Time Warner has already rejected Rupert Murdoch's $80 billion buyout overture, but on Tuesday night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart seemed pretty convinced that Murdoch will triumph in the end. Not that he's happy about the News Corp. mogul expanding his already huge media empire. "If he buys Time Warner," Stewart said, "news will just be shit Rupert Murdoch thinks." But if the sale goes through, at least Murdoch won't gobble up CNN, because of antitrust concerns over Murdoch's ownership of Fox News.

The expected asking price for CNN would be about $10 billion, Stewart said, which "is a lot of money for anyone — but not a lot of money for everyone." With that in mind, Stewart announced the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to buy CNN through crowdsourcing. You can see the prizes on the website The Daily Show set up for this bit, LetsBuyCNN.com. And what would Stewart do with CNN if he somehow raised $10 billion (and CNN actually goes on the block)? I guess that's fodder for a future episode. --Peter Weber

Singer and Grammy Award winner Natalie Cole died Thursday night, her publicist confirmed Friday. She was 65.

TMZ is reporting Cole died from congestive heart failure in a Los Angeles hospital, with the underlying causes being complications from a kidney transplant she received in 2009 and Hepatitis C. Recently, she had to cancel several concerts due to illness, including a New Year's Eve performance scheduled for Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Cole overcame substance abuse issues, and had been battling health problems for several years.

The daughter of Nat King Cole, she was known for her hits "This Will Be," "Inseparable," and "Unforgettable…With Love," a duet that used recordings of her late father. Catherine Garcia

Speaking to thousands of people below him in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis shared his wishes for peace and compassion from a window in the Vatican on Friday.

"Let's renew, to one another, the desire that that which awaits us is a little better" than the events of 2015, he said. "It is, after all, a sign of the hope that animates us and invites us all to believe in life." The pope made his comments following his New Year's Day Mass, and reiterated a message he shared during his homily, that "the enemy of peace isn't only war, but also indifference." He also spoke out against "barriers, suspicions, fears, and closures" toward people, and said that while he knows in the new year "everything won't change and that many of yesterday's problems will also retain tomorrow," he is still making a "wish sustained by real hope." Catherine Garcia

In cities across the globe, the new year started off with an array of festivities, including spectacular fireworks shows, dazzling laser and light displays, and underwater concerts. In New York City, more than one million people came out to Times Square to watch the famed ball drop, while in Brazil, revelers celebrated on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach. In Japan, balloons were released by Tokyo Tower, and traditional bell-ringing could be heard across South Korea. China had one of the more interesting events — divers carrying musical instruments jumped into a fish tank in Yantai and performed a concert while underwater. Catherine Garcia

Police are searching for the suspect in a deadly shooting that killed two people and wounded at least four near a pub in Tel Aviv Friday.

A police spokesperson told CNN "it is not possible to determine if this is a criminal or terror attack." Two witnesses told Israeli media that the suspect was dressed in black and wearing a black mask, and appeared to be carrying a military-style assault weapon, CNN reports, but police have not released any information on what the suspect was wearing. Catherine Garcia

German authorities shut down and evacuated Munich's main train stations on New Year's Eve after receiving a "very concrete" tip that Islamic State suicide bombers were planning a suicide bomb attack at a train station at midnight.

Police said Friday the stations are open again, and Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the Bavarian state broadcaster BR "the situation has eased a bit again" and authorities "have nothing concrete about a place or time." A police spokeswoman said the tip came from the French secret service, the BBC reports. Tensions have been high in Europe since the Nov. 13 terror attacks that killed 130 people in Paris. Brussels, Belgium, canceled its New Year's Eve fireworks over security concerns. Harold Maass

In his weekly address, President Obama said he will meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to "discuss our options" when it comes to "new actions" he can take to "help reduce gun violence."

The White House released the address on Friday, one day earlier than usual, and sources familiar with his plan said the president will expand new background-check requirements for people who buy weapons from high-volume gun dealers, The Washington Post reports. "I get too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing," Obama said in his address. "I get letters from responsible gun owners who grieve with us every time these tragedies happen; who share my belief that the Second Amendment guarantees a right to bear arms; and who share my belief that we can protect that right while keeping an irresponsible, dangerous few from inflicting harm on a massive scale."

Sources told the Post that Obama will use his executive authority in other areas as well, but the overall package is not yet finalized. Catherine Garcia

A Dubai high-rise hotel went up in flames Thursday evening, just ahead of a planned firework show at the nearby Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. It was unclear what caused the fire to break out at the 63-story Address Hotel.

"I don't think there's any way they can control this," fire analyst John Lentini told CBSN on the phone while watching the footage. He added, "It could very well be as impressive as 9/11, in terms of what happens to the building." Jeva Lange