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From today's featured article Rihanna "Rehab" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna (pictured) for her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007). Def Jam Recordings serviced the song to contemporary hit radio in the United States on October 6, 2008, as the eighth and final single from the album, and released it in Britain as a CD single on December 8. Development of "Rehab" began while Rihanna was accompanying Timbaland on Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveShow tour in 2007. Timberlake wrote the song in collaboration with its producers, Hannon Lane and Timbaland, and provided additional vocals. It is a mid-paced R&B song with an emotional, melancholy chorus; the lyrics are about the protagonist's painful memories of her former lover, who is portrayed metaphorically as a disease. Critics were divided on the song's production and composition, some comparing the structure to that of Timberlake's 2007 single "What Goes Around... Comes Around". The accompanying music video, directed by Anthony Mandler, was shot in Vasquez Rocks Park near Los Angeles, and won the Urban Music Award for Best Music Video. (Full article...) Recently featured: Battle of Kalavrye 2012 Budweiser Shootout Myles Standish Did you know... Gwendoline Konie ... that 2001 Zambian presidential candidate Gwendoline Konie (pictured) published a poem against male arrogance? ... that the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only all-black, all-female battalion to serve overseas during World War II? ... that the 1753 opera Ciro in Armenia was created by Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, one of the earliest female Italian opera composers? ... that Vernon Johnson won back-to-back Lone Star Conference wide receiver of the year honors? ... that nearly $26 million of funds for a $42.5 million Haitian education program went missing after being raised partly from taxes on international phone calls? ... that Lesley Lewis was one of four founding students of the Courtauld Institute of Art? ... that Operation Bedrock was a successful rice denial mission? ... that Randy W. Berry, who grew up on a cattle ranch in Colorado, is the first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons in the US Department of State?

In the news Alejandro G. Iñárritu A bombing in Ankara, Turkey, kills at least twenty-eight people and injures more than sixty others. The Revenant wins five awards, including Best Film and Best Director (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, pictured), at the British Academy Film Awards. Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill jointly call for an end to persecution of Christians in the Middle East and to wars in the region. Scientists using the LIGO detector announce the first direct observation of gravitational waves. Eleven people are killed in a head-on collision between two passenger trains near Bad Aibling, Germany. Ongoing events: Zika virus outbreak European migrant crisis Recent deaths: Umberto Eco Harper Lee Boutros Boutros-Ghali On this day... February 20 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1816 – Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa The Barber of Seville was hissed by the audience during its debut at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. 1872 – New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art (pictured), today the largest art museum in the United States with a collection of over two million works of art, opened. 1959 – The Canadian government under Prime Minister John Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft program amid much political debate. 1988 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War. 2009 – The Tamil Tigers attempted to crash two aircraft packed with C-4 in suicide attacks on Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shot down before they reached their targets. More anniversaries: February 19 February 20 February 21

Today's featured picture The lesser sand plover (Charadrius mongolus) is a small wader in the plover family of birds. This highly migratory species feeds on insects, crustaceans and annelid worms. Photograph: JJ Harrison Recently featured: Burning of the Trade Unions Building The Fall of Phaeton Browsing

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