Last year, Notaro contracted pneumonia, lost her beloved mother and broke up with her girlfriend. Then she was diagnosed with cancer. But she didn't let that stop her performing a gig in LA, which her friend Louis CK called a "truly great, masterful stand-up set"

Tim Walker visits America's new capital of legal marijuana - and finds the city in the rudest of health

Judge insists on consecutive sentences for hundreds of counts, including kidnapping, rape and assault

General Keith Alexander makes public appearance in Las Vegas in wake of whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations

Late period Woody Allen movies have tended to arrive on the understanding that, though they may offer flashes of the wit, pathos and psychological acuity of his early work, they’ll never match up to Manhattan or Annie Hall. Blue Jasmine is proof that Allen’s powers are merely fluctuating, not in terminal decline: it’s his most assured, affecting work in years.

Californian Daniel Chong, now 25, had to drink his own urine to survive after he was arrested for smoking pot

Beijing accused of taking box office receipts from American studios

Presenter Lauren Green repeatedly asked Reza Aslan why he, as a Muslim, had written about Jesus

America’s two biggest shock jocks just got a shock of their own. In a major blow to their broadcasting dominance, the second-largest radio station owner in the US is said to be dropping both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its airwaves.