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You never know how Kanye West's deep emotional reservoir is going to manifest itself. Today he required a break right in the middle of a BBC Radio 1 interview when he choked up and then quietly started to cry while discussing one of his mentors, late fashion professor Louise Wilson. 

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Florida International University has been selected as the only site in Florida to host a first complete edition of William Shakespeare’s plays. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU will display  First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare , a national traveling exhibition of the Shakespeare First Folio, one of the world’s most treasured books. It will go on display next year, marking the 400th anniversary of the bard’s death. “This is a dream come true. I’ve been teaching at FIU for 20 years and have yet to meet students, from elementary school to college, who weren’t pulled in and electrified by Shakespeare,” said James M. Sutton, professor and chairman of the Department of English.

Eric Narvaez, an Army veteran and wounded warrior, said he fought for his country – only to come home to a different kind of war in the United States. “I love this country,’’ he told President Barack Obama on Wednesday. “But I’m facing another war - trying to keep my mother here.’’ After thanking Narvaez for his service, Obama said his plan for immigration reform would allow Narvaez’s mother – and millions more like her – to stay in the United States. “The message I want to send today is that we are not prioritizing people like your mother for enforcement or deportation,’’ he said. “We are prioritizing felons, criminals, gang members – people who are a threat to our communities – not families who have lived here a long time.”

 Senator Ibikunle Amosun CON  today at Ijebu North East and Ijebu East LGA during the peaceful local government APC campaign.

According to several Russian news agencies, the 56-year-old former deputy prime minister was gunned down while walking with a woman near the Kremlin. He is said to have been shot four times by several people who got out of a car. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and during Boris Yeltsin’s time in charge at the Kremlin, Nemtsov made his name as a western orientated free market reformer.

A new rapid test that can diagnose Ebola in as little as 15 minutes could play a major role in shutting down the current outbreak. This week, regulators gave health responders emergency authorization to use the test, which was codeveloped by Corgenix Medical Corp. based on technology originally discovered at Tulane University. 

Students sharing stage forum  with Apple CEO, Tim Cook…

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Attackers in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have hacked to death a US-Bangladeshi blogger whose writings on religion angered Islamist hardliners. Avijit Roy, an atheist who advocated secularism, was attacked as he walked back from a book fair with his wife, who was also hurt in the attack.

Investors have placed nearly $4 billion in orders for a $1 billion Eurobond -- sub-Saharan Africa's first in 2015 -- which Ivory Coast marketed on Tuesday, a government spokesman said. The demand for the bond reflected renewed confidence in French-speaking West Africa's largest economy following years of turmoil as well as its relatively healthy prospects at a time when other countries are struggling with a fall in oil revenue.

After meeting with the education minister, Ibrahim Shekarau on Tuesday, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, says it has shelved its planned strike, billed to begin on Wednesday. Speaking to journalist after another meeting with the house committee on education the same day, president os ASUP , Chibuzor Asomugha said the decision to call off the strike will be taken after the meeting of the union’s national executive congress

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-This week marks the kickoff of a series of thesis exhibitions at Tyler School of Art. The exhibitions are the culmination of the two-year graduate program for 26 of Tyler School of Art's Class of 2015 MFA candidates.

Suicide bombers have struck two bus stations in different parts of northern Nigeria, killing at least 24 people and wounding scores. In the first explosion, a suicide bomber rushed onto a bus in the town of Potiskum before setting off a blast that killed at least 12 people and injured at least 20 others.

President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience attended the mass funeral service at the Gabriel Iworiso-Markson Cultural Centre, Yenagoa for the female victims of a ghastly accident on East-West Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The accident on 14 February claimed 11 people.

It just had to be him. Making his return to England, Luis Suarez scored twice to lead Barcelona to a 2-1 win over 10-man Manchester City in the Champions League, putting the away side in a commanding position ahead of the second leg in Spain in the middle of March. However, the tie likely would have been over if Lionel Messi hadn't missed an injury-time penalty -- or the rebound with the net gaping. Indeed, the rebound was one of the misses of the season from a man who has been crowned football's player of the year four times.

