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Singing legend Natalie Cole, known for great hits as This Will Be and the Unforgettable, died on Thursday night at a hospital in Los Angeles from congestive heart failure according to TMZ.

“Natalie Cole, sister beloved & of substance and sound. May her soul rest in peace,” tweeted the Rev. Jesse Jackson on New Year’s Day.

The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which serves more passengers than any other airport in the world, has reached 100 million passengers since Jan. 1, marking a milestone no other airport has ever reached, officials said. 

Republican front-runner Donald Trump defended his provocative call for banning Muslims from the United States in Dec. 15 night's presidential debate as the candidates pushed their own plans for fighting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.
     

A spokeswoman of Los Angeles police department confirmed that the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD ) received a threat.

Police, though, could not confirm the validity or specificity of the threat.

The threat was made to “students at school,” LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines said at a press conference Tuesday morning.

The LA World Premiere of the latest Star Wars installment, “The Force Awakens”, took place in Los Angeles ten years after the last film. And its return to celluloid after a decade-long absence was triummphant with Stormtrooper mannequins and neon lights resembling giant lightsabers inside an opaque tent shrouding the carpet.

Istanbul has been named one of the four anchor megacities of Europe along with London, Paris and Moscow in terms of its economic and real estate capacity and power, according to research by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). 

Daniel Marker-Moore’s time-sliced photos carry the charm of time lapse photography to show the shift from day to night across the world’s most iconic cities. The photographs focus on a point in the day – sunrise or sunset – with the most dramatic change in light. Taking dozens of images to show the subtle changes of the sun, he joins these together with interesting results.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said on Dec. 4 that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in Southern California were its followers, and FBI agents raided a home apparently belonging to a friend of the husband. 

Police on Dec. 2 identified the two suspects, a man and a woman, who died in an exchange of fire with police following the mass shooting that killed 14 people in California.
 

The fourth and final film in the blockbuster "Hunger Games" series, a dystopian fantasy saga that turned Jennifer Lawrence into a Hollywood mega-star, hits the big screen this week and is expected to catch fire at the box office.