The price of crude surged nearly 4% on Friday, following a decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allied producers (OPEC+) to add more than two million barrels per day to the market by July. Read Full ...

The Chinese border city of Ruili has launched a mass vaccination campaign, seeking to inoculate its entire population in just a five-day period. The drive follows a local Covid-19 outbreak, with tens of cases having been detected. Read ...

Three people were reportedly arrested in Paris on Thursday, after one of them tried to scale the gates of the residence of President Emmanuel Macron, carrying a bottle of flammable liquid. Read Full Article at RT.com

Chinese smartphone-maker Xiaomi was ridiculed online after it unveiled a new version of its company logo, which surprisingly looks almost identical to the old one. Read Full Article at RT.com

A poll of Russian doctors has revealed that 69% trust the safety and efficacy of the country’s domestic Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, a significant rise from a previous survey that indicated a majority wouldn’t take it. Read Full Arti...

Harsh winters are always bad news for energy consumers. But they are good news for those that produce the energy that consumers use. Read Full Article at RT.com

An Italian restaurant owner who was blacklisted by the Trump administration is now in good standing with Washington, after the businessman was erroneously sanctioned by the US in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Read Full Article ...

Dutch lawmakers voted to formally censure caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte after he narrowly survived a no-confidence motion, accusing the embattled leader of lying about a future political appointment. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

At least 36 people have reportedly been killed and dozens injured and trapped, after a train derailed in eastern Taiwan, with multiple cars coming off their tracks and careening into a tunnel wall, local officials say. Read Full Article...

Four Los Angeles families have sued the teachers union and the second-largest US school district for failing their duty to serve the interests of students, depriving their children of in-person learning by keeping schools closed. Read F...

As the Biden administration insists on double-masking indefinitely and funding a design for new, better face coverings, Americans yearning to breathe free once the coronavirus pandemic is over may need to think again. Read Full Article ...

Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, has conceded that Covid-19 lockdowns can't go on forever and won't eliminate the virus anyway – a view that might have helped before Britons endured months of draconian restrictions. Re...

Sweden’s space agency has called off a geoengineering experiment to determine whether blotting out the sun with aerosols could reverse global warming. Funded by Bill Gates, the project stoked fierce opposition from eco groups. Read Fu...

A lawyer defending Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell is arguing that she should be treated as well as Harvey Weinstein and other wealthy men who were granted bail after being charged with sex crimes. Read Full Article at RT.c...

A federal judge has ordered a Brooklyn company to cease shipping its ‘Satan Shoes,’ pairs of modified sneakers containing human blood. Unfortunately for Nike, the beastly brogues have already been sold – and may have been shipped....

A “festival” at Bois de la Cambre in Brussels began as an April Fools' prank on social media, and ended with police using tear gas and water cannon to disperse several thousand partygoers defying the Covid-19 lockdown. Read Full Art...

Hundreds of Native Americans and environmental activists gathered in Washington, DC to protest against the Dakota Access and Line 3 pipelines, calling on Joe Biden to cancel it and pour resources into solar energy instead. Read Full Art...

A senior Haredi rabbi has reportedly given his backing to a potential Israeli government alliance with the United Arab List party, which has now become a potential kingmaker after Israel's inconclusive election this March. Read Full Art...

Lawyers representing slain Minneapolis man George Floyd have argued that his high fentanyl tolerance meant he would have survived the drugs found in his system, had ex-officer Derek Chauvin not knelt on his neck. Read Full Article at RT...

President Joe Biden has encouraged Major League Baseball to go ahead and pull out of Georgia in response to the state’s new election security law. What happened to all that unity he promised?, conservatives wondered. Read Full Article...

A man is reportedly facing trial after getting drunk, climbing over a security fence and making his way into the National Counterterrorism Center in Virginia. He claims he was looking for a place to stay – only to get arrested. Read F...

UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz says Jon Jones moved to heavyweight because he knows he’d lose to Legendary Polish Power and insists he’s ready to meet the former 205 lbs king in either weight class. Read Full Article ...

Representatives of Iran, China, Russia, France, Germany and Britain will hold talks on Friday to discuss the return of the US to the 2015 nuclear deal and Tehran's compliance to the accord, the EU said in a statement on Thursday. Read F...

Joe Rogan's Spotify podcast - which is one of the most popular shows in the world - should be canceled for perceived and repeated "transphobic" comments, says transgender retired MMA fighter Fallon Fox. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

An “insider” video leaked to Project Veritas shows migrants at the US-Mexico border apparently being held in a fenced-off area under a bridge, the latest evidence that the Biden administration faces a dire immigration crisis. Read F...

