Serena Williams overcame a wobbly start to defeat Russian teen Anastasia Potapova and move into the Australian Open fourth round, afterwards being asked what “love” meant to her in a cringey post-match exchange. Read Full Article at...

Water levels along the Mekong River have fallen ‘considerably’ since the start of the year, decreasing to “worryingly” low levels, after China reduced outflow from the Jinghong Dam, the river’s governing body said. Read Full A...

The world’s largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, crossed $900 billion in market valuation on Friday for the first time in history, as the digital asset’s price hit new record highs. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Japanese government has given a cabinet minister the task of addressing concerns about an increase in social isolation among the population, which has been linked to an uptick in suicides. Read Full Article at RT.com

Fresh economic sanctions under consideration in Brussels could lead to Russia deciding to walk away from dealings with the European Union altogether, the country’s foreign minister has said in comments broadcast on Friday. Read Full A...

The UK economy suffered the biggest contraction on record, in 2020, experiencing an unprecedented slump in economic and business activity after a series of lockdowns imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Pep Guardiola has challenged former club Bayern Munich after they picked up a remarkable ‘sextuple’ of titles, matching the feat achieved by Guardiola’s iconic Barcelona team of 2009. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori has stepped down from his role, again apologizing for making sexist remarks about women “talking too much” that caused a major international scandal. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia's military may soon have a new state of-the-art Unmanned Combat Ground Vehicle for use in combat, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as for providing vital engineering and logistics support to troops in the field. Read Full...

The founder of Project Veritas has fired shots at Twitter for letting CNN get away with a 2018 ambushing of a Trump supporter in her home, but taking down the watchdog’s account for allegedly violating its ‘anti-doxxing’ policy. R...

Some Covid-19 measures imposed by the Czech government are expected to be lifted after the country’s parliament refused to extend a state of emergency that provided a legal framework for the restrictions. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Jailed opposition activist Alexey Navalny returned to a Moscow court on Friday morning facing charges that he defamed a World War II veteran after calling him a traitor. The case was adjourned last week after a day of drama. Read Full A...

Khamzat Chimaev's scheduled UFC Fight Night main event bout against Leon Edwards on March 13 is off due to the lingering effects of Covid-19 suffered by the Russian-born Swedish fighter. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Australian state of Victoria will enter a new five-day lockdown due to the discovery of a new cluster of Covid-19 cases, its premier said. The capital, Melbourne, endured one of the world’s harshest lockdowns last year. Read Full ...

A senior aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has reportedly owned up to concealing the state’s nursing home data amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying the numbers would have fueled attacks from then-president Donald Trump. Read Ful...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's use of an animated rap video to urge black people to get Covid-19 vaccines has gone down like a lead balloon, getting ratioed on Twitter and called "insulting," "racist" and "condescending." Read Full Ar...

New York City mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang has vowed to transform the Big Apple into a hub for cryptocurrencies if he is elected, as bitcoin soared to a new high after America’s oldest bank said it would deal in the digital token. Read...

Radio host and financial pundit Dave Ramsey set off a bout of controversy after arguing that those relying on stimulus checks amid the Covid-19 pandemic were “already screwed” and may suffer from mental issues. Read Full Article at ...

Two Buffalo, New York police officers escaped criminal charges for shoving an elderly man during last year’s George Floyd protests. Their indictment for breaking his skull prompted the resignation of the city’s riot police unit. Rea...

Hackers have reportedly sold off the source code of CD Projekt’s ‘The Witcher 3’ and ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ titles, after attempting to hold the Polish video game developer and publisher to ransom. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Kenosha, Wisconsin judge has declined a request from prosecutors for a fresh arrest warrant for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen accused of killing two people at a protest last year, whose lawyer claims he’s been forced into hiding. Read ...

The app founded to share cute photos is now using AI to censor “hate speech” in direct messages, enforcing an Anglo-American notion of banning the ever-increasing expanse of unapproved thoughts on the rest of the planet. Read Full A...

Turkey won't abandon the S-400 missile systems it ordered from Russia despite the threat of US sanctions, but is eager to resolve the divisive issue through talks with its NATO ally, the Turkish presidential spokesman has said. Read Ful...

The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is reportedly poised to resume buying land in the West Bank after a five-decade hiatus, clearing the way to speed settlement developments amid the threat of US opposition under President Joe Biden. Read Fu...

Facebook has patted itself on the back for nuking almost all “hate speech” that supposedly violated its rules. But not only was most content deleted before anyone could flag it, users weren’t even allowed to appeal most deletions....

