Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, who defeated the Aztec Empire and colonized large parts of Mexico, dies of pleurisy. 1697: ...

Known to travel in groups or pods, killer whales can sabotage their victims by encircling them en masse before they attack ...

In 1177BC, Amurapi, the last king of Ugarit in modern-day Syria, wrote in cuneiform on baked clay to the Hittite emperor ...

A small plane carrying six people has crashed southeast of Costa Rica’s capital, but the condition of those aboard was not immediately known. The Central American country’s civil aviation authorities ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin’s “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings ...