Instead of the usual water pistols, splashing and jubilant crowds during Myanmar's New Year festival of Thingyan, this year's holiday will see real guns, blood on the streets and grief over a democracy robbed. For a second year running, Myanmar's traditional...

Week 3 of testimony at the Derek Chauvin trial will start with another medical expert. Jurors have heard from 35 witnesses called by the prosecution.

Military activity in the South China Sea spiked over the weekend a Chinese aircraft carrier entered the region and a US Navy expeditionary strike group wrapped up exercises.

(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.