While everyone expected Beijing to bail out real estate giant Evergrande, saying the company was too big to fail, the Chinese government has so far taken a different approach to dealing with the crisis. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A wannabe social media star has issued a sheepish confession to Russians after outraging religious believers with a set of sexually suggestive snaps posted from outside one of the country’s holiest churches, just off Red Square. Read ...

Russia’s state energy supplier, Gazprom, has begun supplying gas to Hungary through the Balkan Stream pipeline and pipelines in southeastern Europe under a long-term contract signed earlier this week. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

European gas prices have smashed yet another record, adjusting to almost $115 per megawatt-hour in household terms, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) data showed. Read Full Article at RT.com

The rollercoaster ride that was Donald Trump’s presidency has ground to a halt but, thanks to former Russia advisor Fiona Hill’s new account of his White House, the media can look forward to yet more twists and turns in the story. R...

The head of the Australian state of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, has abruptly resigned just before a corruption watchdog launched a probe into potential misconduct, stating that she had “no option” but to quit. Read Full Art...

San Francisco commuters found themselves stranded on the city’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge for over an hour after protesters created a blockade to halt traffic while they agitated for legislation protecting illegal migrants. Read Full ...

Beijing has called on its counterparts in Washington to find the “courage” and “self-awareness” to amend a series of aggressive and provocative policies toward China, following a second round of high-level joint military talks. ...

The Pentagon has acknowledged a September 20 drone strike in Syria’s Idlib province, which they say targeted Al-Qaeda leader Salim Abu-Ahmad and caused no civilian casualties. The area is controlled by Turkish-backed militants. Read F...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki has again leaned on a familiar blame-shifting tactic – pointing the finger at former President Donald Trump – this time over America still being “in the middle” of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rea...

North Korea test-fired a newly developed ‘anti-aircraft’ missile, the country’s state media reported, offering few details. It comes amid a flurry of similar tests in recent days, reportedly including a new “hypersonic” weapon...

An elite team of scientists advising the State Department concluded in 2018 that the ‘Havana Syndrome’ afflicting spies and diplomats could not have been due to a microwave weapon, but their report has just now been declassified. Re...

US Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) has excoriated Facebook for hiding its knowledge of the harmfulness of its products – just as cigarette makers did decades ago – and choosing “growth over children’s mental health.�...

A large bus depot in the German city of Stuttgart has gone up in flames, gutting vehicles and leaving a dense column of smoke looming over the city. Local residents have been advised to keep their doors and windows closed. Read Full Art...

YouTube has restored the channel of the institute run by former US Congressman Ron Paul after he complained, chalking it up to a ‘mistake.’ The move comes amid a mass censorship spree by the Google-owned video platform. Read Full Ar...

Manchester’s police force is failing to properly respond to victims of violent crime, England’s police watchdog has found. Domestic abuse victims sometimes wait days for a police visit, and cases can be closed with no response. Read...

Dan Hooker is set to step in to face UFC lightweight contender Islam Makhachev at UFC 267 in a month's time, according to reports, after the Russian's previous opponent Rafael Dos Anjos pulled out to undergo knee surgery. Read Full Arti...

The Nice supporter who aimed a kick at Marseille star Dimitri Payet during the infamous pitch invasion that occurred in the Meditteranean Derby has been administered a one-year suspended prison sentence for his act. Read Full Article at...

​A US Marine who saved a baby at Kabul airport is under investigation for appearing on stage with Donald Trump, while a DC reporter found time to tattletale on a dead marine’s family for going unmasked. A hero’s return indeed. Rea...

Ex-MP Clement Chiwaya, who had been disabled by polio since childhood, has shot and killed himself at the clerk’s office in Malawi’s Parliament, citing a row over ownership of a specially adapted vehicle that enabled him to drive. R...

More than one former employer of porn platform OnlyFans has reportedly kept access to the customer service software Zendesk after leaving the company, enabling them to access identity information of both creators and customers. Read Ful...

Democrats and Republicans have agreed to keep the government funded for two more months, approving a continuing resolution in back-to-back Senate and House votes. President Joe Biden signed the bill shortly before the deadline. Read Ful...

The ex-mayor of a small Italian town was slapped with a 13-year sentence for various irregularities in his handling of migrants. During his time in office, he received international praise for his efforts to integrate migrants. Read Ful...

The third phase clinical trials of the Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 among those aged over 60 have been successfully completed, with the jab proving its safety and effectiveness, Russia’s Health Minister revealed on Thursday. Rea...

