barbados, I love you! We got one'

The 19-year-old chart-topping R&B songstress became the first Barbadian to win a Grammy Award when she won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for her popular hit Umbrella featuring Jay-Z, on Sunday night at the 50th Grammy Awards ceremony. [via The Nation Newspaper]

Russian bomber buzzes U.S. aircraft carrier

"One of them twice flew about 2,000 feet over the deck of the USS Nimitz Saturday while another flew about 50 miles away, officials said. Two others were at least 100 miles away, the military reported. U.S. defense officials said four F/A-18A fighter jets from the Nimitz were in the air. The Russians and the U.S. carrier did not exchange verbal communications." [via CNN.com]

Deadline looms in Ukraine gas row

"Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is in Moscow to try to persuade Russia not to cut gas supplies to his country in a dispute over an unpaid bill." [via BBC NEWS]

Danish cartoons 'plotters' held

Danish police have arrested three people suspected of planning to attack a cartoonist who drew caricatures satirising the Prophet Muhammad. [via BBC NEWS]

Labels: aircraft carrier, Barbados, bombers, cartoon, Danish, gas, Muslim, Rihanna, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

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And In Other News... Putin's Russia Stakes Its Ground

“A stronger Russia now regrets such conciliatory policies because they have left the country feeling encircled,” writes Russia analyst Ivan Eland. As Dmitri K. Simes, head of the Nixon Center, puts it in the new issue of Foreign Affairs: “Washington's crucial error lay in its propensity to treat post-Soviet Russia as a defeated enemy.” [via Council on Foreign Relations]

What ever happened to free cell-phone games?

"The cell-phone game is one of the great guilty pleasures of the modern age. Why bother "thinking" or "socializing" during dead spots in your day when you can watch a four-pixel snake eat dots?" [via Slate Magazine]

Labels: cell-phone, politics, Putin, Russia

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