Rihanna: Singer & Fashion Icon Turns 27 – Happy Birthday

It was only fitting that the fashion icon and singer celebrated her 27th birthday just one day after New York Fashion Week ended. In honor of our beloved bad gal, we rounded up some of our favorite moments of the one and only Riri!

Rihanna’s Birthday: Singer & Fashion Icon Turns 27 – Happy Birthday

From her rumored romance with Leonardo DiCaprio to her new song, “FourFiveSeconds” with Paul McCartney and Kanye West, Riri has made her mark on practically everyone this year!

Fortunately, she even made a return to Instagram to reconnect with her 15 million followers!

And, this is just the beginning, as the singer plans to release her eighth studio album, R8, in 2015

As Riri worked on her highly anticipated album this year, she also continued to immerse herself even more in the fashion industry!

Following her Style Icon Award at the2014 CFDA awards, the songstress added another title to her resume in 2015: global ambassador for PUMA!

She will also put her stylish eye and design expertise to use as the creative director for PUMA’s women’s training category. Go Riri! Equally, we love how the Barbados native has also shown her support for smaller labels too.

Indeed, it seems that everyone wants a piece of Rihanna including Leo DiCaprio! The rumored pair was reportedly hooking up for months, but the jury is out on whether the “We Found Love” singer and the actor will actually settle down.

Regardless of Riri’s dating life, the singers seems to be very focused on her music instead of men. As we previously reported, RiRi is so over dating fellow recording artists like Drake and Chris Brown.

Although Riri isn’t exactly focusing on her future husband, we can already tell she’ll be an amazing mother one day! This past year, the star gave us a preview of her maternal instincts while playing with it-babies, Blue Ivy and North West. What we would give to go back in time so we could be baby sat by the coolest bad gal ever!

Modi govt does not want me to continue as Nalanda University chancellor: Amartya Sen

NEW DELHI: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has withdrawn his candidature for a second term as Nalanda University chancellor, saying the Narendra Modi government does not want him to continue in the chair.

Sen, who has long been a critic of Modi, in a letter to the Governing Board of the University blamed the absence of government's approval for delay in nod from the Visitor, President Pranab Mukherjee, to his name even though the recommendation was sent to him over a month back.

"Non-action (by government) is a time-wasting way of reversing a board decision, when the government has, in principle, the power to act or not act...It is hard for me not to conclude that the government wants me to cease being the chancellor of Nalanda University after July, and technically, it has the power to do so.

"This delay, as well as the uncertainty involved, is leading, in effect, to a decisional gap, which is not helpful to Nalanda University's governance and its academic progress.

"I have, therefore, decided that in the best interest of Nalanda University, I should exclude myself from being considered for continuing as chancellor beyond this July, despite the unanimous recommendation and urging of the governing board for me to continue," he has written.

It is clear that Mukherjee has been unable to provide his assent to the Board's unanimous choice in the absence of government's approval, he said.

The Visitor has always taken a "deep personal interest" in the speedy progress of the work of Nalanda University, and given that, they have to assume that something makes it difficult -- or impossible -- for him to act with speed in this matter, he said.

The Board had made the recommendation in its last meeting on January 13-14.

The Bharat Ratna also rued that academic governance in India remains "so deeply vulnerable to the opinions of the ruling government".

"Even though the Nalanda University Act, passed by Parliament, did not, I believe, envisage political interference in academic matters, it is formally the case -- given the legal provisions (some of them surviving from colonial days) -- that the government can turn an academic issue into a matter of political dispensation if it feels unrestrained about interfering," he said.

PTI

Three-boobed woman quashes hoax claims

London:Jasmine Tridevil, who gained fame after claiming that she has three-boobs, has quashed claims that her bizarre surgical enhancement was merely ahoax.

Some people suggested that her third breast was just a wearable prosthetic and several news outlets also suggested that she had even reported a "three breast prosthesis" stolen when her bags went missing at Tampa Airport in Florida, in 2014, the Daily Express reported.

The 21-year-old from Florida, who claims that she went through with the peculiar procedure to make herself feel unattractive towards men, said that she knows her breasts are real and she doesn't care what anybody thinks.

Tridevil added that getting a third breast was not always her plan as she just had the idea two years ago. People always have something to say they will criticise it or will love it and ask for a picture.

She added that if she goes to a park, where there are children, parents will give her dirty looks, but if she goed to a bar it seems like everybody loves it.

Tridevil, who claims the surgery cost 12,000 pounds and took around an hour-and-a-half to complete, said that a lot of surgeons thought she was prank calling them but she was serious they just did not take her seriously, with one asking her to check herself into a mental hospital.

Eventually, she finally found a doctor who would perform the enhancement surgery, but only if she signed non-disclosure agreement meaning she can never reveal his identity.

She has had numerous calls to categorically prove that her three breasts are real, but as of yet she has refused every offer because she could never consider doing a topless shoot, which is against the way she was raised. 

(ANI)

It's official! Having sex just as effective as gyming

Washington: A new study has found that having sex is similar toexercising, as it burns an average of 4.2 calories a minute in men and 3.1 calories a minute in women.

For the study, sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson observed 21 youngheterosexual couples having sex and discovered that heart rates reached as high as 180 beats per minute, Live Science reported.

Participants in the study were asked to don an armband, called SenseWear , that would help researchers keep an eye on their energy expenditures while they had sex.

Before being sent home to have sex at least four times in a month, each person was required to do a 30-minute moderate-intensity workout on the treadmill to provide a baseline measure of their calorie expenditure during exertion.

The findings showed that men, on average, spent 101 calories while having sex, as compared to 276 calories on the treadmill.

Also, women spent an average of 69 calories during a sex session, compared to an average of 213calories on the treadmill.

According to researchers, the results of the study suggest that sexual activity may potentially be considered, at times, as a significant exercise.

The study was published online in the journal PLOS ONE. 

(ANI)

Women's greatest regrets revealed

London: A recent poll has revealed that maximum number of women regret of not performing well in the school, not losing weight on diet and for choosing a wrong career path.

The polling conducted by Diet Coke for their 'Regret Nothing Campaign' has showed that women even regret of not choosing a right property and even on spending night with someone they shouldn't have, the Mirror reported.

The regrets like not being spontaneous, or being impulsive and not being a good daughter or a friend hampers women's lives and makes them regret on such issues.

Around 1,000 women who were surveyed regret that they didn't travel before starting a family, and even for not having children, or being a better mum.

Women even have regrets in their lives such as texting someone they shouldn't after a night out, or for not having a dream wedding, and even sometimes of having an affair, or settling down, and to focus much on their career.

A spokesperson of Diet Coke said that the findings show that women are harbouring their regretsand not living life in present, and with this they gave a message to inspire women to act on their impulses to create positive experiences, adventures and opportunities for success.