Singer Adele insists special guests at her concerts donate cash to her favourite cause in return for complimentary tickets. The Someone Like You singer helps raise funds for Sands, an organisation dedicated to supporting parents coping with the death of an infant, by demanding that everyone who scores a free pass to her shows hand over at least $20 (£12.50) …

Beyonce Knowles will bring her current concert tour to Israel on June 15, Channel 2 news reported Sunday evening The performance will reportedly be held in Tel Aviv’s Park Haryarkon, an outdoor venue, and it’s still unclear which local production team will be handling the stop in Israel.

On March 16, 2014, just before 3:30pm, Oakbank RCMP responded to a call that a child had been mauled by two dogs in the RM of Springfield. Police say that a seven-year-old female from the RM of St. Andrews was rushed to Winnipeg hospital, where she was pronounced deceased.

An unnamed Silicon Valley billionaire has purchased the world’s most valuable life insurance policy, and Guinness Book of World Record officials say the $201 million life insurance policy is more than double the previous record. A Southern California financial services company that helped put the deal together declined to identify the buyer for safety reasons.

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck Los Angeles early Monday morning, but there were no reports of major damage or injuries, officials said. The quake, which was swiftly downgraded from an initial magnitude of 4.7, hit a few miles northwest of Westwood at a depth of 8.5 kilometers, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The last words from the cockpit of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 – “all right, good night” – were uttered after someone on board had already begun disabling one of the plane’s automatic tracking systems, a senior Malaysian official said, Reuters reports.

Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has said she has no regrets about quitting her role as an Oxfam ambassador to promote SodaStream. The actress dropped her title last month after becoming the face of the fizzy drinks firm which has a controversial factory in an Israeli settlement in Palestine.

Nigerian officials say at least 16 people were killed in stampedes when a half-million people were invited to apply for fewer than 5,000 government jobs.

Olivia Wilde, who stars as a suburban sex kitten in Better Living Through Chemistry, writes eloquently in Darling magazine about her volunteer work in Haiti, which had her burying victims with pal Babs Burchfield.

Some California communities want to rely less on water piped in from distant sources and tap their own supplies instead. California is in its third dry year. The historic drought has affected farmland, dried up reservoirs and forced some rural communities to ration water. The Southern California beach city of Santa Monica wants to be water independent by 2020. In …

After reaching the No. 2 spot on its debut week, “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” now takes lead at the box office, surpassing both the weekend ticket sales of “300: Rise of An Empire” and “Need for Speed.” According to DreamWorks’ estimates on Sunday, March 16, “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” has earned $21.2 million during this weekend screening alone.