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Germany and India signed a series of bilateral agreements Monday focused on sustainable development that will see the South Asian nation receive 10 billion euros ($10.5 billion) in aid by 2030 to boost the use of clean energy. The accords were signed during a visit to Berlin by India's Prime...

It’s a sunny May morning as the early crowd arrives for a dip at Berlin’s Prinzenbad outdoor pool, but the air is still crisp and the water isn’t much warmer — one of many small impacts that Germany is currently feeling from the war in Ukraine. “Berlin’s pools have decided to heat the water a...

Below is a list of places that were ordered shut last week by inspectors with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. According to state records, no restaurant kitchens were ordered shut in the Florida Keys last week. Cafeteria Bodega La Cubana is the only restaurant on...

A 32-year-old woman from Miami won $2,500 a week for life after playing the $2,500 A WEEK FOR LIFE Scratch-Off game at a Navarro Discount Pharmacy in Kendall. The Florida Lottery announced that Yaimara Montes de Oca claimed her winnings last week at the Lottery’s Miami District Office. They...

Jurors returned to court on Monday to deliberate in the federal trial of a New York Police Department veteran charged with assaulting an officer who tried to protect the Capitol from an attacking insurrectionist mob last year. Thomas Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran, is the first Capitol riot...

Even for a legendary film director like Martin Scorsese, the assignment was a daunting one. Take one of the famous American period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and make essentially a one-frame movie with no camera: a tableau, not a film, but using your cinematic sensibility. Your...

Tennessee is pausing executions to enable an independent review of its lethal injection procedures after a testing oversight forced the state to call off the execution of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to die this month, Republican Gov. Bill Lee said Monday. Former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton...

Spirit Airlines’ board still supports Frontier Airlines’ $2.9 billion takeover bid for the airline, saying it determined JetBlue’s competing $3.6 billion offer isn’t a superior proposal. Last month Spirit said that after speaking with financial and legal advisers, its directors believed...

“Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency” by Mark K. Updegrove (Dutton) Nearly six decades after his assassination in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy and his legacy remain an obsession for historians and the public alike. Mark K. Updegrove's “Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency"...

The CIA says Russians disaffected by Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine may be trying to get in touch with U.S. intelligence — and it wants them to go to the darknet. The agency on Monday began a new push to promote its presence on a part of the internet accessible only through specialized...

The Supreme Court is leaving in place the illegal campaign contributions conviction of Kentucky businessman and former Democratic Party chief, Jerry Lundergan. The high court on Monday turned away Lundergan's appeal of his conviction. As is typical, the justices did not say why they rejected...

Fort Lauderdale police are searching for a thief who they said broke into a car Monday morning and then led officers on a chase. According to Detective Ali Adamson, who is also a spokeswoman for the police department, an officer spotted the man breaking into a car near the 600 block of...

The motto for Grand Valley High School and its 1,400 students in the Pennsylvania borough of Malvern, about 25 miles west of Philadelphia, is “Creating a new age of learning.” It may be helping create a new age of conversation, too. By all accounts, political polarization is growing in the...

A three-story residential building has collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, killing at least five people with many feared trapped, emergency response services said Monday. “Twenty-three people have been rescued alive including seven children and 16 adults,” said Ibrahim Farinloye of...

The eyes of Fabiana Marquez brightened after she took the first bite of a savory, crescent-like bread stuffed with ham and cheese. Memories flooded her mind. The Venezuelan immigrant hadn’t eaten a “cachito” in almost five years until she stumbled across a vendor outside her country's embassy in...

Victorious over his far-right rival in last month's presidential vote, centrist Emmanuel Macron now faces a gathering challenge from the left in France's upcoming legislative elections. A government headed by hard-left veteran politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon is hardly a prospect Macron would...

Newly obtained surveillance video will hopefully bring Miami-Dade police one step closer to finding the driver who struck a family last week in northwest Miami-Dade, killing a 2-year-old girl. The victim’s own father sent Local 10 News the surveillance video. While the footage is grainy, it...

The COVID-19 outbreak that has shut down most of Shanghai appears to be waning, with the number of new cases falling below 10,000 a day over the weekend. Authorities have begun a limited easing of a citywide lockdown that has disrupted the lives of millions of residents and dealt at least a...

A top-level U.S. congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in Warsaw on Monday to express gratitude to Poland for their humanitarian and other support for Ukraine. Pelosi and a half dozen U.S. lawmakers met with President Andrzej Duda and Polish lawmakers in Warsaw. The...

Israel on Monday lashed out at Russia over “unforgivable” comments by its foreign minister about Nazism and antisemitism — including claims that Adolf Hitler was Jewish. Israel, which summoned the Russian ambassador in response, said the remarks blamed Jews for their own murder in the Holocaust...