The US has slapped a raft of sanctions on Myanmar’s top military to block their access to more than a billion dollars in government funds being held in America, and will redirect millions in US aid to “strengthen civil society.” R...

Conservative watchdog group Project Veritas has been banned from Twitter, hours after one of its tweets was blacklisted. The suspension came after Project Veritas revealed some of Facebook’s censorship mechanisms. Read Full Article at...

The BBC has expressed its disappointment over the removal of its international World News channel from the air in China, while the UK's foreign secretary blasted the move as an "unacceptable curtailing of media freedom." Read Full Artic...

After three diplomats were kicked out of Russia for taking part in rallies in support of opposition figure Alexey Navalny, Moscow’s representative to the EU believes it’s unimaginable that Russian officials would do the same. Read F...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that he will leave his post, once and for all, if protests subside and the unrest which has gripped the country since his disputed election victory last year comes to an end. Read Fu...

What do you get if combine the spot-kick abilities of the David Luiz run-up, the Jorginho hop and the Paul Pogba shuffle technique? The answer is an absolute abomination of a penalty, as Palmeiras' Rony has discovered. Read Full Article...

The Portuguese government has extended the country’s Covid-19 lockdown until March 1 as it battles to relieve pressure on the healthcare system, with hospitals under more strain than at any previous time in the pandemic. Read Full Art...

It is sometimes said that the fight game is 'no country for old men' and after Frankie Edgar's shocking knockout defeat to Cory Sandhagen last weekend, Khabib Nurmagomedov thinks the veteran should consider hanging up his gloves. Read F...

Melbourne bookshop Readings has backtracked after being pressured into making an apology over a 2018 appearance by feminist author Julie Bindel. The apology was demanded by a non-binary author before a Zoom reading. Read Full Article at...

A loophole used by the German authorities and Google to put a government health website ahead of others in search results represented unfair competition and threatened freedom of the press, a Munich court has ruled. Read Full Article at...

Scientists investigating Covid-19 ‘super-spreaders’ – those who transmit SARS-CoV-2 at a rate roughly four times higher than average – have uncovered additional characteristics that afford patients this grim ‘superpower.’ Re...

Russia’s navy ships have arrived in Pakistan to take part in the multinational exercise AMAN-2021. The drills are expected to see China and several NATO nations in attendance. Read Full Article at RT.com

A pair of Romanian match officials will reportedly not face racism charges from UEFA but are still being investigated over the incident which caused PSG and Istanbul Basaksehir players to storm off in a Champions League match. Read Full...

Police in Denmark and Germany have arrested seven people for allegedly trying to manufacture explosives and plotting terrorist attacks, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said in a statement on Thursday. Read Full Articl...

Spanish tennis legend Rafael Nadal gracefully coped with a rather awkward situation during his Australian Open second-round match, simply smiling at a fan who showed him the middle finger from the stands. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The UK’s national auditor says the government doesn’t know where vital gloves, gowns and masks used to safeguard medics against Covid-19 are stored - and the missing personal protective equipment (PPE) is worth billions of pounds. R...

Local authorities in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh have asked the government to stop sending doses of the country's homegrown Covid-19 vaccine until proper efficacy data for the jab has been provided. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Twitter has reportedly locked conservative watchdog group Project Veritas and its founder, James O’Keefe, out of their accounts after they released a video confronting a Facebook official on his platform’s hate speech policies. Read...

BBC World News has been banned from the Chinese airwaves, Beijing’s state-controlled TV network announced. The tit-for-tat move comes after the UK media regulator, Ofcom, revoked the broadcast license of the Chinese CGTN network. Read...

In a highly unexpected result, pigs showed unexpected behavioral agility and mental flexibility, learning to play a joystick-controlled video game typically reserved for experiments with primates. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK prime minister’s spokesperson has expressed disappointment over the EU’s failure to acknowledge the “shock and anger” in Northern Ireland sparked by the bloc’s decision to trigger Article 16 over the Covid-19 vaccine ro...

An emotional Neymar has reacted after being ruled out of Paris Saint-Germain's Champions League last 16 first leg against Barcelona next week, with the injured Brazilian star facing up to four weeks on the sidelines. Read Full Article a...

Health officials in the African Union (AU) have said states without the South African strain of Covid-19 should use AstraZeneca’s vaccine, insisting the bloc was not abandoning the jab, in spite on concerns about its efficacy. Read Fu...

Moscow must adopt a policy of containment toward the United States to prevent Washington's attempts to interfere in its domestic affairs. That's according to Sergey Ryabkov, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

When Laura Daudova told her husband she was pregnant with twins after years of trying for a baby, he was delighted. But, months later, that joy turned to shock and sorrow for the presumed father-to-be and their family. Read Full Article...

