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American Vogue , you tease. When we learned back in April that the fashion magazine to end all fashion magazines might feature Katy Perry on its hallowed cover, we practically lit fireworks in her honor. Vogue debuted Katy's July cover on their website today... and little else. The mag writes that the photo was shot by none other than Vogue fave Annie Leibovitz , and provided a teeny tease on the accompanying article, which we can't read until next Tuesday: Leaving pop novelty and broken hearts behind her, Katy Perry has grown into her formidable talent. Sounds juicy. Katy's Rodarte-outfitted cover certainly shows a leap in maturity of sorts, as she's previously been featured on the brand's more junior Teen Vogue . Showcasing a performer follows magazines' recent trend of featuring non-models on their glossiest page. Though the question remains: Do singers sell well on newsstands? Congratulations, Katy! Better whip out that Dolce & Gabbana crown ...

  Who is Manuel Pellegrini? A defender, Pellegrini spent his entire playing career at Universidad Chile, making more than 450 appearances Retired in 1986 and took his first managerial role the following year at Palestino Has taken charge of 10 teams in total including Villarreal (2004-09), Real Madrid (2009-10) and Malaga Won league titles in Ecuador and Argentina and the Intertoto Cup with Villarreal in 2004

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 06/13/2013 05:04 PM EDT on LiveScience Ladies, here's one more thing you can blame on men: menopause. At least, that's according to a new theory. Women go through menopause because men have consistently preferred younger women in recent evolutionary history, according to a study published today (June 13) in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.Thus, menopause is not evolutionarily advantageous and may be the result of a series of random, harmful mutations that accumulated in women but weren't acted on by evolution because the women had already reproduced by the time the mutations affected them. "Our first assumption is that mating in humans is not random with respect to age, which means men of all ages prefer to mate with younger women," said study co-author Rama Singh, an evolutionary biologist at McMaster University in Canada. "If mating is with younger women, any deleterious mutations which affe...

Hafiz Oyetoro An interesting debate has been raging on in the communication and advertising sub-sectors in the last couple of weeks. It was stirred by the sudden and dramatic switch of camps by artiste Hafeez Oyetoro, alias Saka, from Etisalat to MTN .  This   controversy is similar to the occasional hullabaloo that always accompanied  the defecting of a notable Nigerian  political figure from one   political party to another.  ‘Saka’ is a popular character that was specially created to market Etisalat by its ad agency, and was highly successful in that regard. But quite suddenly, on the heels of the Nigerian Communications Commission’s   Mobile Number Portability campaign recently, MTN cleverly got  him to “port go” and thus he  deserted  Etisalat in a manner that seems to have left a sour taste in the mouths of not just some people in the advertising world but also many observers.

Director-General of the SSS, Ekpeyong Ita Investigations into the activities of the co-owner of Amigo Supermarket, Mustapha Fawaz, and three other Lebanese – Abdalah Tahini, Talal Rouda and Khosai Nouridine – arrested in connection with the armoury and Hezbollah terror cell in Bompai, Kano State, have taken an international dimension, according to the State Security Service. Also, preliminary investigations have established a more serious case of terrorism against the Lebanese suspects. These revelations emerged in a counter-affidavit filed by the SSS to oppose a suit before an Abuja Federal High Court, in which the Lebanese are challenging their arrest and detention. The Lebanese joined the SSS, the Inspector-General of Police and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice as defendants in the suit in which they demanded N50bn compensation, as well as an order restraining the defendants from extraditing them without following due process.

The plane and the onlookers. A scrap plane formerly owned by the late Apostle Gabriel Oduyemi of Bethel Ministries, Ajah, Lagos, caused panic in the city on Thursday as rumour spread that another aircraft had crashed in Lagos. It was learnt that the plane, which was recently released to Capt Matthew Ekeinde, husband of Nollywood star, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, was being dragged to Badagry area of the state before its tyre burst. The incident forced the new owner to dump the plane in a nearby filling station.