RUSSIAN WARNS U.S

Russia warned Britain and America yesterday that they would be in “grave violation of international law” if they carried out air strikes against the Syrian regime without the approval of the United Nations.

Amid growing concern at home and abroad about the legitimacy and wisdom of the UK participating in an

attack on the Assad regime without UN authorisation, the Government’s most senior law officer will be asked to justify the Britain’s participation in strikes at a meeting of the National Security Council tomorrow.

However, there were no signs of Downing Street backing off from its  intention to join America in the use of military force. A Downing Street  source said they still expected action within two weeks while a spokesman for the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, said he was also fully behind a “proportionate” response to President Assad’s use of chemical weapons.
U.S Naval forces are repositioned in the Mediterranean, this leaves the option of an armed strike ready and waiting for the word from Washington. Obama met with advisors on Saturday to go over the feasible options following reports of the alleged chemical attack in Syria.
Russia suggests it was the Syrian rebels who may have carried out the attack, but assigning blame too soon would be a "tragic mistake.

MILEY CYRUS TWERKING

Former Hannah Montana sweetheart Miley Cyrus's gyrating bikini-clad performance at last night's MTV VMA awards left watching celebrities open-mouthed and set Twitter ablaze.

Cyrus, the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, the wholesome country and western singer with the "Achy Breaky Heart", has been raising eyebrows for the last four years as she moves further and further away from the teenage Disney channel character that set her on the way to becoming a $150m star aged just twenty years.

Her hyper-sexualised set, which included rubbing her butt into Robin Thicke's crotch and getting extremely personal with an oversized foam finger, drew criticism from feminists for degrading her sex and from some pundits for "picking the pocket of black culture".

Bursting out of an oversized teddy bear, Cyrus started off in a strapless one-piece leotard before stripping down to a flesh-coloured latex bikini and "twerking" her tiny frame all over the stage.

Twerking is nothing new. The provocative dance became part of hip-hop culture in the 90s when it was adopted by the New Orleans bounce music scene before being made popular by the strip clubs of Houston and Atlanta.

It has its roots in west Africa and was also popular in the Jamaican dancehalls before making it to the US.

Typically, women find ever more frenetic and acrobatic ways of "presenting" their bums to their male dance partners.

It has been claimed as an expression of women having power over their sexuality. This feels harder to swallow when it's a large part of the uber-masculine club scenes in Jamaica, west Africa and in some forms of US hip-hop.

Some of the criticism of Cyrus is typically Madonna-whore, with critics gleefully denouncing her for crossing the divide while secretly revelling in the fantasy that all "good girls" have a "slutty side" aching to get out.

EMINEM REVEALS NEW TRACK "SURVIVAL"

Eminem has unveiled a new song the track features in a trailer for the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts.
Survival is taken from Eminem's forthcoming eighth studio album, which hasn't yet been officially named. The follow-up to 2010's Recovery is expected to be released before the end of this year.

 

Eminem, 40, will headline next week's Reading and Leeds Festivals, which takes place between 23-25 August.

The rapper's DJ, alchemist  says that was Eminem "getting back on his feet" with his last two albums and that his next release will see the rapper return to form.
"I think [it will be] what you would expect, especially after the last go-round," he said. "He was just getting his feet back on Relapse and then Recovery just came with the smash hits and everything and I think now - he's Eminem."

According to Shady Records president Paul Rosenberg, Eminem is "far into the process" of recording his new album.
"He's been working on it for some time," said Rosenberg when talking to billboard earlier this year.
Both Kendrick Lamar and Big Sean are rumored to appear on Eminem's next album.

KENYAN EATS HOUSEMATE HEART

Annapolis - Alexander Kinyua, a Kenyan man living in the United States, has pleaded guilty in a US court after being charged for killing his Ghanaian housemate and eating his heart and brain.

 Reports shows that Kinyua on Monday told a court in Maryland that he killed his friend Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie with an axe, dismembered his body, ate the heart, hid the head and hands in his home and placed the remaining body parts in a trash bin in a nearby church parking lot.

