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Highlights From Last Night's Grammys, Including Katy Perry's Cleavage And Fun Being Fun

LOS ANGELES -And the winner of the 55th Grammy Awards is... the younger generation. Sunday night's Gammys were all about Mumford & Sons, Fun, Gotye and the Black Keys.

Gotye (left) and Kimbra (right) during their acceptance speech, Youtube expand=1].

Here are the night's big winners:

Record of the year: Somebody That I Used To Know – Gotye Featuring Kimbra

Album of the year: Babel – Mumford & Sons

Song of the year: We Are Young - Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess, songwriters (Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe)

Best New Artist: Fun

Best rock album: El Camino – The Black Keys

Best R&B album: Black Radio – Robert Glasper Experiment

Best rap album: Take Care – Drake

Highlights of the evening included Katy Perry’s cleavage and J-Lo’s dress:

Katy Perry last night at the Grammy's in bright green twitter.com/masatostudio/s…

— Masato Jones(@masatostudio) February 11, 2013

J Lo in black. ðŸ˜�ðŸ˜� twitter.com/JordanEllisHop…

— Jordan™ (@JordanEllisHope) February 11, 2013

Other highlights included Fun lead singer Nate Reuss' speech: “I don't know what I was thinking writing the chorus for this song. If you have HD you can see us, and we are not young."

A glimpse at the night's big winners:

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That Man In Mariupol: Is Putin Using A Body Double To Avoid Public Appearances?

Putin really is meeting with Xi in Moscow — we know that. But there are credible experts saying that the person who showed up in Mariupol the day before was someone else — the latest report that the Russian president uses a doppelganger for meetings and appearances.

screen grab of Putin in a dark down jacket

During the visit to Mariupol, the Presidential office only released screen grabs of a video

Russian President Press Office/TASS via ZUMA
Anna Akage

Have no doubt, the Vladimir Putin we’re seeing alongside Xi Jinping this week is the real Vladimir Putin. But it’s a question that is being asked after a range of credible experts have accused the Russian president of sending a body double for a high-profile visit this past weekend in the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

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Reports and conspiracy theories have circulated in the past about the Russian leader using a stand-in because of health or security issues. But the reaction to the Kremlin leader's trip to Mariupol is the first time that multiple credible sources — including those who’ve spent time with him in the past — have cast doubt on the identity of the man who showed up in the southeastern Ukrainian city that Russia took over last spring after a months-long siege.

Russian opposition politician Gennady Gudkov is among those who confidently claim that a Putin look-alike, or rather one of his look-alikes, was in the Ukrainian city.

"Now that there is a war going on, I don't rule out the possibility that someone strongly resembling or disguised as Putin is playing his role," Gudkov said.

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