The Oslo concert honors each year’s Nobel Peace laureates, which for 2006 are Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh and the Grameen Bank he founded to help people rise above poverty with small loans to start businesses. The concerts are always held Dec. 11, the day after the year’s Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony. This year’s concert will be hosted by Sharon Stone and Anjelica Huston. Islam, who changed his name when he converted to Islam in the late 1970s, will join performers such as Lionel Richie, Rihanna, British pop band Simply Red, Wynonna, Renee Fleming and Paulina Rubio.

Rihanna has been confirmed for this year’s Jingle Ball concert presented by Z100, the station announced Monday. Other scheduled performers include JoJo and Evanescence, Nelly Furtado, Nick Lachey, among others. The show will be held at 7:30 p.m. December. 15 at Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden. Tickets will be sold exclusively to “ZVIP” members starting at 4 p.m. Nov. 6 via Ticketmaster with a four-ticket limit per order. To become a ZVIP member, visit z100.com. -APP.com

What better time to talk about celebrity nightmares than on Halloween? I interviewed So, What Did You Dream Last Night? author Lauri Loewenberg, who has analyzed the dreams of many famous Hollywood folks, and she spills their nightmare secrets. The most memorable celebrity interaction was with Rihanna. She had a nightmare about watching a plane crash into a building and pieces of it landing on her brother. Naturally, she had no idea why she had this dream and worried it might be telling her something bad was going to happen to her brother.

Snoop Dogg and Rihanna are the latest names to sign up for the MTV Europe Music Awards. They will join the likes of Muse, The Killers and host Justin Timberlake on stage at the glitzy bash in Copenhangen on November 2 at 8pm.

In a quick date with the press at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Rihanna – 18 and already one of the world’s most watched entertainers – laid out her plans for a European tour with the Pussycat Dolls. Next album? Not started yet, but it’ll be “fun and sassy”. Influences? Reggae and R&B. Definition of success? Achieving your own goals and being happy with what you’ve done. Life, she said, “is not a destination but a journey”.

A growing number of Indian teens are tuning in to raunchy English songs where men are portrayed as “sex-driven studs” and women as “sex objects”.

While parents in the West do not allow their children to listen to lyrics with sexual overtones or violent wordings that glamorise crime, Indian parents, who usually do not follow the lyrics, seem blissfully unaware of the effect it can have on their kids.

A recent study published in the August issue of Pedriatics, a prestigious medical journal, suggests x-rated lyrics may push kids into early sex. And several other studies have proved beyond doubt that violent lyrics promote crime.

Sameera Rao, a Class 7 student of DPS, Noida, likes Rihanna. Her songs are mushy with sexual overtones and a hit with even primary school girls.

I think this is a little over-rated. Rihanna does not sing of sexual music, A Girl Like Me, is not a caution CD. It’s for teens and adults, people need to learn how to just get over thier boredom.

IF you missed out on tickets for The Pussycat Dolls and Rihanna’s sold-out tour at the end of this year then don’t worry – I can exclusively reveal that the girls are coming back to the UK. The 2 hot acts will be returning in January and February for gigs in Cardiff, London, Nottingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle.

Jay-Z will be accompanied by the two most important women in his life when he arrives in South Africa today as part of his world tour. Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, is bringing his fianc?e, Beyonc? and his mother Gloria Carter with him. Organisers, have confirmed that they expect a huge turnout at his concert – in which he shares the billing with Caribbean hottie Rihanna in the Bellville Velodrome tomorrow night.

While Rihanna was promoting Barbados on one of the United States’ radio stations, 95.5 The Beat, based in Atlanta, Georgia, its marketing department was motivated to choose the island as destination for its annual “Party Plane To Paradise” promotion. “One of our premier artistes on 95.5 The Beat FM is Rihanna. Upon finding out that she was from Barbados, I decided to call the [Barbados] Tourism Authority (BTA) and to find out if we could do a promotion to send winners over,” explained Caroline Riegel, director of marketing who brought 32 winners to the island.

Radio station hitz.fm is giving you and your partner the chance to catch Rihanna (pic) live in Bangkok. The hot R&B star opens the Jay-Z concert on Oct 18 at the BEC Tero Hall in Bangkok. All you have to do is call the station at 03-95433311 when you hear the “Double Dose” promotion on Rihanna. You stand the chance to win yourself her latest album and some cool merchandise. For the big prize, wait for two Rihanna songs back to back on the station and call after the queue to call ? that wins you the trip to Bangkok to catch her live. That’s simple enough. Stay tuned to hitz.fm for information. -Star-Ecentral.com

Hey what’s up? My name is Jeigh and I’m a new reporter for RihannaWeb.Org! I will keep you updated with the most recent Rihanna news, so please stay tuned.

The 18-year-old beauty is among the top awardees at the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) awards, held on Wednesday in London. Rhianna who performed her single Unfaithful live at the MOBO Awards, won the award for Best R & B artist.

Jay-Z, and Caribbean Queen, Rihanna, will be visiting South Africa in October, for a 3-date tour which will see them performing in Cape Town on the 11th, in Durban on the 13th, and finally in Johannesburg on the 14th. And now, Jay-Z and Rihanna will be supported throughout the tour by one of SA’s biggest Kwaito superstars Kabelo.

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Maybe the Barbadian pop star is just too circuit tired but when she appeared in Honolulu for the second time in three months she received bad reviews for a performance full of flaws. The 18-year-old continues to tour in support of her sophomore album, “A Girl Like Me”, released in April. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin said that the sound was out of whack with her recorded background vocals over-powering her.