Mikhail Gorbachev, who helped end Cold War, dies aged 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, who helped to end the Cold War and was the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91, Russian news agencies reported, citing medical sources. “Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and long illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow said late on Tuesday, as quoted by the Interfax news agency.