An official working for Japan's national Olympic organization has apparently ended his own life in the Tokyo Metro system, a report says. The Olympic Games are set to kick off in Japan's capital next month. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Marvel Comics has introduced a new character inspired by Captain America, but the Filipino-American shieldbearer has left some puzzled – in one of the archipelago’s native languages, her name means ‘genitals’. Read Full Article ...

Bangkok has started its mass vaccination campaign against Covid-19, with the government aiming to inoculate six million people in June alone, as a third wave surges and now accounts for 80% of all cases since the pandemic began. Read Fu...

Bilateral trade between Russia and China saw significant growth in the first five months of the current year, the latest data from China’s General Administration of Customs shows. Read Full Article at RT.com

Demonstrators gathered outside the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, NYC, demanding the firing of the president’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, during a visit to the church, which also served as a vaccination site. Read...

Cricket fans have pointed to a "social media lynch mob" after England star Ollie Robinson was suspended over tweets he made when he was a teenager, with actor and political activist Laurence Fox calling the move a "f*cking joke". Read F...

UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou has claimed that Logan Paul made a "crazy" $20 million from fighting boxing veteran Floyd Mayweather, hinting at the row over UFC fighter purses after watching the eight-round exhibition. Read Fu...

Boxing great Floyd Mayweather hinted that age had caught up with his 44-year-old frame after going the distance with novice Logan Paul – and his opponent brazenly joked that he could beat the ex-champ in a rematch. Read Full Article a...

At least 37 people were killed and dozens more injured in Pakistan’s Sindh province after an express train derailed and collided with another passenger train coming from the opposite direction. Read Full Article at RT.com

While a 60-year-old landmark of bygone coal industry came crashing down dramatically in the UK, a football match carried on with only the briefest of pauses in a striking sporting scene that has been captured on camera. Read Full Articl...

Merck pharmaceutical company launched an investigation after a “rope fashioned as a noose” was found at a construction project on its sprawling plant in Durham, North Carolina. The site will help produce the J&J Covid-19 vaccine. Re...

A new Ukraine shirt featuring a map of the country encompassing Crimea and slogans including "glory to the heroes" has been unveiled for this month's Euro 2020, causing a Russian State Duma to describe the design as "provocation". Read ...

Israel will remove its only remaining major Covid-19 restriction – the indoor mask mandate – on June 15 if the infection level remains low, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein has announced. Read Full Article at RT.com

David Dushman, the last surviving member of the Soviet tank regiment that liberated the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in January 1945, has died aged 98. A decorated veteran, he went on to become a sporting legend despite his injuries. Read ...

A media executive and a former police chief appear to have little prospect of ever leaving jail after reportedly being handed more than 1,000 years each in prison for allegedly plotting to level match fixing charges. Read Full Article a...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has accused Facebook of acting as a “state agency” during the Covid-19 pandemic for the government and health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci, saying this behavior should carry legal consequences. Read Full ...

Buckingham Palace is reportedly mulling sending the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to spend more time in Scotland to strengthen the UK’s unity, amid fears the government is “losing” the Scots. Reactions show the plan may backfire. ...

Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) has faced an onslaught of criticism, with even his own party labeling him a “Republican” for saying he would vote against a Joe Biden-backed reform proposal. Read Full Article at RT.com

Numerous media critics have lashed out at both CNN and host Brian Stelter, after an interview between the latter and White House official Jen Psaki in which Psaki was asked what the press gets “wrong” in its coverage of Joe Biden. R...

Sore loser Deontay Wilder is clearly not about to give up his discredited claims that Tyson Fury loaded his gloves when he knocked him out last year, and has even defended his man who was supposed to check for foul play. Read Full Artic...

While Donald Trump had plenty to say during his speech on Saturday night, his critics instead chose to focus on his appearance, mainly his supposedly backwards pants. Read Full Article at RT.com

For the second time inside a week, England's footballers have been booed by fans inside Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium for taking a knee prior to kick off – despite boss Gareth Southgate's pleas for fans to respect the gesture. Rea...

A professional MMA fighter and former professional rugby player has been on trial for serious assault after allegedly swearing at a vision he was having of the devil and spitting blood at a paramedic helping him in an ambulance. Read Fu...

The United States will send 750,000 shots to Taiwan as part of an effort to help combat the coronavirus worldwide, after Taipei rejected similar vaccine assistance from China. Read Full Article at RT.com

Efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Belmarsh Prison in the UK were ramped up this week ahead of the G7 summit with an action in Geneva, a petition, and an intervention by the UN special rapporteur on torture. Read Full...