Orange, California police have identified the man they say fatally shot four people, including a nine-year-old child, saying he knew the victims either personally or via the business he apparently attacked. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The world’s top oil producers, known collectively as OPEC+, have agreed to increase output from May to July in expectation of a rise in demand as the global economy recovers from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read Full Article ...

Three years after the alt-right rally held to defend a Confederate statue in Charlottesville led to the death of counter-protester Heather Heyer, Virginia’s Supreme Court has ordered that statue and a neighbor must come down. Read Ful...

First Lady Jill Biden raised some eyebrows when she spoke in front of an ominous-looking red, white, and black eagle flag. Though the flag didn’t originate in Nazi Germany, it was reportedly inspired by Third Reich aesthetics. Read Fu...

Utah Jazz stars have spoken of their horror when the charter flight they were traveling on was forced into an emergency landing when an engine fire broke out after the aircraft hit a flock of birds. Read Full Article at RT.com

Washington’s involvement in the violent overthrow of the democratically elected government of Chile in September 1973 is by this point well known. The pivotal role played by Brazil has not been as clear until now. Read Full Article at...

The COVAX program to ensure that Covid-19 vaccines are distributed fairly among poorer nations is facing a serious shortfall, the World Health Organization chief has said, after he urged countries to hand over millions more doses. Read ...

On April Fools’ Day, our normally straight-faced media and institutions let their hair down and tell a few good-natured fibs. But why would they need a special day, when they peddle such high-grade nonsense year-round? Read Full Artic...

Olympic silver medalist kayaker Nathan Baggaley and his younger brother Dru have been found guilty of taking part in a failed plot to import 650 kilograms of cocaine worth AU$200 million (US$152 million) into Australia. Read Full Articl...

Texas Rangers executive Jon Daniels has hit out at US president Joe Biden after he was critical of the MLB team for hosting fans in their stadium this season amid accusations that the move could lead to spate of Covid cases. Read Full A...

Pfizer and BioNTech stated on Thursday that their jointly developed Covid-19 vaccine is highly effective in combating the South African variant of the virus, according to the company’s latest phase-three trial data. Read Full Article ...

Researchers from Purdue University and Sparta Biopharma claim to have created a device which will dramatically reduce torn rotator cuff recovery, improving the lives of professional athletes and the elderly alike. Read Full Article at R...

Representatives for Borussia Dortmund sensation Erling Haaland will meet with a host of top clubs interested in signing the 20-year-old star before deciding on his future, according to reports. Read Full Article at RT.com

You might have regrets about casual sex, but those nagging second thoughts are not enough to make most people change their behavior or prevent them from jumping into another one-night stand, researchers have found. Read Full Article at ...

The French government has condemned a Turkish group over its refusal to sign a charter targeting Islamist extremism, declaring it has no place in France, but stopped short of actually banning it. Read Full Article at RT.com

India’s decision to postpone major exports of locally made AstraZeneca jab could have a “catastrophic” impact on Africa, a top health official has warned, expressing hope the delays won’t turn into a permanent ban. Read Full Art...

Diplomats serving in North Korea are enduring a shortage of goods and a lack of medicine, as restrictions to battle the Covid-19 pandemic have caused the already-secretive country to isolate itself even more than before. Read Full Artic...

The decision to allow imports of sugar, cotton and wheat from India, seen as a sign of thawing in relations between Islamabad and New Delhi, has been deferred by Pakistan and tied to the status of the disputed Kashmir region. Read Full ...

With the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline nearing completion and US sanctions against contractors failing to stop its construction, its operator has reported an increased “provocative” activity of warships in the area. Read ...

Technology shares, led by chipmakers, have seen major gains as investors’ sentiment lifted on strong optimism about US economic growth, along with a buoyant earnings outlook by US computer chip maker Micron. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Former UFC women's bantamweight champion Miesha Tate is one of the most successful female fighters on the planet but ahead of her comeback to the UFC, she says that holding the world title can take quite a toll on an athlete. Read Full ...

President of the Russian Figure Skating Federation Alexander Gorshkov has hit back at critics who claimed that Russia’s leading positions in women’s events were mainly attributed to banned medicine used by young skaters. Read Full A...

Spanish astronomers say they have completed the most accurate picture yet of the Milky Way and have discovered a huge new hidden structure made up of massive blue stars spanning 10,000 light-years. Read Full Article at RT.com

Firefighters can sometimes be called upon to rescue cats stranded in trees but one off-duty ladderman went above and beyond the call when he removed a massive swarm of bees which had hijacked a man’s car. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Croatian tennis player Oleksandra Oliynykova has fetched the equivalent of more than $5,000 after selling off part of her right arm as an NFT digital collectible – claiming the new owner could make their money back 100 times over. Rea...

