(Bloomberg) -- Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc is poised to pick the winner in a two-man showdown over its candidate to succeed her as German chancellor. The Christian Democratic Union and its smaller Bavarian sister-party, the Christian Social Union,...

MOSCOW (AP) — Crushed into the pilot's seat by heavy G-forces, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin saw flames outside his spacecraft and prepared to die. His voice broke the tense silence at ground control: “I’m burning. Goodbye, comrades.” Gagarin...

Kelyn Spadoni, 33, was arrested for not returning $1.2 million that financial services company Charles Schwab accidentally deposited into her account.

A former banker and Opus Dei devotee -- but above all an enemy of ex-president Rafael Correa -- Guillermo Lasso has returned the conservative right to power in Ecuador, winning Sunday's presidential election after two defeats that failed to discourage...

A Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer fatally shot a driver during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon, police said.

Tens of thousands are participating in Kumbh Mela even as India records its highest-ever Covid spike.