Things didn't go Ariane Lipski's way in the UFC's latest event in Las Vegas on Saturday night, but the stunning Brazilian MMA star certainly isn't letting defeat wipe the smile off her bloodstained face. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Tennis sensation Naomi Osaka has broken her silence after leaving the French Open in a row over her media boycott, taking to her favored platform of Instagram after winning support from high-profile backers including Will Smith. Read Fu...

The French Open has lost another of its chief attractions after Swiss great Roger Federer revealed on Sunday that he was withdrawing from the competition in advance of his fourth-round match, citing concerns about his fitness. Read Full...

Chinese authorities are bracing for more damage as 15 protected wild Asian elephants remain undeterred by people and vehicles deployed to keep them away from human-populated areas. Read Full Article at RT.com

Logan Paul says that he feared for his life and that of his younger brother, Jake, fearing they might get shot during the fierce brawl which ensued during a press event in Miami at which Jake stole Floyd Mayweather's baseball cap. Read ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken out against hate speech after his political opponents were given extra security detail. A ‘unity’ coalition to oust the PM was met with online hate and protests. Read Full Article...

England boss Gareth Southgate has earned a rapid backlash from two Conservative politicians after insisting his team will take the knee for Black Lives Matter (BLM) – but an opposition MP is ready to "bring on" the "culture war". Read...

The Russian service providing security to top officials and key government locations is usually highly secretive about the identity of its officers. This one, however, is an exception, and was deliberately presented to the press. Read F...

The foreign ministers of Argentina, Bolivia, and Mexico have all said the leader of the OAS regional bloc played a toxic role ahead of what is set to be the largest vote in Mexican history, taking place on Sunday. Read Full Article at R...

Russia’s gold and foreign exchange holdings neared $606 billion as of May 21, marking a week-on-week growth of 0.8%, according to the latest data released by the country’s central bank. Read Full Article at RT.com

UFC colossus Jairzinho Rozenstruik got his UFC heavyweight title ambitions back on track in Las Vegas on Saturday night, as he landed a last-second KO at the end of the first frame to ease past Brazil's Augusto Sakai. Read Full Article ...

Jon Rahm was close to establishing himself as the first repeat-winner of the Memorial since Tiger Woods, only to walk off the 18th green in Ohio to be told on live television that he had tested positive for Covid. Read Full Article at R...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock cannot confirm whether the UK’s current coronavirus rules will be eased as planned on June 21 or delayed due to the fast-spreading Indian strain. Read Full Article at RT.com

Cruella de Vil, the heartless puppy-pelt enthusiast reinvented as a rebellious fashion challenger in a new Disney movie, is not unlike real-life, norms-breaking politician Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Washington Post column has said. Read ...

At the current pace of gold production Russia has enough unmined reserves of the precious metal for many decades to come, according to the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Alexander Kozlov. Read Full Article at RT.com

The brazen outlook that has landed Floyd Mayweather an extravagantly lucrative fight with Logan Paul formed “a lot” of Donald Trump’s “playbook”, according to a report claiming that Trump might not have emerged without the box...

Europe and the US should establish global rules of trade relations and technology, according to US President Joe Biden, excluding Beijing from taking part in such a process. Read Full Article at RT.com

When RT was forced to register as a ‘foreign agent’ by American authorities four years ago, it sparked a chain of events that saw the network banned from press events, cut off from potential partners and delisted on social media. Re...

Givara Budeiri, a veteran Al Jazeera correspondent, was arrested while covering a peaceful protest in a flashpoint neighborhood of East Jerusalem and banned from entering the area for 15 days. Read Full Article at RT.com

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have chosen a top U.S. coal-producing state as the location for a new kind of nuclear reactor, using Natrium as its power source. Read Full Article at RT.com

The rivalry between the Paul brothers and Floyd Mayweather looks set to continue past Sunday after Tyron Woodley confirmed he has accepted the 50-0 boxer's offer to train him ahead of his August clash with Jake Paul. Read Full Article a...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has instructed the military to conduct a thorough probe after a servicewoman took her own life. Her family accused the air force of failing to investigate her sexual assault claim. Read Full Article at...

The Beijing Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau has officially announced that some 40 million digital yuan ($6.2 million) will be distributed to the city’s residents as part of a new digital currency trial. Read Full...

A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against enforcing California’s decades-long ban on assault weapons, defending the use of AR-15 rifles for home protection. Liberals blasted the move as a threat to public safety. Read ...