Despite smugly taking credit for his NBA franchise the Dallas Mavericks cancelling The Star-Spangled Banner before home games, owner Mark Cuban has now shockingly claimed plausible deniability and denied he instigated the ban. Read Full...

US unemployment numbers remain perilously high following the inauguration of President Biden, who has promised to “shut down” Covid-19 without shutting down the economy even as jobless benefits for millions are poised to expire. Rea...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has stressed that actions, not words, are important to Tehran, and is urging President Biden to act on his rhetoric and completely abandon Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy against Iran. Read Ful...

Just one month after his first dismissal in Barcelona colors, Lionel Messi was accused of avoiding another red card as the referee gave the Argentine the benefit of the doubt after he appeared to catch an opponent with his elbow. Read F...

In a move that can further harm Russia-EU bilateral ties, some European officials are threatening Russia with new punitive measures over jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny. Read Full Article at RT.com

Shares of several Canadian cannabis producers continued to soar on Thursday, spurred by a wave of legalization in major US states and the Reddit trading community behind the recent GameStop trading frenzy. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

When the Professional Fighters League (PFL) finally returns later this year it will have a new addition to the women’s lightweight ranks as Julija Pajic steps into the fray to chase the $1 million prize on offer. Read Full Article at ...

Researchers think they may have stumbled upon a “game changer” drug which can achieve weight loss effects in obese people that were hitherto only possible through surgical intervention. Read Full Article at RT.com

American fighter pilots and paratroopers could soon be getting better views of the scenic Russian south, under plans by Ukraine to invite NATO nations’ warplanes to fly close to its border with the disputed Crimean peninsula. Read Ful...

UK media regulator Ofcom is investigating a classic movies channel for broadcasting a 1970s series featuring blackface. The channel has fallen foul of censors before, but refuses to scrub outdated language from its programming. Read Ful...

Police have raided the home of Austrian finance minister Gernot Bluemel, a party ally of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, as part of an anti-corruption investigation into the conservative People's Party (OVP). Read Full Article at RT.com ...

TikTok has become the first digital entertainment platform to partner UEFA Euro 2020, aiming to be a platform for fans to share their experiences at the tournament, and which will also see UEFA launch its own TikTok account. Read Full A...

US state-run broadcaster RFE/RL has been fined 11 million rubles ($150,000) by a Russian court after failing to declare on its network of websites that they are registered as “foreign agents” – a requirement by law. Read Full Arti...

Paris Saint-Germain face an anxious wait on the fitness of star man Neymar ahead of their Champions League showdown with Barcelona after the Brazilian was forced off injured during Wednesday's Coupe de France clash with Caen. Read Full ...

A drop in new Covid-19 infections across Europe should not give people a “false sense of security”, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) regional chief has warned, adding that the spread of new variants is a cause for concern. Re...

At least 20 Israeli nationals, including individuals in the defense industry, have been detained as part of an investigation into illegal weapons sales to an unspecified Asian country, security officials have announced. Read Full Articl...

Two-time world champion ski-jumper Juliane Seyfarth has taken off her sports outfit to pose naked for the March issue of German Playboy magazine. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed that the Kremlin asked Paris for evidence that opposition figure Alexey Navalny was poisoned, but French President Emmanuel Macron refused to provide it. Read Full Article at RT.com

While half of the population has remained largely unaffected, a significant part has been hit hard by the pandemic, with many people forced to resort to food banks, a survey by the UK’s financial regulator has revealed. Read Full Arti...

The Washington Football Team have reached a financial settlement with several of their former cheerleaders who were recorded in 'lewd videos' without their knowledge during swimsuit calendar photoshoots in more than ten years ago. Read ...

A new study from Canada has found that the risk of death from Covid-19 is three-and-a-half times higher than the threat posed by influenza, while also dispelling the myth that the disease tends not to affect younger people. Read Full Ar...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced this week that allowing transgender female athletes to compete against women in schools sports would "destroy women's sports" as controversial legislation deeming the practice "unfair" advances. Read Fu...

India’s technology minister has lashed out at social media giants, accusing them of double standards and urging them to follow the country’s laws. The row comes after Twitter refused to take down posts on Indian farmers' protests. R...

One of the world’s largest gas pipelines, currently under construction, is good for more than just cheap fuel, the German Foreign Minister has said. It’s also one of the last remaining political ties between Russia and the West. Rea...

A group of academics has protested against a draft proposal by the Scottish authorities to replace biological sex with gender identity when collecting census data, arguing the change would spell disaster for researchers. Read Full Artic...

