Melissa Gray

It’s the annual festival of beer known the world over, and this year, Germany’s Oktoberfest turns 200.

The World Health Organization endorsed a new, rapid test for tuberculosis Wednesday that cuts the diagnosis time for patients from months to hours.

Buildings were burning at a prison in southern England on Saturday, more than 12 hours after prisoners started a riot by smashing windows and setting fires.

Dick Ebersol resigned Thursday as chairman of the NBC Sports Group after 22 years, a move that may put in doubt the network’s broadcasting of future Olympic Games.

The document signed by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln that started the Civil War is up for sale, valued at nearly a million dollars.

Holy backlash, Batman!

A tiger at an Oklahoma zoo bit a female employee’s arm Saturday after she broke protocol by sticking her hand inside the animal’s cage, the zoo owner said.

Virginia authorities say they have found no link between Jesse Matthew, suspected of killing UVA student Hannah Graham, and the 2013 murder of a teenager.

In Amtrak derailment investigation, NTSB taps FBI experts to investigate whether a mark found on the windshield of the train was made by hurled projectile.

In Amtrak derailment investigation, NTSB taps FBI experts to determine whether a mark found on the windshield of the train was made by hurled projectile.

The suspect in the attack on Dallas Police headquarters had a record of domestic violence and a history of custody issues, Chief David Brown said Saturday.

The Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes and ground operations on Houthi rebel targets Saturday, a day after the rebels killed dozens of coalition troops in an attack on a weapons storage depot, a Saudi military spokesman said.

British police say they are investigating an unprovoked knife attack in a London Tube station, which left a man with serious injuries, as a terrorist incident.

After a fatal listeria outbreak prompted a nationwide recall, Blue Bell ice cream says better testing of its facilities turns up a potential listeria presence.

Three people have been charged in the death of British pilot Roger Gower, whose helicopter was shot down by suspected elephant poachers in Tanzania.

Police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said Sunday the killings of two black men in separate incidents last week are linked and may have been racially motivated.

Fifteen people were injured Sunday when a fire broke out on a shuttle boat taking passengers to a casino boat near New Port Richey, Florida, north of Tampa.

A woman died and 15 people were injured when a fire broke out on a shuttle boat taking passengers to a casino boat near New Port Richey, Florida, north of Tampa.

Days after five members of the same family were killed in a California crash, investigators are still looking for three of the family’s missing children, including Devonte Hart, who appeared in a viral photo in 2014.

Roald Dahl, the author of children’s classics such as “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” believed in stories that enthralled young readers, getting them to love books for a lifetime.