United States American 1964 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles Hard Townes, who helped invent the now-ubiquitous laser, dies at the age of 99.
January 2015 nor'easter New England sees the worst of the blizzard with Boston, Massachusetts covered in two feet of snow.
January 26 crash The death toll from the January 26 crash of a Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighter jet in southern Spain rises to eleven.
Pope Francis Pope Francis holds a private meeting with a transsexual man and his fiancée at the Vatican.
Israeli–Lebanese conflict Israeli security forces claim that Hezbollah and forces loyal to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad are responsible for firing rockets from Syrian territory onto the Golan Heights into the mount Hermon sky resort.
Ongoing civil war Five gunmen at the Libyan Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli attack with at least ten dead. The hotel was previously the location in 2013 where a former prime minister was abducted.