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Our pick of the best things happening in the cultural world this week.

Detectives trying to determine who abducted a three-week-old infant after shooting her parents and uncle at a Southern California home have few clues and are asking for the public’s help, officials said yesterday.

Police in California say they have found the body of a three-week-old baby, abducted after a shooting on Saturday.

A fire that forced about 850 people to evacuate from a wharf at the Port of Los Angeles is still smouldering, although officials say it is under control.

An 80-year-old California man who came home to find two burglars said he shot and killed one of them despite her pleas that she was pregnant. But it is the woman’s alleged accomplice who has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

A pre-dawn earthquake has struck across the Los Angeles basin, rattling residents from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach.

A baby treated for HIV within hours of birth is free of the virus nearly a year later, in the second case that has raised hopes about early treatment, doctors said.

Sinkholes have been appearing in Ireland and the UK with increasing regularity in recent months. What’s causing them, asks John Hearne

Exhausted pigeon in deep-sea rescue

Local boy John Merrick sealed his first PGA Tour win as he edged out Charlie Beljan in a play-off for the Northern Trust Open in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.

Karrueche Tran will always care about Chris Brown.

BROOKLYN-BORN boxer Heather Hardy was knocked down in her first professional fight in August. She got back up and won.

An immigration agent opened fire on a colleague and was then killed by a third agent in a government building in California, following what the FBI said was a case of workplace violence.

Police are searching for a man convicted of threatening to kill Madonna who walked away from a Los Angeles-area mental hospital last week.

IT is time to chill out about the potholes and spare a thought for commuters in Los Angeles who are bracing themselves for this weekend’s 53-hour closure of one of the world’s busiest motorways.

Prayers for the safe return of a 780-year-old relic stolen from a church near Los Angeles have been answered.

An Offaly woman has won the New York Lottery, worth $21.5m (€15.8m).

Long Beach and nearby areas of southern California were today shaken by a small earthquake.

AN Irish pub in the centre of Manhattan is turning into a makeshift job centre for young Irish people heading to New York looking for work.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has welcomed the return of the United States to the sport’s calendar.

An earthquake, felt by many people, rocked the Los Angeles region today.

Terrified patients and staff fled as a man went on a shooting rampage at a hospital, killing two fellow employees, then himself.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets to protest passage of a measure banning gay marriage in California, authorities said.

A mother was convicted of second-degree murder yesterday for driving her teenage son and his friends to a fatal fight with a rival gang.

Two men who crossed the Pacific on a raft made of 15,000 plastic bottles stepped onto dry land today after three months at sea.

Rescue crews responding to a crash on California’s San Fernando freeway found a driver fatally shot in the head, while another driver was shot and wounded in a separate attack about 30 miles away in Long Beach, authorities said.

Mothers have lied, spun elaborate alibis and hidden evidence for their gang-member sons. But investigators say Eva Daley went to murderous lengths.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone’s financial demands are being blamed for putting the future of the United States Grand Prix at risk.

Cameron Diaz will move back in with her parents as she gets over her split with Justin Timberlake - according to British newspaper reports.

Two people were killed when a small business jet crashed while taking off from Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles today, federal officials said.

Former Formula One driver Gianclaudio ‘Clay’ Regazzoni was killed in a motoring accident in Italy today.

Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan and other celebrities gathered in the US yesterday to protest against plans for a natural gas facility 14 miles off the California coast.

An alleged kidnapper considered armed and dangerous peacefully surrendered to US police in armoured battle wagons yesterday after a four-and-a-half-hour chase and stand-off that shut down one of southern California’s busiest freeways.

A terminal at San Diego International Airport was evacuated today after luggage screeners mistook a child’s toy and a biscuit for bomb-making components, officials said.

Airports in Long Beach and Orange County were shut down early today because of bomb threats, officials said.

Terrified passengers on board a plane crippled in mid-air prepared for the worst last night, and one taped a farewell message to his girlfriend.

Rap superstar Snoop Dogg is taking rap rival The Game on tour with him, in a bid to ease gang tension in Los Angeles.

AN 88-year-old woman has died from the West Nile virus, bringing California’s death toll from the mosquito-borne illness to three. Another possible death was suspected.

Rapper Snoop Dogg has discovered a novel way to deal with law officers who he feels are hounding him in Los Angeles and his home town of Long Beach – he employs them.

McLaren boss Ron Dennis has given his backing to an expanded Formula One calendar – but only if more cash comes with an extra race.

FORMULA ONE team bosses have given their blessing to suggestions that the United States could hold a second grand prix – but warned the calendar cannot be stretched much further.

Don’t mess with Cameron Diaz.