West Mercia Police have been ridiculed on social media for posting a photo of a 7.5-ton lorry towing away a seized 45kg e-scooter, with commenters wondering why it wasn’t simply placed in the trunk of a service car. Read Full Article ...

A group claiming to be part of the Anonymous movement has called for war with Elon Musk, accusing the Tesla founder of manipulating cryptocurrencies, among other alleged sins, and suggesting that he faces a battle ahead. Read Full Artic...

The US has promised that Amazon and Facebook will fall under the new global tax rules agreed by the G7 nations. But even in countries with rock-bottom rates, megacorporations have paid effectively nothing for years. Read Full Article at...

In a new GOP fundraising campaign, ex-president Donald Trump has promised to “take back” the White House and that Republicans will take control of both houses of Congress “sooner than you think,” sending his critics into meltdow...

A person’s intelligence and brain function correlates to the size of their pupils, a new eye-popping study by US researchers suggests. The study claims that the larger the pupil, the smarter its owner. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

El Salvador is taking steps to become the first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, alongside the US dollar, potentially setting the stage for other nations to reduce central-bank influence over their economies. Read Full...

German Health Minister Jens Spahn wanted to distribute potentially faulty masks to the homeless and people with disabilities after spending more than €1 billion on a large consignment from China last year, a report says. Read Full Art...

The US Department of Justice has announced that it will no longer seize reporters’ records during leak investigations, just as the White House denied knowledge of a gag order against the New York Times. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Serbian Christian Orthodox church that was built on a Bosniak woman's land near Srebrenica has been razed by local authorities under a court order, concluding a decades-long legal dispute stemming from the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. Read ...

At least five people have been killed and 15 injured in a knife attack in China’s eastern Anhui province. A lone attacker stabbed people at random on a shopping street in the city of Anqing, the local police said. Read Full Article at...

Conservative satire website Babylon Bee has blasted the New York Times for an article labeling its stories “far-right misinformation” disguised as humor. Read Full Article at RT.com

Gareth Southgate says that his England squad are united in their commitment to taking a knee at this summer's European Championships, despite any negative backlash that they may receive from the stands. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin has pledged to do "anything necessary" to help with Qatar's "difficulties" ahead of the World Cup – and hailed the arrival of Euro 2020 in St. Petersburg next week as a sign of the pandemic easing. Rea...

Twitter is very concerned about its recent blocking in Nigeria, calling the free and open internet an “essential human right.” Back in the US, commentators pointed out, Twitter doesn’t care as much about this “right.” Read Ful...

A Turkish airstrike has reportedly hit a refugee camp in Iraq housing Kurdish refugees from Turkey, media reports say, with Kurdish sources claiming three people were killed. Ankara called the camp “a terrorist breeding ground.” Rea...

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has said his public sparring with the US president’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, on Covid-19 and its origins has led to multiple death threats against him and his family. Read Full Article ...

Despite the Ballon d'Or being largely dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for the past decade, Paul Pogba says that Chelsea star N'Golo Kante should be confirmed as the world's best player in this year's honors list. Read Fu...

Andy Murray, who has previously called for compulsory vaccinations for tennis players, has grinned while showing off his freshly-jabbed arm and linked his work as an ambassador for children's charity UNICEF to Covid-19 vaccines. Read Fu...

Naomi Wolf, a feminist author and former campaign adviser to then-president Bill Clinton who became an ardent critic of lockdowns and vaccines during the pandemic, has been banned from Twitter. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former UFC title challenger Paulo Costa has announced he won't fight Jake Cannonier in August, saying that YouTubers like Jake and Logan Paul have exposed the vast pay disparity between boxing and the UFC. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Russian Formula One rookie Nikita Mazepin's participation in future races is under threat after he was told that he will have to attend regular training camps as part of military service, his father and team backer has revealed. Read Fu...

A US media personality and a prolific advocate for anti-government Islamist fighters in Syria now says the group he supported is torturing people in the city of Idlib and that he himself was abused while in custody. Read Full Article at...

Russia is advancing projects to have waste-to-energy plants produce electricity, Sergei Ivanov, Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology, and Transport said at an economic forum in Russia. Read Full Arti...

Nations across the world have to diversify more and more as Washington is using the dollar to put political and economic pressure on its rivals, according to investment guru Jim Rogers. Read Full Article at RT.com

Muhammad Mokaev has hit out at his opponent, Ibragim Navruzov, after Friday's fight at BRAVE CF 51 was declared a 'no-contest' when Navruzov was deemed unable to continue after absorbing a first-round low blow form Mokaev. Read Full Art...