Golden Boy Promotions head Oscar De La Hoya has taken a bizarre shot at Matchroom rival Eddie Hearn, accusing him of ruining Anthony Joshua's career while receiving a face massage from girlfriend Holly Sonders. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has faced down calls to quit amid criticism over the handling of the Sarah Everard case and prior allegations made against her killer, then-serving police officer Wayne Couzens. Read Full A...

An environmental activist who was duped into an almost two-year relationship with an undercover cop has won a landmark case against the Metropolitan Police for several breaches of her human rights and privacy. Read Full Article at RT.co...

A British football fan who racially abused a player from his own team has been jailed for eight weeks after suggesting that the black star should win the 'Baboon d'Or' in reference to the sport's highest individual accolade. Read Full A...

Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems has nothing to do with undermining NATO, but was the logical result of Washington refusing to allow Ankara to purchase the American-made analog, the Patriot system. Read...

The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry has given seven United Nations (UN) representatives in the country just 72 hours to leave, declaring them “persona non grata” and accusing them of “meddling” in Addis Ababa’s internal affairs. Re...

A new political attack ad portrays Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a raving madman who lets his people choose whether to wear masks and won’t make vaccination mandatory. What could be worse to America’s lockdown-happy liberals? Read Fu...

Beijing has reportedly asked one of Russia's largest power companies to step up its exports of electricity to China after days of brownouts blamed on scarce supplies of coal caused chaos across the world's most populous country. Read Fu...

Irish jockey Oisin Murphy was taken to hospital with facial injuries after being involved in a scary incident at Salisbury racecourse in the UK as he was thrown into a fence by his out-of-control horse, Oasis Gift. Read Full Article at ...

WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said former CIA Director Mike Pompeo has “confirmed” a bombshell report about alleged agency plans to “kidnap or kill” Julian Assange by calling for the prosecution of its sources. Re...

Road traffic across the UK fell 6% on Monday compared to the previous week, sending it to its lowest level since Covid-19 lockdown restrictions ended, as panic buying created a fuel crisis, according to new government data. Read Full Ar...

The Russian authorities have put Roman Dobrokhotov, the founder of online publication The Insider, on the country’s wanted list, after he fled the country by allegedly illegally crossing the border to Ukraine’s Lugansk region. Read ...

Top Brexit crusader Nigel Farage has claimed that his vehicle was hit by a van at a roundabout while he was hunting for fuel amid the ongoing UK petrol crisis that’s seen up to 90% of gas stations run dry in areas of the country. Read...

The Russian head of international boxing organization the AIBA has promised action after an investigation suggested more than 10 boxing matches at the 2016 Rio Olympics were manipulated. Read Full Article at RT.com

A large plume of black smoke was sent into the air above the Russian city of Tyumen, on Thursday afternoon, after the roof of a residential building caught fire. The huge blaze, however, was promptly extinguished by firefighters. Read F...

Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station have taken a nighttime photo of the river of lava coming out of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain’s La Palma island, revealing the massive scale of the cataclysm. Read Full Art...

Chief negotiators for Serbia and Kosovo have formally reached agreement to conclude the latest round of escalation. “We have a deal,” tweeted EU special representative Miroslav Lajcak after two days of “intense negotiations.” Re...

Moscow has not received requests for increased coal exports from the EU or China, Russia’s Energy Ministry says, brushing off media reports to the contrary. Read Full Article at RT.com

After Elon Musk accused Amazon of using the legal system to block SpaceX’s progress, the retail giant responded by sending several news outlets a long list of lawsuits and legal actions filed by its aerospace rival over the years. Rea...

President Joe Biden's chief Covid adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has responded to NBA stars such as Kyrie Irving, who are accused of spreading misinformation on Covid vaccines, in an interview with a conservative radio host. Read Full Articl...

Labour leader Keir Starmer has offered his unsolicited opinion on the James Bond franchise, angering many Britons by calling for the next title character to be played by a woman, which would mark a distinct change from tradition. Read F...

After years of calling bitcoin a fraud, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon did a complete 180 this week in regard to his view of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former Chelsea boss Antonio Conte says the London club are yet to understand how to deploy big-money summer signing Romelu Lukaku, as the Belgian saw his goal drought continue in the Champions League loss at Juventus. Read Full Article ...

US tech giant Facebook could be handed steep financial penalties amounting to ten percent of its national revenue after Russian officials revealed they are drafting up protocols against the company for alleged breaches of the law. Read ...

Scotland’s vaccine passport system will launch as planned in large venues after a judge rejected a legal challenge put forward by nightclubs seeking to delay the measure from coming into force. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia should expand its list of extremist ideologies to include movements such as radical feminism and LGBT in order to protect children from damaging material, a senior official at the country’s media regulator has suggested. Read F...

