A bubbly shopping guide, a comedian who wears green lipstick and eats ladles of cinnamon quizzed US Presiden in a series of unorthodox YouTube presidential interviews.
California is battling a surge of measles cases clustered around the famous Disneyland theme park, despite the virus being all but eliminated in the United States.
The Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris were a "wake-up event" for freedom of expression, movie legend Robert Redford said as he launched the Sundance Film Festival.
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has discussed the situation in Ukraine as well ask sanctions against Russia during a phone call initiated by the American President Barak Obama.
Linkin Park has canceled nearly a month of concerts around North America after the arena-packing hard rockers' lead vocalist Chester Bennington injured his leg.
French intelligence did not prevent the Paris attacks despite benefitting from "most intrusive" surveillance laws because suspects are "buried under data".
The private space exploration firm SpaceX said it had secured a $1 billion investment that could help founder Elon Musk's plan to build a satellite Internet network.
The United States and Cuba will hold their highest level talks in decades, ditching decades of Cold War-era hostility to pave the way to reopen embassies.
Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev's sombre social drama "Leviathan" may have been nominated for an Oscar, but at home the film has sparked heated debate.
US President urged Congress not to impose new sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear program, threatening to veto any such legislation that lands on his desk.