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Debbie Reynolds, the indefatigable star of Singin’ in the Rain, who bounced back time and again on the strength of a career that spanned the golden age of the Hollywood musical to the new golden age of TV, died on Dec. 28 at the age of 84 in Los Angeles.

The year of 2016 is about to come to an end. It was a year of full of tragedy, suffering and conflict. But it also had moments of hope and inspiration. From the U.S. presidential town hall debate to the Rio Olympics – the award-winning photographers of Reuters have really captured it all.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Wednesday rejected Brad Pitt’s request to seal details about custody arrangements in his divorce from Angelina Jolie Pitt.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has condemned the parole of a convict in the U.S who murdered a Turkish diplomat in the 1980s. 

A court in Los Angeles accepted on Dec. 14 a defense attorney's demand for the conditional release of the Armenian-origin convict, Hampig Sassounian, who killed Turkish Consul General Kemal Arikan in Los Angeles on Jan. 28, 1982. 

At the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., scientists are trying to get time to run backward. In the first attempt to reverse ageing by reprogramming the genome, they have rejuvenated the organs of mice and lengthened their life spans by 30 percent.

BELGRADE - A data breach in August 2013 exposed information held in more than 1 billion Yahoo user accounts, the company said Wednesday.

The hacking incident is separate from an intrusion Yahoo reported in September, when the company disclosed 500 million user accounts were exposed in 2014.

Hours after Uber began picking up San Francisco passengers in self-driving cars on Dec. 14, California regulators warned the ride-hailing company to stop immediately and get a special state permit - or face legal action.

The year 2016 began with David Bowie releasing one of the most acclaimed albums of his vast career, it was a sign of new creative energy from the rock legend. Two days later, he died, from an undisclosed battle with cancer. 

David and Victoria Beckham have reportedly set their eyes on a 190 million-euro mega-mansion in California, called the Manor. After putting their 29-million-euro home on Bel Air on the market, the celebrity couple wants to buy the Los Angeles mansion, the largest in the LA County. It has 14 bedrooms and 27 bathrooms and is sitting on sitting on 4.6 acres with a staggering 123 rooms.

BELGRADE - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the California on Thursday afternoon was registered near the massive geological formation known as the San Andreas Fault, considered to be one of the most seismically-active regions in the world.