Warsaw has illegally stranded 32 Afghan migrants on its border with Belarus, leaving them without access to clean water, shelter and medicine for weeks, despite having an obligation as an EU country to process their asylum claims. Read ...

The private driver of football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly waited almost seven hours to fill up his luxury Bentley a few miles from the Portuguese icon's home near Manchester, but left the station without a drop. Read Full Ar...

Two dozen Russian organizations and journalists have been added to a government list of ‘foreign agents’ with ties to overseas funding, requiring them to declare their status and abide by a series of financial disclosure rules. Read...

A comprehensive new UK report into transgender participation in sport has determined that trans women retain physical advantages when competing in female categories, even if they suppress testosterone levels. Read Full Article at RT.com...

China's state-owned oil and gas corporation China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has discovered a major oil field in Bohai Bay, the company said in a statement on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former police officer Wayne Couzens will die in prison after being sentenced to a rare whole-life term. He was found guilty of the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard as she walked home in south London on March 3. Read Full Arti...

Formula 1 fans have reacted with anger after a deal was announced to stage races in Qatar, which will step in to fill a slot in this year’s calendar in November while also signing a 10-year arrangement. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The UK government ended its furlough scheme on Thursday, bringing to a close the Covid support system that has propped up the wages of 11.6 million people at a cost of £70 billion ($94.13 billion) since starting in March 2020. Read Ful...

The first direct commercial flight from Bahrain to Israel took off on Thursday. The Arab state signed the US-brokered Abraham Accord last year, agreeing to normalize relations with Israel. Read Full Article at RT.com

A 96-year-old woman has been found after she failed to attend her trial for complicity in the murders of more than 11,000 people, and attempted murder of many others, prompting German authorities to issue an arrest warrant. Read Full Ar...

Several countries in the European Union want to begin discussions on the future of visa-free travel within the bloc for citizens of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, after complaints that a number of people have abused the system. Read Ful...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said he is willing to restore a hotline between the two Koreas, but he says Seoul must drop its “delusion” that its northern neighbor wants to cause it any harm or provoke. Read Full Article at RT...

As the US inches closer to a potential debt default, top officials are warning of the resulting fallout. Read Full Article at RT.com

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has admitted to being 'p*ssed' that Anthony Joshua blew their best of British box office clash by losing to Oleksandr Usyk, but has offered advice to his rival on how to turn the tides. Read Full Arti...

Israeli police have shot a Palestinian woman who attempted to stab officers in Jerusalem’s Old City. Medical teams arrived at the scene shortly after but declared the woman dead. Read Full Article at RT.com

France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of illegal campaign financing and sentenced to one year in prison. The court will let him serve the sentence at home. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia is locked into yet another standoff with an American tech company. This time, it’s YouTube, which has taken down two of RT’s German-language news channels and provoked a furious response from Moscow’s most senior officials....

Tear gas and water cannon were deployed by police in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana after thousands of demonstrators upset over mandatory Covid-19 passes tried to block a major highway and were accused of assaulting the media. Read Ful...

The founder and CEO of Russia’s Group-IB digital security firm has been detained by authorities and charged with high treason, reportedly for passing on secret information to foreign spies in yet another cloak and dagger drama. Read F...

The price of natural gas in Europe exceeded an all-time high of $1,100 per 1,000 cubic meters on Thursday, trading data from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) shows. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tight supply on the world’s dirtiest commodity in China has triggered a plunge in the production of Chinese goods. The situation has led to shortages in the global supply chain from high tech and electronics to toys and clothing. Read...

New Zealand has voted to strengthen a counter-terrorism bill, now criminalizing the planning of attacks after a knifeman inspired by Islamic State recently left several injured, despite being trailed by police for weeks. Read Full Artic...

The US military said it had an “in-depth” dialogue with Beijing, reiterating that it remains committed to regional allies amid ongoing enmity over a new security pact between the US, the UK and Australia designed to counter China. R...

Over 100 US citizens and special visa holders that were evacuated from Afghanistan ended up stuck in Abu Dhabi, as the DHS insisted on vetting them especially rigorously, after 120,000 people were flown out of Kabul earlier. Read Full A...

Klete Keller, the former Olympic swimming champion who was arrested in January for participating in the US Capitol riot, faces upward of two years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US’ top health agency has issued an “urgent” alert imploring “pregnant people” to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, pointing to a recent record surge in deaths among those with child and possible birth defects linked to the viru...

