CASS McCOMBS drops a video for "Name Written In Water" that features... pig butchery.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS advance stream English Oceans.

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE advance streams More Fears.

LAIBACH advance streams Spectre.

AVA LUNA advance streams Electric Balloon.

POSSE advance streams Soft Opening.

THE MARY ONETTES drop "Naive Dream" ahead of Portico.

THE WHO: "I'm A Boy."

STEPHEN MALKMUS talks to the Wall Street Journal about his past day jobs.

ST VINCENT: Annie Clark is profiled by The Line Of Best Fit.

UNCLE TUPELO founder/drummer Mike Heidorn talks to the St Louis Post-Dispatch about the No Depression reissue.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and the revolution it signified.

KATY PERRY & JOHN MAYER have called it quits...for the third time.

JUSTIN BIEBER: I don't know whether the jail video is a smoking gun, but it's fun to see him in jail.

ROBIN THICKE hasn't given up on Paula Patton, for whom the feeling seems less than mutual.

SANDRA BULLOCK is set to clear at least 70 million from Gravity.

SAM WORTHINGTON got slapped with a restraining order.

ALLISON WILLIAMS (HBO's Girls) is set to wed her boyfriend of three years, Ricky Van Veen.

GHOSTBUSTERS 3 will likely survive Harold Ramis's death.

ADAM DRIVER is likely to play the villain in Star Wars: Episode VII.

UKRAINE: The United States warned Russia on Wednesday against military intervention in Ukraine and said any incursion could lead to a broad international backlash.  The European Union and the West are not willing or capable of bailing out Ukraine’s economy, especially if Moscow retaliates with new punitive tariffs, higher prices for natural gas and a cutoff of significant ties to Ukrainian factories and businesses.  The lawmakers temporarily controlling Ukraine announced an interim government on Wednesday night, to a mixed reaction.  Protesters in Crimea have become the last major bastion of resistance to Ukraine's new rulers.

VENEZUELA's opposition ruled out attending a “peace conference” called by President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas following two weeks of protests that have killed 14 people.

THE UNITED KINGDOM: Two British Muslim converts who hacked British soldier Lee Rigby to death on a busy street in Woolwich last year were sentenced to prison; Michael Adebolajo was handed a life term and Michael Adebowale will be incarcerated for at least 45 years. The judge said the pair, who were removed from the courtroom during sentencing for shouting and scuffling with guards, had shown no remorse and that the "barbaric murder" had a "terrorist connection."

SYRIA: The leader of the Al Nusrah Front told the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham that it had five days to stop attacking rebel and jihadist groups in Syria or they would jointly destroy ISIS in both Syria and Iraq.

EGYPT: A court sentenced 26 people to death for forming a terror group that sought to launch attacks against the Suez Canal. Egypt's army chief Abdel Fattah el Sisi is expected to stay on as defense minister in the country's new cabinet. State TV said Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim will keep the same position in the forthcoming cabinet. In March, a court will announce whether Hamas is a terror organization in Egypt.

IRAN: The Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear facility at Natanz came to light nearly four years ago, but how it got there remains a mystery. A possible new explanation cites the supply chain as the key.

DEER rescued by hovercraft from a frozen lake.

A GIANT LEOPARD rampages through an Indian village.

TOADS prompt a road closure in Lincolnshire.

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