MONDAY: Going in for the shrill.

President Obama will visit ABC's "The View" this week, to try and connect with the show's broad, female demographic. Numerous security measures are being added to the set, which Elisabeth Hasselbeck assumed were all for her protection. This will mark the first time that a sitting president has appeared on a daytime television show, although Richard Nixon made repeated attempts to get onto "The Price is Right."

In the town of Novozavidovo, Jean Gregoire Sagbo has become the first Black Russian ever elected to political office in the country. He beat out a rum runner, a zombie and a screwdriver to become a municipal councilor in a town that has been plagued by alcoholism.

In Germany a techno music festival called, The Love Parade, has resulted in tragedy when 19 people were crushed to death and 342 injured. Apparently mass panic set in for tens of thousands of Germans when they suddenly felt emotions.