Kuala Lumpur, January 6: R and B star Rihanna will stage a concert in a suburb of Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on February 13.

The concert, dubbed Rihanna Live In KL 2009, will take place at at Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil.

It is part of the 20-year-old's `Good Girl Gone Bad' tour, though which she is promoting her chart-topping third album of the same name, reports the Star Online.

Tickets for the concert, being organised by Pineapple Concerts, are already on sale.

Canberra, Jan 6: A leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to US President-elect Barack Obama that Australia's use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the "destruction of much of the life on the planet".

According to a report in news. com. au, Professor James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has written an open letter to Barack Obama calling for a moratorium on coal-fired power stations and the use of next-generation nuclear power.

London, Jan 6: Mills & Boon, the world's most prolific romance publisher, has teamed up with Rugby Football Union to create a series of rugby themed romance novels.

The books will feature handsome rugby heroes and their glamorous love interests.

"Our mission statement is to do for rugby what Jilly Cooper did for polo - to give it an air of sexiness and glitz and glamour," said Guardian. co. uk quoted series editor Jenny Hutton as saying.

London, January 6: Amy Winehouse reportedly shelled out 32,000 pounds to fly friends to soak up the sun with her in the Caribbean.

The `Rehab' singer was said to have spent the staggering amount to have five more friends from North London join her in St Lucia.

The pop star, who vowed to make a fresh start for 2009 and give up her unhealthy habits including drug and alcohol addiction, reportedly dug into her savings to bear the first class all-expenses-paid trip.

New York, January 6 : After winning a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics last year, ace swimmer Michael Phelps has now entered the largest single sponsorship deal for any Western celebrity in Chinese history.

According to reports, Phelps is getting more than one million dollars to be a spokesman for Mazda in China.

Dynamic Marketing Group''s DMG Entertainment unit has revealed that the swimmer will be endorsing the Mazda 6 car in TV and print ads.

Islamabad, Jan. 6 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that India is using the Mumbai terrorist attacks for fulfilling its political agenda against Pakistan.

In a meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Richard Boucher, Zardari stated that New Delhi is trying to gain international support and sympathy in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks, the Nation reported.

He reiterated that Pakistan had offered every possible co-operation to India for investigating the Mumbai incident.