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss surveillance capitalism – “the panopticon built by private corporations” – which is collecting and selling the data of their customers. Read Full Article at RT.com

Verizon has announced the deployment of a 5G mobile network in the Port of Southampton, under its first private contract in Europe – a move that has been hailed as a “fantastic milestone” by the UK’s leading port operator. Read ...

NBC anchor Lester Holt has stirred up some serious social media drama after arguing that the media has no obligation to give two sides to each story. Read Full Article at RT.com

Chinese tech giant Huawei, which has been central to the tech battle between the world’s two biggest economies, managed to post a record profit in 2020, despite being on the US' export blacklist and facing the Covid-19 pandemic. Read ...

Multiple-weight boxing world champion and Filipino senator Manny Pacquaio has issued a furious rebuke of a series of attacks against the elderly Asian community in the United States, calling on perpetrators to "fight me instead". Read F...

PC Benjamin Hannam has become the first UK officer to be convicted of a terrorism offence after a court ruled he lied on his Met Police application about his membership of the outlawed Neo-Nazi group National Action (NA). Read Full Arti...

A UN team has alleged that a controversial private military contractor, brought in by the embattled government of the Central African Republic, is behind a series of troubling and violent attacks in the civil-war-wracked nation. Read Fu...

The expulsion of some European diplomats during a formal EU visit to Russia was an aggressive act and contrary to the principles of diplomacy. That's according to Josep Borrell, the bloc's High Representative for Foreign Affairs. Read F...

Opposition parties have tabled a vote of no confidence against Rutte, just two weeks after the election, claiming the leader lied about a potential political appointment. Read Full Article at RT.com

Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains detained since the recent coup began, could be unaware of the ongoing turmoil in the country that might be facing an “imminent bloodbath,” according to the UN. Read Full Articl...

The Biden administration has formed an eclectic coalition of sports teams, advocacy groups, and other prominent voices as part of an information offensive aimed at drumming up enthusiasm for the country’s vaccination program. Read Ful...

Google has canceled its usual April Fools’ pranks for a second year in a row, citing the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic. It will still celebrate the much less entertaining “international fact-checking day” on April 2. Rea...

Seven leading Hong Kong activists face five years in prison after being convicted for organizing an unauthorized assembly during the 2019 anti-government protests that brought the region to a standstill for months.  Read Full Article a...

With most things in life, timing is everything, and new research has uncovered the part of the brain responsible for the volume and duration of verbal sound, which may improve our understanding of socially dysfunctional behavior. Read F...

Erling Haaland, arguably the world football's most in-demand young property, has ignited rumors that he may be set for a move to the Camp Nou this summer as his agent Mino Raiola meets with new Barca president Joan Laporta. Read Full Ar...

The Covid pandemic has led to an upswing in gun sales, researchers in the US report, with half of all victims of domestic violence saying they now face more threats of being shot by their abusers than before it began. Read Full Article ...

Poland became the latest team to disregard the act of taking a knee prior to their World Cup qualifier against England on Wednesday, with the country's football chief saying continuing to do so was their 'last topic of interest'. Read ...

In March, factory activity in the euro area reached a record 24-year high, according to a business survey carried out by the research firm IHS Markit. Read Full Article at RT.com

Street protests broke out in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on Wednesday evening, after news that prominent Russian TV host Vladimir Pozner had arrived in the country. Now, Moscow is warning its citizens that Georgia isn’t safe. Read ...

Russian skydiving champion Anastasia Barannik has shot to internet fame after showing her mind-blowing sky dances, which include some insane acrobatic elements all performed while airborne. Read Full Article at RT.com

Spain were accused of taking a subtle swipe at Kosovo – which they don’t recognize as an independent country – by failing to capitalize the name of their opponents during a World Cup qualifying clash on Wednesday night. Read Full ...

The Russian government is making plans to turn the Northern Sea Route into an alternative to the Suez Canal, with the country’s deputy prime minister revealing that state subsidies could be used to reduce transportation costs. Read Fu...

The Bank of England has been targeted by climate activists, who claim it failed to regulate the funding of the fossil-fuels industry, which is contributing to the current “ecological crisis”. Read Full Article at RT.com

Moscow has rejected claims that it is unwilling to participate in talks with NATO, arguing instead that it would be eager to hold a summit, but only if it sticks to topics that are actually within the US-led military bloc’s remit. Rea...

Papua New Guinea’s health minister, Jelta Wong, criticized Facebook on Thursday, claiming the spread of disinformation on the site poses the “biggest challenge” to tackling rising cases of Covid-19 in the country. Read Full Articl...

