LOS ANGELES - The Oscars have launched a landmark campaign to diversify the ranks of Academy Award voters who decide which actors, movies and filmmakers earn recognition, but Hollywood's highest honors may remain a predominantly white affair for some time to come.
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Actor Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of the nonprofit Water.org, came to the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday to call attention to the desperate need for clean water in impoverished regions around the world. He said the water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, is something millions of people across the globe experience every day.
WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington is closed, but a video of one of the zoo's four pandas enjoying the snow there is making a lot of people smile.
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood producers named "The Big Short" the best film of 2015 at a glitzy awards show on Saturday, which was dominated by talk of racial bias in voting for the Oscars to be awarded next month.
Britain's finance minister and tech billionaire Bill Gates unveiled a plan to spend billions to defeat "the world's deadliest killer" malaria on Monday.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will consider all possible options to grow its home appliances business including mergers or acquisitions, a senior company executive said on Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Three senior Twitter executives are leaving the media company, which is also adding a new chief marketing officer and two board members, a source said on Sunday, outlining the biggest leadership changes since Jack Dorsey returned as chief executive, calling for "bold rethinking."
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Three senior Twitter executives are leaving the media company, which is also adding a new chief marketing officer and two board members, a source said on Sunday, outlining the biggest leadership changes since Jack Dorsey returned as chief executive, calling for "bold rethinking."
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet said on Monday they had lost a deep-water sonar detector being used to scour a patch of the ocean floor where the plane is believed to have gone down almost two years ago.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet said on Monday they had lost a deep-water sonar detector being used to scour a patch of the ocean floor where the plane is believed to have gone down almost two years ago.
(Reuters) - Jason Dufner clinched his first title in more than two years with a nerve-jangling playoff victory over David Lingmerth at the CareerBuilder Challenge in La Quinta, California on Sunday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Brazilian Roberto Firmino has proved he is a real striker who can score goals regularly for Liverpool, according to manager Juergen Klopp.
DENVER — If this 17th matchup with Tom Brady was indeed the final one, Peyton Manning got the last laugh thanks to Von Miller.
LONDON (Reuters) - Any doubts Dele Alli is the kind of player to take Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham Hotspur to another level were dispelled this weekend.
LONDON (Reuters) - Arsenal missed their chance to go back to the top of the Premier League after being forced to play with 10 men for much of the 1-0 home defeat by London rivals Chelsea on Sunday.
SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, SYDNEY, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Australian shares rose more than 1 percent on Monday as a rally in oil markets pushed the index to a 10-day high.
MADRID (Reuters) - Barcelona forward Luis Suarez turned 29 on Sunday confident he is in the best form of his career before Athletic Bilbao visit in the second leg of their King's Cup quarter-final tie on Wednesday.
* Lingmerth undone by approach in playoff (Adds quotes, detail)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said Vice President Joe Biden and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed ways to deepen cooperation in the fight against Islamic State in a meeting on Saturday in Istanbul.
SHANGHAI, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Chinese shares began the week on a firmer note on Monday, extending gains from Friday after a rally in oil prices underpinned a rise in global equities.
Jan 25 (Infostrada Sports) - Scores from the U.S. PGA Tour CareerBuilder Challenge at the par-72 course on Sunday in La Quinta, California PLAY-OFF 1 Jason Dufner (U.S.) after 2 2 David Lingmerth (Sweden) after 2 REGULAR ROUNDS -25 Jason Dufner (U.S.) 64 65 64 70 David Lingmerth (Sweden) 68 68 62 65 -21 Andrew Loupe (U.S.) 66 66 67 68 Phil Mickelson (U.S.) 68 65 66 68 Kevin Na (U.S.) 71 66 62 68 -20 A
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is expected to approve a draft resolution on Monday that calls for establishing a U.N. mission to oversee disarmament should Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels reach a final peace deal, diplomats said.
LONDON (Reuters) - German sportswear company Adidas AG is to end its 11-year sponsorship deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) almost four years early, the BBC reported on Sunday.
New York prepares to resume normal life following a blizzard blamed for 20 deaths across the country, but residents in the Washington, D.C. area will find closed offices and little public transit on Monday. Diane Hodges reports.