New Delhi has issued “one last notice” to Twitter, accusing the social media giant of non-compliance with the country’s new information laws. Failure to comply would result in penalties for the company. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Italian giants AC Milan and Inter Milan have expressed their sorrow following the death of Seid Visin, an adopted Ethiopian whose death at the age of 20 left his club paying tribute to an "enormous talent with a fragile heart". Read Ful...

Finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations have backed the Biden administration’s plans to set a global minimum tax of 15% on corporate earnings. Outside the G7, the plan has faced opposition from tax havens like Ireland. Read ...

The Sons of Confederate Veterans rose to prominence after the BLM movement swept the US, seeking to change perceptions of the South and explain why they proudly fly the Confederate flag, even if some think it’s a toxic symbol. Read Fu...

Elon Musk has been credited with sending an X-rated cryptocurrency to the proverbial moon, after firing off a tweet containing three creatively-curated emojis. Read Full Article at RT.com

A fresh outbreak of a mysterious illness has been making headlines in Canada. A neurological disease dubbed the New Brunswick Syndrome has affected dozens and killed six people in recent months in the region that gave it its name. Read ...

Spurs fans have signaled their discontent with the club's hierarchy after talks to appoint Serie A winner Antonio Conte fell apart, with the Italian thought to be concerned about Tottenham's ability to challenge for honors. Read Full Ar...

Russian doubles ace Yana Sizikova, who is said to have had her room ransacked and been detained over suspicions relating to last year's French Open, has been released and is considering a libel complaint, according to a report. Read Ful...

An English delivery truck driver in Dundee, Scotland has won a court case after successfully arguing that he was unfairly treated because of his nationality. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK authorities have inked a trade deal with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. The post-Brexit pact is set to cut tariffs and will replace provisional agreements that had been in place since the UK exited the EU last year. Read Full Art...

The Met Police received heavy criticism after it made a post praising “intersectionality” and “Queer People of Colour in the fight against racism” – with concerned Brits calling on police to tackle knife crime in the city. Rea...

Man City's Ruben Dias has been named the Premier League Player of the Season – but many fans have been baffled by the defender beating England's Harry Kane to the award after the Spurs hitman was involved in a staggering 37 goals. Rea...

Lionel Messi looks set to stay at Barcelona for a further two seasons and will sign a deal to join David Beckham's Inter Miami before returning to the Camp Nou as a so-called 'global ambassador', according to reports in Spain. Read Full...

An academic who studied Muslim integration in Britain has revealed in a new book that women and children in some communities are subjected to Taliban-like rules, and non-Muslims face threats of violence. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Senior officers of feuding Chinese tech giants have clashed over whose product for sharing short videos is the more harmful to impressionable youth. The sector is among the fastest-growing in the country. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Lawyers for Juventus and Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo are said to have asked for his rape case involving ex-model Kathryn Mayorga to be thrown out of court, claiming lawyers failed to disclose hacked papers handed over. Read Ful...

A group of lawmakers has warned US President Joe Biden that the Afghan government can’t guarantee the safety of locals who helped American troops, calling for a large-scale evacuation. Read Full Article at RT.com

Beijing has condemned the vigils held at US and EU consulates in the autonomous region of Hong Kong on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, branding them a “clumsy political show” to destabilize the city. Read Full...

The volume of trade between Russia and China is expected to amount to $200 billion in three years, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who says relations between Moscow and Beijing are now at an unprecedented level. Read Full...

Its brown packages and speedy delivery make Amazon the most recognizable shopping service from Toronto to Tokyo but, while the company is taking on TV and trialing drone delivery, it has yet to crack the world’s largest country. Read ...

Cash is becoming a thing of the past, and in the next few decades it will be completely replaced by digital currency. That’s according to the first deputy chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who predicted the end of physical money. R...

The Pentagon isn’t alone in investigating strange objects spotted in the skies: according to reports, the Chinese military has also been tracking UFOs, and in recent years has registered an uptick in sightings. Read Full Article at RT...

Construction works on the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline project will be completed as early as 2025 with sustained financing, according to Russian Energy Minister Nikolay Shulginov. Read Full Article at RT.com

China’s Foreign Ministry blasted the resurgent interest in the Covid-19 lab-origin theory, noting that the journalist behind a report about Wuhan scientists falling ill is the same one who peddled lies that led to the Iraq War. Read F...

Brazil’s top health regulator has decided to approve Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine after a controversial delay which Moscow blasted as “political.” Conditions will be placed on the delivery and use of the vaccine, however. R...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested that Ottawa and other concerned countries will politicize the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, using the occasion to address China's alleged human rights abuses. Read Full Article at RT.com ...