Judge Stephen Waldron in his ruling found the former mechanical engineering student not criminally responsible for the act due to mental illness, and committed him to a mental health facility.

MEET THE EIGHT YEAR OLD GIRL WHO NEVER AGES

Gabby Williams has the facial features and skin of a newborn, and she is just as dependent. Her mother feeds, diapers and cradles her tiny frame as she did the day she was born.

The little girl from Billings, Mont., is 8 years old, but weighs only 11 pounds. Gabby has a mysterious condition, shared by only a handful of others in the world, that slows her rate of aging.

 
Meanwhile, medical researcher Richard F. Walker, who has been trying to find the genetic off-switch to stop the aging process, has been studying Gabby from last two years along with two other people who have striking similarities.
Walker explained that physiological change, or what he calls 'developmental inertia', is essential for human growth as humans never develop without that process.
The doctor said if they could identify the gene and then at young adulthood they could silence the expression of developmental inertia, they will be able to achieve biological immortality .

Katie Couric has apologised for hurting Kim Kardashian's feelings after questioning her family's massive fame in a recent interview.

The 56-year-old journalist released a statement following the reality star's furious Instagram post accusing Katie of being a 'fake media friend.'

'I've met Kim before and I think she's a really sweet person,' the TV presenter told E news.

Katie added, “I was responding to a reporter’s question, and explaining how I’m intrigued by the public’s fascination with her family. I didn’t mean to hurt her feelings. The gift is genuine, and I’m happy for Kim and Kanye.”

The offending comments were made by the former Today Show anchor in an article published Wednesday.

KIM KARDASHIAN BLASTS KATIE COURIC

  Kim kardashian blasts katie couric's gift to north west saying she hates fake media friends. The katie

  show host sent what looks to be pajamas for the little one, born in June. "Dear Kim and Kanye,   Congratulations on the birth of your baby girl!" the card read. "And may I humbly suggest you continue the K tradition."

Kardashian's outburst may have something to do with Couric's recent comments about the reality TV family. In mid-August, the host was quoted as saying she didn't understand why the Kardashians were famous

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celebrities.models: KHLOE AND LAMAR ALLEGED MISTRESS COMES FORWARD: Are Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom in trouble? Attorney Polina Polonsky claims they are, telling Radar Online that she's the wom...

KHLOE AND LAMAR ALLEGED MISTRESS COMES FORWARD

Are Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom in trouble? Attorney Polina Polonsky claims they are, telling Radar Online that she's the woman Lamar cheated on Khloe with this summer.
Polonsky says she met Lamar the night of Kim Kardashian's baby shower, June 2, and the two carried on a six-week affair behind Khloe's back.

Khloe Kardashian Odom has been denying for months that her marriage is in trouble, but a woman who claims she had an affair with Lamar as recently as June says he acted completely available and made it clear that he didn’t want to be with Khloe anymore.
“I was under the impression that he had left Khloe … he acted completely available and we definitely had a mutual attraction,” Polina Polonsy said. “After we had sex, Lamar stayed the night with me; the next day we went back to the Roosevelt. I stayed there with him for the next couple of nights.”

Polonsky also alleges that Khloe confronted her in mid-July at the Vagabond Inn, screaming outside Polonsky's room with Lamar calling people to come and get her.
The attorney further claims that she wants her story to be made public because Khloe has investigated her loved ones and has personally tried to attack Polonsky.
A family insider tells Radar that Khloe doesn't want to believe Lamar cheated, but in her heart she knows. "It's really, really sad, because she loves him so much," says the source.

So far, Khloe is mum about the whole thing on Twitter, though she did post the above photo two weeks ago with the caption, "My Lam."
For his part, Lamar has not overtly addressed these claims, but he wrote on July 12, "Before her there never was and without her will never be. Wifey is real," which sounds to us like a jab at the rumors.