01/01/2012 - 02/01/2012 - G25 Publications

Adele Plans Post-Surgery Comeback, But Will Grammys Be on the Schedule?

By Gadiola Emanuel - 8:17:00 AM

Adele is almost ready to set fire to the stage once again!

The bestselling artist of 2011 is planning to sing at next month's Brit Awards, where she's nominated for Album of the Year, Best Female Solo Artist and Best British Single.

Considering the songbird has been silent for months, that's just grand news! "F--king happy. Thanks for the nods," Adele agreed via Twitter.

But wait, the Brits are Feb. 21, after the Grammys, where Adele is nominated six times...

MORE: Adele All Dolled Up and On the Go

Though the Grammys are a mere nine days before the Brit Awards, Adele's pipes have been through quite the ordeal and she has not yet publicly committed to singing at the Feb. 12 ceremony and will not be giving an official answer until early next month.

On a positive note, the rumors go so far as to say Adele is going to open the Grammys—which would be a heck of a comeback after undergoing surgery in November to remove a hemorrhage-causing polyp near her vocal cords.

But even if she doesn't sing, at least we can count on a speech or two (or six)...

"Looking forward to @theGRAMMYs on Feb 12!

#WeAreMusic," Adele tweeted, along with one of the new posters (starring Adele!) hyping the 54th Grammy Awards.

At the Brit Awards, meanwhile, Adele will share the spotlight with fellow nominees like Florence + the Machine, P.J. Harvey, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Jessie J, Nicki Minaj, Coldplay, Foo Fighters and Foster the People

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Confirmed: Rumer Willis Was Present During Demi Moore's Emergency

By Gadiola Emanuel - 8:09:00 AM

Well, at least one of our five lingering questions has been answered.

A source confirmed to E! News that Demi Moore's daughter Rumer Willis was in the house the night of Moore's emergency medical situation, and was indeed the person referred to as "Rue" by the male on the 911 call.

MORE: Five Lingering Mysteries From Demi Moore's 911 Emergency

"Hey, Rue, what's the name at the gate so that we can buzz them in from here?" a man is heard saying during the call.

Rumer, along with a couple friends, was in another part of the house when her mom suffered her seizure.

Our source claims that "a few people" from the birthday party Moore had been hosting were left in the house at the time she went into convulsions, but only one girlfriend witnessed Demi's initial episode after the star "smoked something ."

MORE: Demi Undergoes "Spiritual Counseling"

Since her mother's health scare, however, Rumer hasn't exactly been keeping a low profile. The 23-year-old was twice spotted at the hospital where Demi was treated last week prior to her release, and was even caught by paparazzi smoking a cigarette and looking distraught outside the facility.

Meanwhile, over the weekend, while Moore was beginning her spiritual counseling, Rumer and her sister Tallulah made the rounds at the Four Seasons spa in Beverly Hills Saturday afternoon. Sunday night, Rumer rejoined Glenn Close and daughter Annie Starke at a Screen Actors Guild Award afterparty at the Chateau Marmont.

Must have been nice company: she also dined with them on Saturday night.

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The Tanzania Foreign Minister Bernard Membe at A Working Lunch With the Australia Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd

By Gadiola Emanuel - 6:22:00 AM

The Tanzania Foregn Minister Hon. Membe with Australia Foreign Minister ,Hon. Kevin Rudd getting rid of Lunch.

The Tanzania Foreign Minister HON. Bernard Membe at a working lunch with the Australia Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd at te sidelines of the Africa Union Summit in Addis Ababa ethiopia.

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GISELLE BUNDCHEN IN KENYA

By Gadiola Emanuel - 12:31:00 AM

On her first official visit to Africa, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador and iconic face of fashion, Gisele Bündchen, went to the grassroots level in Kenya to experience the reality of energy poverty and to see how Kenyans are transforming their lives by accessing sustainable energy.

“Energy affects everything. Children can study at night when they have access to electricity. If we can bring electricity to everyone, we can help people to survive,” she told a press conference at the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi. “It’s unjust if people do not have access to electricity.

Energy for all is achievable. Just 2% of global investment is needed,” she added, speaking a week before the global launch of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All (IYSEA). Ms. Bündchen’s visit to Kenya took her to Kibera, East Africa’s largest slum, to look at biogas centers (turning human waste into power), to Kisumu, in western Kenya, where she took part in collecting firewood and learned about fuel-efficient cook stoves and to the Mount Kenya area where micro-hydro power is bringing electricity to over 2,000 households.

While gains have been made in accessing electricity in the past two decades, huge gaps still remain. One in every five people on the planet do not have access to electricity. In Sub-Saharan Africa some 70 percent of the population have no electricity, while in Kenya only 18 percent of households have power.

Access to adequate fuels for cooking is also a major challenge, with many families still dependent on wood which produces toxic smoke, impacting the health of women and children. Around half the world’s population cook on open indoor fires and each year over 2.5 million people die prematurely as a result of breathing in emissions from these cook stoves, primarily from a substance called black carbon, also known as soot. Many more are blighted by ill health, such as chronic bronchitis.

Meanwhile, black carbon is emerging as an important climate change pollutant and is also implicated in crop damage. “We don’t hear about this and yet the solutions are so simple,” added Ms. Bündchen, who has recently been named the ‘world’s greenest celebrity’.

“When we come out of our bubbles and travel, you experience what I did in Kenya and it’s amazing how we can change our viewpoints You ask what can we do in our daily lives to make change. Everybody can help in a different way,” she said. “She speaks for the issues and she speaks from the heart. We were lucky to get her as a Goodwill Ambassador. It’s important to go out and meet people, which is part of making someone a great ambassador who can in turn communicate to millions of people that, for example, sustainable energy for all is possible—that it is one powerful way of motivating and catalyzing positive change in the run-up to Rio+20 in June this year,” said UN Under Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.

“We need to change our way of thinking and not think globally but locally. In Africa two thirds of the population still do not have access to energy. There are solutions at the local and community levels. I have a dream that with photovoltaic energy we can build grids up from the bottom and that one day we will see rural areas generating electricity and selling energy to the cities,” he added.

Kenya is increasingly developing its geothermal, wind, solar and hydro power resources at the local level. UNEP has worked to realize and to accelerate the use of renewable energies within the overall theme of a Green Economy, with a special emphasis on Africa, and Kenya in particular.

The UN’s new office facility in Nairobi, which Ms. Bündchen visited and which houses UNEP and UN-HABITAT, has 6,000 square meters of solar panels and generates as much electricity as its 1,200 occupants consume. Ms. Bündchen’s visit, which was organized by Practical Action in partnership with UNEP, was designed to raise the profile of the IYSEA and highlight the importance of energy access globally.

“As a UNEP Ambassador, Gisele recognises that no issue is more relevant to the future of the global economy, the prosperity and well-being of the world’s poorest people, and the preservation of our planet, than sustainable energy. Her passion, credibility and commitment to energy access will draw significant attention to this pressing development issue and help to ensure that in two decades times, every women, man and child has access to the power to challenge work their way out of poverty,” said Margaret Gardner, Director at Practical Action.

Practical action, a non-governmental organization headquartered in the United Kingdom, works with poor communities to provide them with small-scale solutions to overcome their poverty. Ms. Bündchen became a UNEP Goodwill Ambassador in 2009. Source: UNEP