“If things go smoothly, we can expect a direct flight between Vietnam and Los Angeles by the end of 2019 or early 2020,” Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles’ Mayor, told a local newspaper recently.

 A shooting by a 12-year-old girl at a Californian school in thought to be unintentional, Los Angeles police say.

 More than 1,600 firefighters battled on Monday to contain a fast-spreading wildfire that has forced hundreds of evacuations in the drought-parched canyons north of Los Angeles, destroying 18 homes, killing at least one person

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will not send any films to compete in the Best Foreign Language Film Category at the 86th Academy Awards next March in Los Angeles.

 South Korean "Gangnam Style" rapper Psy plans to release a new album in September and says he has already recorded three songs for the project.

 Michael Jackson's 83-year-old mother lashed out at the promoters of his doomed last tour, accusing them of letting her son "waste away" before his 2009 death.

 Long lines formed as Los Angeles gun owners turned in weapons for up to $200 worth of groceries, in a gun buyback event brought forward after the Connecticut school shooting.

 One of Michael Jackson's iconic single gloves sold for nearly $200,000 this week in Los Angeles, an auction house said.