The Dutch government wants to run a ‘practical test’ to investigate how to hold large events in a ‘safe and responsible manner’ by allowing 3,500 people to attend the Eurovision in May, the contest organizers have confirmed.  R...

The Los Angeles County sheriff has announced that they have determined the cause of the crash which led to Tiger Woods flipping his SUV last month - but have refused to reveal specific details, citing privacy concerns. Read Full Article...

The US dollar’s share of currency reserves plunged in the final quarter of 2020 to its lowest in 25 years, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) data. Analysts say the drop was due in part to valuation adjustments. Read Full ...

Former Good Morning Britain co-host Piers Morgan penned a tongue-in-cheek update revealing that he had been given his old job back, with many social media users falling victim to what appears to be an April Fool’s jest. Read Full Arti...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has labeled Europe’s rollout of Covid-19 vaccines as “unacceptably slow,” warning delays are “prolonging the pandemic” and described a surge in new infections in the region as “worrying.�...

Only half of Britons know the main symptoms of Covid-19, and most don’t get tested or self-isolate, a new study has shown, raising questions about the UK’s Test and Trace system and placing emergence from the pandemic at risk. Read ...

With champagne on tap, sweeping Black Sea views and even an underwater disco, ‘Trump Palace Gelendzhik’ could become the hottest ticket in town for Russia’s glamor-loving partygoers – once construction work is finally completed....

France’s health minister has registered his optimism that the country will reach the peak of the epidemic within 10 days and that things will look a lot better in May, but the PM’s assessment remains grim. Read Full Article at RT.co...

The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) has called on the government to urgently implement a two-week Covid-19 lockdown, as the country’s health systems risk hitting capacity. Read Ful...

The British Parliament’s most enthusiastic Russia-basher wants UK intelligence services to formally instruct MPs on alleged “foreign propaganda.” His odd biography for an SNP representative and deep state links make it notable. Re...

They failed to meet inside the octagon despite five attempts to do so, but the rivalry between former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson is still simmering as much as ever. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The state-owned authority operating the Suez Canal is to offer a discount to those ships left stranded after traffic in the narrow but vital sea route was snarled up by a gigantic container ship that ran aground. Read Full Article at RT...

A new study conducted by Intensive Care Unit (ICU) specialists at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital has found that, contrary to popular narratives, race did not factor into treatment outcomes for Covid-19 patients. Read Full Article at RT...

A new research paper has found that, in a deep part of the Black Sea known as the Danube fan, the gas hydrate system has yet to adapt to warmer conditions since the last Ice Age, which ended around 12,000 years ago. Read Full Article at...

Banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs is close to offering its first investment vehicles for bitcoin and other digital assets to clients of its private wealth management group, CNBC reported, citing an internal company memo. Read Full Articl...

Seoul has announced it will issue digital certificates verifying a person’s Covid-19 vaccination status, becoming the latest nation to adopt the controversial measure as a means to reopen cross-border travel. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Chelsea forward Timo Werner was guilty of another glaring miss as Germany suffered a first defeat in World Cup qualifying for 20 years as Joachim Low’s beleaguered team lost to minnows North Macedonia. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A single-shot Covid-19 vaccine by CanSino Biologics has shown a decrease in efficacy over time, the manufacturer has said. Getting a “booster shot” six months after the first jab, however, propels its efficacy to over 90%. Read Full...

Russian world number two Daniil Medvedev obliterated his racket not once but twice on the way to defeat against Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut in their Miami Open quarter-final. Read Full Article at RT.com

A Los Angeles-based jeweler has unveiled a necklace featuring a digital screen that displays non-fungible tokens (NFTs), as enthusiasm for blockchain-based art continues to grow. Not everyone thought it was a cool flex, though. Read Ful...

US liquefied natural gas has the potential to be vital geopolitical tool for the US, and a key part of its energy future, but the emissions associated with the fuel may become a problem. Read Full Article at RT.com

A North Carolina police officer who was caught in viral footage beating and body-slamming his own K-9 companion has left the force, stepping down on his own accord after the department took action to have him fired. Read Full Article at...

Four people are dead after a gunman opened fire at an office complex in Orange, California, with a child believed to be among the victims. One police officer exchanged gunfire with the suspect, who was injured in the shootout. Read Full...

Harvard University, long accused of discriminating against Asians in its admissions policies, is apologizing after botching its campaign to fight anti-Asian racism by presuming students may feel ashamed of their own ethnicity. Read Full...

NASA has apparently updated its popular Mars project page after Chinese newspapers lashed out at the US space agency over an “unforgivable” mistake of including Taiwan as a country in a dropdown menu and hinted at consequences. Read...