Dean Edwards Smith (February 28, 1931 – February 7, 2015) was an American head coach of men's college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith was called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame. He is best known for his 36-year coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I men's basketball record at that time. 

Living in bigger, denser settlements allowed the inhabitants of ancient cities to be more productive, just as is true for modern urbanites, according to a new study by scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Santa Fe Institute.

Caitlin Ryan, director of the Family Acceptance Project SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY- The long-term benefits of LGBT youth coming out at school may outweigh short-term negative consequences related to bullying according to a new study from San Francisco State University's Family Acceptance Project.

Draw after frustrating draw made the decision for Chicago Fire head coach and technical director Frank Yallop by the end of last season. There were no half-measures to take after a year of dealing with a limiting salary budget situation and watching his players grind through a league record 18 draws in 34 matches. Yallop cleared the decks once the season ended to cobble together the flexibility necessary for the busy winter ahead. He knew he needed to find a way to disrupt the tedious equilibrium so often established and obtain players capable of tilting the balance in the Fire's favor.

The Nigerian government recently launched a National Policy on Cotton, Textile and Garment (CTG) as part of the National Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP) to help revitalize the country’s ailing industry. The government also directed that uniforms of the military and schools must now be purchased from local sources.

Police in the Maldives have dragged the country's former president into a court which had ordered his detention while he is tried over his decision to arrest a top judge three years ago. Mohamed Nasheed, now an opposition leader, fell to the ground after police pushed him in attempts to stop him from speaking to journalists gathered outside the Criminal Court in Male before his first hearing on Monday.

North Korean authorities have banned foreigners from participating in the annual Pyongyang marathon because of concerns over the spread of the Ebola virus, travel agencies say. In October, the country began enforcing strict travel restrictions on incoming tourists including a 21-day quarantine.

We journalists pride ourselves on a willingness to bring you bad news. The more death and destruction, the more words and pictures. If it bleeds, it leads. But it turns out that at heart we are Pollyannas, just like almost everyone else. We can’t help accentuating the positive, according to researchers who have analyzed nearly two million articles in The New York Times as well as millions of books and more than 100 billion tweets worldwide.

The 70th annual Engineering and Science Fair at the University of Florida! Check us out at the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom today and tomorrow at 9AM-3PM! UF Engineers' Week

NEW DELHI:   Swine flu claimed the lives of 21 more people as the toll reached 833 across the country   while the number of persons affected by H1N1 virus breached the 14,000 mark. According to health ministry figures, the total number of persons who have died of the disease till February 22 is 833 while a total of 14,484 persons has been affected by it across the nation. Health ministry data on Sunday had showed that 812 people had died due to the disease while 13,688 people had been affected with the H1N1 virus. Source: timesofindia

ANN ARBOR—Sometimes, science means staying awake for two days straight. But losing sleep is a small sacrifice to make, if you want to learn more about tiny bacteria that sicken half a million Americans each year, kill more than 14,000 of them, and rack up $4.8 billion in health care costs. That's what drove a team of University of Michigan scientists to work around the clock to study the bacterium called Clostridium difficile, or C. difficile, the bane of hospitals and nursing homes. Most patients develop it after taking antibiotics.

ITHACA – Christopher Alan Duenas, 26, of San Diego, pleaded guilty in two incidents where female Cornell University students said an unknown man attacked them. Duenas pleaded guilty on Feb. 18 to two counts each of third degree attempted assault, second degree unlawful imprisonment and criminal obstruction of breathing, according to Cornell.

By Andrew Gilbert Part of the challenge and much of the fun of performing contemporary music is navigating relationships with living composers—as the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players have discovered as they are halfway through their grandly ambitious Project TenFourteen. Project TenFourteen, an unprecedented season-long collaboration between SFCMP and Cal Performances featuring 10 newly commissioned works premiering over the course of four concerts, returns to Hertz Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus Sunday, Feb. 22 for its third installment. Last month’s performance offered premieres of distinctly different pieces by two artists, 36-year-old Polish composer/vocalist Agata Zubel and 37-year-old Chinese composer Du Yun.