Venezuela on a knife-edge as polls close in election which could end socialist rule

Opinion polls suggest president Nicolás Maduro is facing possible defeat against little-known ex-diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia Venezuela's future was on a knife-edge on Sunday night after millions of voters headed to the polls to choose a new president and potentially end 25 years of socialist rule amid a historic economic and humanitarian meltdown. A quarter of a century after the paratrooper turned left-wing icon Hugo Chávez was democratically elected in 1998, opinion polls suggested th...