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After a childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of a united Germany for 16 years, becoming the most powerful w...

We leave you this Sunday morning taking it slow, with Hawksbill turtles off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Videographer: Lee McEachern.

According to what was posted on a government website, 13.5 trillion rubles (over $145 billion) were allocated for national defense, around 3...

Severe weather threatens already-busy Thanksgiving travel home; How severe weather could impact Christmas trees.

While Ukrainian men continue fighting in the nearly three-year-long war with Russia, women are stepping up on the homefront. Holly Williams...

Insurgents were filmed outside police headquarters, in the city center, and outside the Aleppo citadel.

The militant group Hamas released a propaganda video Saturday of an Israeli-American hostage pleading for President-elect Donald Trump to se...

The woman was removed from the Delta flight by French law enforcement prior to takeoff Saturday, CBS News learned.

Edan Alexander grew up in New Jersey and was a soldier in the Israeli military when Hamas militants attacked on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023.

Meanwhile, an Israeli strike in Gaza hit a car, killing five people, Palestinian health officials said.

The Israeli military said Saturday it had launched a "strike on military infrastructure" at the Syria-Lebanon border. The nation is also war...

With so many of Ukraine's men serving in the military amid the country's war with Russia, businesses are recruiting women to take up their j...

Sam Benastick set out for a ten-day hiking trip in early October, but spent nearly six weeks lost in the remote Canadian wilderness. Here's...

Blast of winter weather hitting much of U.S.; Los Angeles braces for Trump's vow of mass deportations

The world is getting its first look inside Paris' iconic Notre Dame Cathedral, nearly six years after it was ravaged by a fire. French Presi...

Israel and the militant group Hezbollah continued Friday to accuse each other of violating the fragile ceasefire that went into effect earli...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with President-elect Donald Trump Friday at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Canada's...

The author's New York Times bestseller explores the culture of silence that enveloped the Mississippi Delta over the 1955 murder of Emmett T...

The former Chancellor of Germany writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a dictatorship in East Germany, and her years as l...

The bodies of two girls and a 50-year-old woman were taken to a hospital where a doctor confirmed that they died from suffocation.

Julien Arnold, 60, was playing the roles of Marley and Mr. Fezziwig in "A Christmas Carol" when he experienced a medical emergency.

Dozens of men and boys who were aboard the overcrowded dinghy jumped into the sea, Doctors Without Borders said.

U.S. Army Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sanford G. Roy was one of several airmen aboard a plane shot down over Germany in April 1944.

Members of Parliament approved the so-called assisted dying bill by a vote of 330 to 275, signaling their approval in principle for the bill...

The victim's captor allegedly changed the girl's name, kept her out of sight and out of school.