Rihanna will be making a return to Saturday Night Live next month! The 24-year-old singer will be the musical guest on the May 5 episode of SNL, which will be hosted by New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning.

Rihanna has appeared on the show twice before as a musical guest and also acted in two different Shy Ronnie skits alongside Andy Samberg. We hope that we get a third one!

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Rihanna was seen yesterday in audience at 2012 Coachella Festival in Indio, California. Ri was also seen at the festival last year.

Via Deadline.com: Universal’s Battleship continues to screen strongly overseas with estimates from Day 2 and Day 3 bringing the 72-hour total to $58 million with all 26 international territories now open. Director Peter Berg’s military vs alien actioner opened to #1 in 24 of those new territories. Battleship opens next weekend in 24 more international territories including China (April 18) and Russia (April 19) — but not in the U.S./Canada until May 18th:

• The UK opened #1 on Friday with an estimated $1.3M (£770). That’s ahead of Thor but ahead of Wrath Of The Titans and John Carter. The total with previews is $3.7M (£2.3M).
• Spain opened #1 with an estimated $900k (€681k), better than Iron Man.
• Germany opened #1 on Thursday with $900K, which is the biggest opening for an English language film in Germany this year. It continued #1 on Friday with $1.2M, equal to Iron Man but not as big as Transformers.
• Japan opened #1 with an estimated $900k (LC 72M), higher than Thor‘s opening day.
• Thailand opened #1 with $470K, which is the biggest opening day of 2012 and Universal’s 2nd biggest opening day ever (behind only Fast Five).
• Malaysia opened #1 with $390K, which is Universal’s biggest opening day of all time.
• Korea had another strong day and Battleship remains #1 with a three-day total of $4.2M (LC 4.7M) — better than Iron Man and Thor.

Rihanna was spotted yesterday evening (April 12) leaving Giorgio Baldi restaurant in Los Angeles.

Via Deadline.com: Universal may have the last laugh after all now that its Battleship is opening overseas. For months the studio has fought media bad buzz about how risky this expensive military vs alien actioner from Peter Berg has been. Especially when the studio is claiming it came in at $209 million — and everyone else is saying $250+M. And there’s still the possibility that, in the United States at least, it could become a disappointing ”John Carter in gunmetal grey” invoking that most recent $250+M budget buster that disappointed at the box office for a $250M writeoff for Disney. But Battleship debuted Wednesday in Australia, Korea, Belgium, France, and Switzerland, and previewed in 11 other territories, “and we are off to a very good start,” a Universal exec tells me.

The Day One estimate for April 11th currently has the film grossing $7.4M. Best is that the film jumped to #1 in every market where it opened or previewed except France where it succumbed to an extremely popular local French film. And this despite a crowded international marketplace with The Hunger Games, Titanic 3D, American Pie Reunion, and The Wrath Of The Titans atop box office over Easter weekend.

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RiRi touched down in Los Angeles earlier today. She’s back home after few weeks of intense “Battleship” promo. Expect more by the end of the month!

• Watch here Rihanna talking about “Battleship” and her future plans with Australia’s The Today Show.

• Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker talking about “Battleship” at Australia’s The Morning Show. Click here to watch.

• Rihanna talked about “Battleship” and how she feels when asked about her personal life, watch here.

• Fifi and Jules caught up with Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker in their hotel room. Watch here.

• Rihanna chats to New Zealand’s Mike, Dom & Sharyn from Sydney about filming, having a potty mouth and much more. Listen here.

• Rihanna at the “Battleship” premiere in Sydney. Watch new videos here, here and here.

• French radio station NRJ interviewed Rihanna when she was in London recently. Watch here.

• Actor Liam Neeson talks Rihanna: “My God, she’s so cute and she’s great in the film. I know her songs well. I’ve been known to hum ‘We Found Love’ from time to time.”

• Rihanna has confessed that she wanted to be just like her “Battleship” character Raikes when she was growing up: “She’s badass. I want to be just like Raikes when I grow up. She’s tough and she’s one of the boys. She’s so good at what she does professionally, she’s very focused and she can hang with the guys – just as tough.”

Check out the full article featuring Rihanna from the latest Elle magazine! Make sure to purchase your copy!

Many thanks to Inti for the scans!!

RiRi was photographed departing from Sydney’s Kingsford-Smith Airport on Thursday (April 12).

Click here and here to see two photos that Rihanna and her best friend, Melissa, have added to Instagram. You can check all of Rihanna’s and Melissa’s Instagram photos here and here.

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RiRi was looking fabulous in Sydney earlier today (April 11th). She was on her way to a restaurant to celebrate her best friend’s birthday. We’re loving the look!

Rihanna has used her Instagram account (@badgalriri) to show Rihanna Navy the single cover for “Where Have You Been”, the 4th single from her latest album, “Talk That Talk”.

“‘Where Have You Been’ is the single that is going to start kicking in,” Rihanna told Capital FM. “We just shot the video with Dave Mars a couple of weeks ago. We wanted to use a lot of natural habitat. You know, we built a stage but everything went back to either a little bit of tribal or different cultures, and all mixed in to nature somehow, and it was fun. [There is] some dancing. We had to dance because that song is just dance central. You can’t stop moving when you hear it.’”

The track has already been added to the United States’ biggest radio stations: Z100 and KIIS FM. Make sure to start RIHquesting it!

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Dear Melissa, RihannaDaily crew would like to wish you a “Happy Birthday” on this very special day. And may you have many many many more filled with joy, love and everything you’ve ever dream of!

Pictured above: Melissa and RiRi celebrating Mel’s bday (April 11, 2012)