Fashion designer L’Wren Scott was found hanged to death in her NYC apartment Monday morning by her assistant, reported The Huffington Post.

Google Drive and chat services such as Google+ Hangouts were affected by a widespread outage which began at 12 pm ET on Monday, with Google still investigating the issue.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay was arrested and charged with four felony counts of possession of controlled substance and drunk driving, reported Yahoo News.

A mid-size earthquake had hit Los Angeles last Monday at 6:30 a.m. followed by a viral video of a news anchor in panic.

Palo Alto, US-based video discovery startup Boxfish bagged $7 million in a Series B funding round led by Atlantic Bridge to beef up its workforce and expand into new markets.

Minneapolis, US-based health insurance marketplace Gravie scored $10,5 million in its first funding round which was led by Aberdare Ventures to help its clients understand their best option for coverage.

Perth, Australia-based coal miner The Waterberg Coal Company Ltd raised A$2.4 million from an equity issue to London, UK-based investment firm Investec Asset Management to gain additional working capital for its current project.

San Francisco, US-based firm Kontangent+PlayHaven, a company that resulted from a merger three months ago, is rebranding as Upsight to create a single platform that integrates both game analytics and monetization.

Berkeley, US-based machine learning startup Wise.io pocketed $2.5 million in its first round of funding which was led by Voyager Capital to let its clients build machine learning models for customer behavior analytics.

Following the controversial referendum last Sunday, Crimea has formally declared its independence from Ukraine to join the Russian Federation.