Teenagers in Scotland will be asked to self-test for Covid-19 twice weekly to allow schools to reopen safely on February 22, to identify those who are asymptomatic and contain the spread of the virus before an outbreak can occur. Read F...

The Hungarian government has announced that a shipment of 500,000 Chinese Covid-19 jabs will arrive in the country next week, as Budapest looks to distance itself from Brussels’ stuttering vaccination program. Read Full Article at RT....

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany didn’t go far nor fast enough in locking down to prevent a second wave of coronavirus last autumn, and told parliament it is only a matter of time before mutant strains become dominant. Read F...

Nigeria’s central bank has ordered banks to close the accounts of all cryptocurrency users, warning of "severe regulatory sanctions." The ban comes as bitcoin penetration in the country is the second highest in the world. Read Full Ar...

The president of Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Yoshiro Mori, will step down in the wake of a sexism row he became embroiled in after saying that women talk too much during meetings. Read Full Article at RT.com

Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, birthplace of the atomic bomb and critical US nuclear weapons production facility, remains under threat from wildfires despite several high profile, expensive blazes in recent decades. Read ...

Ireland’s prime minister has said that both London and European Union member states need to “dial down the rhetoric” and return to constructive dialogue in order to overcome challenges relating to the Northern Ireland Protocol. Re...

The Biden administration should back off from the confrontation with Beijing, as targeting Chinese companies have not only proved ineffective, but may also backfire on US businesses, Professor Richard Wolff believes. Read Full Article a...

On Friday, Alexey Navalny is back in court, this time accused of defaming an elderly military veteran. You might say Russia is overly sensitive about such issues, but a similar case in Britain shows it’s hardly an outlier. Read Full A...

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady looks to have relaxed his famously strict 'TB12 Diet' as he celebrated winning his SEVENTH Super Bowl by throwing the famous Lombardi Trophy to teammates across the Hillsborough River. Read Ful...

The uptake of the coronavirus vaccine in the UK has been better than expected, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. He expressed “confidence” that the government will meet its deadline for vaccinating vulnerable groups. R...

Moscow’s diplomats in Washington have reacted furiously to the latest in a series of military drills carried out by American sailors off Russia’s southern coast, which is almost 9,000km away from the US mainland. Read Full Article a...

The head of the UK’s genetic surveillance program, Sharon Peacock, has warned that the Covid-19 variant detected in Kent is “going to sweep the world,” becoming the most dominant strain of the virus. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Researchers using the joint Russian-European ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter have detected water vapor ascending to the upper atmosphere of Mars, adding further to the body of evidence that the Red Planet was once partially blue. Read Full Ar...

The United States has sold more than a million barrels of Iranian fuel seized under its sanctions program last year, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing the US Department of Justice. Read Full Article at RT.com

Carlo Ancelotti is renowned as one of the coolest customers in football so it was perhaps little surprise that the Everton boss was unmoved despite his team snatching a dramatic winner in an FA Cup thriller against Spurs. Read Full Arti...

A 60-year-old woman had died in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, becoming the second confirmed Ebola fatality in a week amid fears of a new epidemic after an earlier outbreak was declared 'over' in November. Read Full Art...

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have already died of Covid-19. Despite this, the country’s government has announced a new ban on safe and efficacious vaccines that could potentially put an end to the deadly pandemic. Read Full Article...

Credit card major Mastercard will begin allowing clients to make payments in certain cryptocurrencies on its network this year, becoming the latest major corporation to embrace digital coins. Read Full Article at RT.com

The West’s mistake with Russia was expecting it to Westernize without any prospect of integration into Western institutions. NATO and the EU wanted a say in Moscow’s affairs while denying it a voice in broader European issues. Read ...

Anger over proposed legislation that would ramp up security at Greek universities spilled over into the streets of Athens, as activists tossed Molotov cocktails during pitched battles with police. Read Full Article at RT.com

India and China have agreed to pull back troops from the contested border in the western Himalayas, the Indian defense minister has said. The disengagement, reached after painstaking talks, has started from the Pangong lake area. Read F...

Oil prices could go as high as $100 a barrel next year on the back of “very easy monetary policy” and reflation trade, Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects, told Bloomberg in an interview. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Social media users have sharpened their pitchforks after it was revealed that Lucasfilm axed ‘Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano. Conservatives claim she was wrongfully ‘canceled’ from the show due to her political beliefs. Read Full...

Facebook has taken down the Instagram page of former president John F. Kennedy’s nephew – a prominent vaccine critic with 800,000 subscribers. The tech giant has recently stepped up its offensive on what it deems Covid-19 disinfo. R...