Newly released police interview footage shows then-UK cop Wayne Couzens trying to blame his abduction of London marketing executive Sarah Everard – whom he later admitted to raping and murdering – on an Eastern European gang. Read F...

Cristiano Ronaldo struck a winner deep into injury time to give Manchester United a 2-1 Champions League win over Villarreal at Old Trafford, on what was a landmark appearance in the competition for the Portuguese superstar. Read Full A...

White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has made it clear he has zero intention of resigning from his position despite a controversial standing with the public, dismissing critics as conspiracy theorists. Read Full Article at RT.co...

At least 100 people were killed during an outbreak of gang warfare in an Ecuadorian prison. Several of the victims were brutally beheaded, while the fatality count continues to climb as authorities search for additional bodies. Read Ful...

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship president Dave Feldman has said he 'would love' former UFC pin-up Paige VanZant to continue with the organization ahead of a sit-down with the fighter and her team to discuss their future. Read Full Ar...

A huge tornado has ripped through Kiel, a city on the Baltic coast of Germany, leaving devastation in its wake including at least seven injuries, local media report. The weather formation is highly unusual for the area. Read Full Articl...

The US Department of Homeland Security has allegedly threatened to fire Border Patrol agents who decline to get inoculated against Covid-19, even as historic flows of illegal aliens – many unvaccinated – are let into the country. Re...

Forest fires, gas pipelines, nuclear power plants and conflicts in Syria and the Caucasus were among the topics discussed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi on Wednesday. Read F...

RT is awaiting Moscow’s response to YouTube’s decision to delete RT's German-language channels, RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has said, adding that the move was no surprise amid Berlin’s campaign against the news outle...

ESPN host Sage Steele has branded the media company's mandating of the Covid vaccine for its employees 'sick' and 'scary', and said she received her jabs purely to remain in her role on Sportscenter. Read Full Article at RT.com

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) grew visibly frustrated with the media after she faced questions on the difficulty in passing two massive infrastructure bills, which are key to the president’s Build Back Better program. Read...

Tickets for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will only be on sale for people residing in mainland China while any unvaccinated athletes arriving in the country will need to remain in quarantine for 21 days, organizers have said. Read Fu...

Tech giant YouTube has been fiercely criticized and accused of running a “pervasive” censorship regime, after tightening up its ban on anti-vaccine content and booting prominent vaccine skeptics off its platform. Read Full Article a...

Riyadh and Tehran may soon formally resume relations severed in 2016, one report said as officials from Saudi Arabia and Iran quietly met this week. The series of contacts is reportedly mediated by the Iraqi government. Read Full Articl...

Former UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan has spoken on the elite MMA organization's decision to replace his scheduled opponent and successor Aljamain Sterling with the division's number three contender Cory Sandhagen. Read Full Articl...

The NBA has declared that unvaccinated players won’t be paid if they miss matches due to executive orders in place in New York and San Francisco. The ruling could hit stars such as Kyrie Irving and Andrew Wiggins especially hard. Read...

Developers who worked on Amazon’s new home robot Astro say it's a “privacy nightmare” and will “throw itself down a flight of stairs”. The retail giant claims, however, that the $999 device will offer “peace of mind” to us...

YouTube will ban all “harmful vaccine content” from its platform, including claims that vaccines are ineffective at reducing disease transmission. The ban comes after a year of escalating censorship by the Google-owned company. Read...

George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump in 2016, has described Australia under Prime Minister Scott Morrison as a “warning” to the United States with its authoritarian Covid-19 policies. Read F...

A debate between gubernatorial candidates Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin was interrupted after third-party nominee Princess Blanding interrupted and derailed the event, blasting the “racist” treatment of her campaign. Read Full ...

A Ukrainian Hockey League player has been hit with a seemingly soft ban after being sent off for racially abusing a black player by making the gesture of peeling an imaginary banana and eating it in a game at the weekend. Read Full Arti...

Enstroga, Igloo Energy, and Symbio Energy have joined the list of British suppliers to cease trading as a gas crisis sends wholesale prices through the roof, leaving regulator Ofgem to appoint a new provider for 233,000 customers. Read ...

A former nurse has gone on trial for the murder of four patients at a Texas hospital in 2017, with the prosecution claiming he purposefully injected air into the arteries of people recovering from heart surgery. Read Full Article at RT....

A Syria-Jordan border checkpoint is allowing vehicles and goods to flow between the two nations once again. Officials in Amman hope the move will help boost trade relations, which have been ravaged by war and US sanctions. Read Full Art...