Taylor Swift – has announced her first headlining tour, which will take her to 52 cities over six months.

The singer has topped the Billboard chart for the past eight weeks with her second album, Fearless.

The singer’s show will feature multiple costume changes and an illuminated fairy-castle – and the new country group Gloriana.

Despite the extravagant set, the singer – who just launched a line of affordable dresses at Wal-Mart – says she’s mindful of the tough economy, so she plans to start ticket prices at around $20 in most markets.

Swift, 19, will officially kick off her Fearless Tour 2009, which she calls “a dream come true,” on April 23 in Evansville, Ill., immediately followed by Jonesboro, Ark., and St. Louis, Mo. (Tickets go on sale Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. PST.)

You’ve a chance to save the jet plane moving into the Hudson River.
Links are quickly being spread on the Internet of “Hero on the Hudson” - a game where you have to use your left and right arrow keys to land a jet onto the river.

This particular game is not offensive when people are clamoring for someone’s head, but it’s completely unnecessary.

The game is about as primitive as you can get, as many of the games are on Addictinggames.com. Of the 3,117 votes received, 75% give it a thumbs down.

Most of the comments below the game hit it on the head. It’s boring, stupid and offensive.

Nobody died or no serious injuries occurred when Flight 1549 had an emergency landing on the Hudson earlier this month.

The game is the latest in a chain of humorless acts that makes little sense to me. Stuff like this only perpetuates and sensationalizes similar schtick in the wake of tragic events.

The National Weather Service is forecasting the possibility of rain through the weekend in Riverside.

At the same time, a slight chance of rain and snow is predicted for the mountains Thursday, with the possibility of snow continuing through the weekend.

According to the National Weather Service, rain could move into the Inland area by Thursday.

The report said that the prediction for the valleys also calls for a slight chance of showers Thursday and the possibility of rain through
the weekend.

Temperatures in the mountains are predicted to hit highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s by the end of the week.

The Peanut product recall, said to be the largest ever, started with bulk peanut butter, spread to crackers and cookies and has engulfed products as diverse as kettle corn, pad Thai and trail mix.

The FDA said Friday that some boutique peanut butters, made from peanuts ground in stores, may be affected because of the wider recall.

The recall’s breadth has the $1 billion peanut farming industry on edge, says Emory Murphy, assistant executive director of the Georgia Peanut Commission. “This could affect demand,” he says.

In the mean time, the Department of Justice on Friday joined in the investigation of Peanut Corp. of America, raising the possibility of criminal charges. PCA’s Blakely, Ga., plant has been linked to a salmonella outbreak that’s sickened 529 and may have contributed to eight deaths.

The GMA says PCA supplied less than 1% of peanut products sold in the U.S. Still, the FDA says the company has more than 300 customers, many of whom used PCA’s products as an ingredient.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Sunday,after spending a week in hospital following a bypass surgery.

He was admitted on January 24, and on January 25, he successfully underwent the beating heart bypass surgery.

The 11-hour surgery was performed by a team of doctors from AIIMS and the Asian Heart Institute. He is now back home at 7 Race Course Road.

The PM had multiple blockages in the heart. This was his second bypass. A team of doctors will closely monitor his progress at his residence.

Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has strengthened his position as the country’s leader in Iraq voting.

The leaders of rival Shia parties acknowledged on Monday that al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition appeared to be heading for a strong win.

According to the reports, if confirmed, the results in the second major election since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein would overturn six years of provincial rule by mostly religious parties and give al-Maliki strong momentum in his bid to hold on to power in a general election due this year.

Nobody has expected that they would achieve this in Basra, in Nassiriya, in Samawa, in Kut. In this government, nobody had expected they could achieve such a result, an official said.

Hundreds of thousands of eligible voters out of the 15 million eligible to vote in 14 of the country’s 18 provinces were reported to have been left off ballot lists. Election officials have said they will investigate.

In a truly remarkable and gutsy performance, Rafael Nadal shook down Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2 in the final of the Australian Open on Sunday. It’s now Nadal’s sixth Grand Slam title at the same time he’s now the first man since Andre Agassi in 1999 to win majors on three different surfaces.

Nadal, the first Spaniard to win the Australian Open said here, “It’s a dream win here, one Grand Slam on hard court.”

“I worked very hard all my life to improve the tennis outside of clay. I’m very happy for the title. Today was really a lot of emotions on court.”

For all the talk of Federer’s automatic ascension to the accolade of the greatest of all-time, it has been the much-improved Nadal who has been the more ambitious and resourceful player over the past 13 months.

“Roger can’t be called the greatest ever yet,” said U.S. Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe.

Since June, Nadal has won three of the last four majors as well as the Olympic gold medal. He torched Federer in the 2008 French Open final for his fourth straight Roland Garros crown, stopped Federer’s five-title Wimbledon streak in a five-set classic.