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Rihanna

"Rehab" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna (pictured) for her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007). Def Jam Recordings serviced the song to contemporary hit radio in the United States on October 6, 2008, as the eighth and final single from the album, and released it in Britain as a CD single on December 8. Development of "Rehab" began while Rihanna was accompanying Timbaland on Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveShow tour in 2007. Timberlake wrote the song in collaboration with its producers, Hannon Lane and Timbaland, and provided additional vocals. It is a mid-paced R&B song with an emotional, melancholy chorus; the lyrics are about the protagonist's painful memories of her former lover, who is portrayed metaphorically as a disease. Critics were divided on the song's production and composition, some comparing the structure to that of Timberlake's 2007 single "What Goes Around... Comes Around". The accompanying music video, directed by Anthony Mandler, was shot in Vasquez Rocks Park near Los Angeles, and won the Urban Music Award for Best Music Video. (Full article...)

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Alejandro G. Iñárritu

A bombing in Ankara, Turkey, kills at least twenty-eight people and injures more than sixty others.
The Revenant wins five awards, including Best Film and Best Director (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, pictured), at the British Academy Film Awards.
Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill jointly call for an end to persecution of Christians in the Middle East and to wars in the region.
Scientists using the LIGO detector announce the first direct observation of gravitational waves.
Eleven people are killed in a head-on collision between two passenger trains near Bad Aibling, Germany.

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- European migrant crisis
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February 20

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1816 – Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa The Barber of Seville was hissed by the audience during its debut at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
1872 – New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art (pictured), today the largest art museum in the United States with a collection of over two million works of art, opened.
1959 – The Canadian government under Prime Minister John Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft program amid much political debate.
1988 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
2009 – The Tamil Tigers attempted to crash two aircraft packed with C-4 in suicide attacks on Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shot down before they reached their targets.

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The lesser sand plover (Charadrius mongolus) is a small wader in the plover family of birds. This highly migratory species feeds on insects, crustaceans and annelid worms.

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