Soca All Stars: News Cheat Sheet - 17/03/2014

Soca artist Farmer Nappy will perform live in Bermuda at the end of the month for D'General's annual Return Fete. The 5th annual party is something that Jason Sukdeo, also known as DJ D'General, has been organizing for the past couple of years after returning from Carnival in Trinidad.

It's Carnival time in Trinidad & Tobago. It's that time of year when folks anticipating the self-restraints of the Lenten period, have one last celebration before they tuck excess away for six weeks. This dual-island nation is noted for its festive Carnival, which includes parades, concerts, parties and elaborate costumes.

Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade may have gotten engaged a few months ago, but they're still celebrating their impending nuptials. The soon-to-be husband and wife hosted an engagement bash at Pearl at Nikki Beach in Miami Saturday night, with an after-hours party with family and friends.

The Pentagon announced that U.S. Navy SEALs have seized an oil tanker carrying crude illicitly obtained from a rebel-held port in Libya. The Defense Department said Monday no one was hurt in the boarding of the "stateless vessel seized earlier this month by three armed Libyans."

Last updated at 10:16 Former England international Danny Mills believes it might be a decade before Manchester United win the Premier League title again. The current champions suffered a 3-0 defeat by Liverpool on Sunday and sit seventh in the table, 18 points behind leaders Chelsea.

Convicted Mafia boss Domenico Rancadore will not be extradited back to Italy, Westminster Magistrates' Court has ruled. District judge Howard Riddle said a recent decision of the Administrative Court, which binds lower courts in England, had led to his decision. Rancadore will be bailed while an appeal takes place, the judge ruled.

The Hold On, We're Going Home rapper - real name Aubrey Drake Graham - has reportedly told his beau he'll only make their relationship official if she agrees to cut all ties with the 24-year-old singer. A source told the Daily Star newspaper: "Rihanna and Drake are just having fun at the moment.

A German engineering company has programmed a dangling robot arm to learn movements and actions in the same way human babies do. The arm, which was designed to be as dexterous as an elephant's trunk, can be taught to reproduce certain positions on command through a process known as "goal babbling," in which the robot remembers small changes in the pressure of its pneumatic "muscles."

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Urmila Sharma from northern India went into labor on Wednesday (March 12) morning and gave birth to a baby with two heads. "Yes this report is perfectly true that we have delivered a female baby having two heads," Dr. Ashish Sehgal, the CEO of Cygnus JK Hindu Hospital, told ABCNews.com in an email.

There have been fresh claims that Michael Rockefeller, scion of one of America's wealthiest families, was devoured by cannibals in New Guinea. A new book, Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, by Carl Hoffman, posits fresh theories about the Harvard graduate's mysterious disappearance.

Chris Brown will stay in jail until April 23 ... he was SHUT DOWN in court Monday afternoon in his bid to win release. Chris was arrested after getting booted from rehab Friday. The judge had ordered him to stay in rehab while he decided whether Brown violated his probation in the Rihanna case.