Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold another bulk of the company’s shares worth $1.01 billion to pay his taxes, Thursday’s regulatory filings show. Read Full Article at RT.com

Australians have been pegged the heaviest drinkers in the world after consuming alcohol to the point of insobriety nearly twice as much as people elsewhere during 2020, an annual international survey of drug use has found. Read Full Art...

A German man on trial over his alleged stint as a Nazi death camp guard has told a court he never wore an SS uniform but worked at a farm all through WWII. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Chinese embassy in London has hit back at the head of Britain’s secret intelligence service, accusing Richard Moore of “peddling fake news” after the MI6 boss claimed China targets poor countries with “debt” and “data”...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden will hold talks soon, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken revealed on Thursday, in what would be the first discussions between the two since meeting in June. Read ...

Cristiano Ronaldo breached the 800-goal mark in his career as the Portugal star netted a double for Manchester United against Arsenal in a game which also saw an extraordinary VAR incident when the Gunners opened the scoring. Read Full ...

The Israeli government said it won’t seek to extend the controversial surveillance program in which its security agency, Shin Bet, tracked people infected with the Omicron Covid-19 variant through their phones. Read Full Article at RT...

The exodus from Kamala Harris’ administration is poised to continue with two more senior advisers, who reportedly told their colleagues they are on their way out. The news comes a day after the VP’s spokesperson quit. Read Full Arti...

China is set to relax its travel rules for American business executives, Beijing’s envoy to the US said, vowing to put “more positive energy” into bilateral ties and “fast track” flights in order to meet concerns from US firms...

Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin has denied feeling any “guilt” over the on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, saying that while the incident may affect his career, he does not see himself as responsible. Read Full A...

President Joe Biden has vowed to not force the nation into yet another lockdown as the new Covid-19 strain spreads. Apart from encouraging vaccination at home, Biden said the US “must vaccinate the world.” Read Full Article at RT.co...

The Oklahoma government has sued the Joe Biden administration over its Covid-19 vaccine mandate for the military, deeming the order unconstitutional while asking the court to block its enforcement. Read Full Article at RT.com

US Representative Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who chairs the committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, has suggested that invoking the right to remain silent implies guilt. Read Full Article at RT.com

Attorneys for Jussie Smollett have accused the trial judge of attempting to “lunge” at members of the defense team and ‘snarling’ during testimony, requesting a mistrial in the increasingly bizarre case. Read Full Article at RT....

Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Antonio Brown has been suspended without pay for three games following a scandal in which he was accused of using a counterfeit card to prove that he’d been vaccinated against Covid-19. Read Full Article ...

Benedict Cumberbatch is seriously miscast as a rough and rugged cowboy in Netflix’s misguided meditation on the dark side of men by Oscar winner Jane Campion, which has attracted a lot of praise – most of it unwarranted. Read Full A...

The Joe Biden administration is set to revive a Trump-era policy requiring US-bound migrants to await their immigration hearings in Mexico. The move has drawn pushback from rights groups, arguing that it could have been avoided. Read Fu...

The trailer for upcoming stop-motion movie ‘Santa Inc.’ was met with a flood of anti-Semitic comments. But is the reaction that surprising, considering it takes an unfiltered woke piss at white Christians, their holiday and Santa? R...

Outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has imposed a Covid-19 vaccination mandate on the city’s private schools, affecting about 56,000 staff. The order is expected to run into resistance from Orthodox Jews. Read Full Article at ...

Twitter has announced their latest round of axed accounts, targeting thousands of users accused of promoting government agendas in countries such as China, Russia, and Venezuela. Read Full Article at RT.com

Paris has rejected the idea of a joint British-French patrol in the Channel to fight illegal migration, with the country’s PM Jean Castex stating that keeping UK military away from its borders was a matter of “sovereignty.” Read F...

While all branches of the US military insist only a tiny percentage of explosives are lost or stolen from their stocks, an AP investigation suggests the disappearance of grenades, C4, and even rockets, often gets overlooked. Read Full A...

Hundreds of thousands of patients from a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood branch have had their information compromised in a massive malware attack. Conducted two months ago, it has only now been disclosed. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A rash of smash-and-grab thefts in the US by organized looting gangs is being caused at least partly by the Covid-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden’s press secretary has claimed. Read Full Article at RT.com

A handful of BuzzFeed News employees have staged a walkout for a day, demanding better pay and benefits just as the company prepares to go public. Read Full Article at RT.com

Manchester United superstar Cristiano Ronaldo could be grilled by Italian officials amid an investigation into former club Juventus, according to reports in Italy. Read Full Article at RT.com

Covid-19 patients could stay contagious for more than three months after infection, one of Russia's top health officials warned on Thursday, as the country battles sharp increases in the numbers of cases and deaths from the virus. Read ...

To simplify the issue enormously, but somewhat fairly, it's fair to say that the current divide splitting Western foreign policy analysts at a time of increasing global tensions is whether they are realists, or idealists. Read Full Arti...

NATO continues to stir up tensions with Russia while refusing to work on resolving outstanding issues, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed, reiterating Moscow’s calls for a comprehensive international security agreement. Read F...

President Joe Biden continues to alienate voters with his job performance, and a new poll shows that even among those Americans who give him a thumbs-up, less than half say they “strongly approve.” Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A worsening diplomatic standoff in Europe is one of the key issues to be discussed in talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart, Joe Biden, Moscow has claimed as tensions mount on the continent. Read Fu...

The Iranian government has delivered a draft list of proposals to European powers, as indirect talks between Tehran and Washington over reviving the beleaguered 2015 nuclear deal entered the fourth day of negotiations. Read Full Article...

Health officials in Minnesota have announced the second case of the Covid-19 variant Omicron in the US. The infected person’s only recent travel was to an anime event in New York. Read Full Article at RT.com

Iconic Russian figure skating coach Tatiana Tarasova has dismissed a furor surrounding Olympic figure skating champion Alina Zagitova as “nonsense” after the star shared a video of herself swaying seductively in a black bikini. Read...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Fed chair Jerome Powell insist the inflation crippling the US economy is actually too much of a good thing, saying it’s because markets weren’t anticipating such a quick recovery from Covid. Read ...

OPEC and its oil-producing allies led by Russia (OPEC+) decided on Thursday to stick to their existing policy of hiking output by 400,000 barrels per day in January despite Omicron concerns and a US release from crude reserves. Read Ful...

Alexander Schallenberg has announced he is resigning as chancellor of Austria, just two months after taking office. He said he would remain in the post until his party agrees a new leader in the wake of Sebastian Kurz’s departure. Rea...

China’s aviation regulator said on Thursday it has cleared Boeing 737 MAX planes to return to flying with technical upgrades. The decision comes after a ban of more than two and a half years. Read Full Article at RT.com

Dagestani social media phenomenon Hasbulla Magomedov is barred from Instagram after he was accused of issuing a threatening message to a young woman, according to reports in his Russian homeland. Read Full Article at RT.com

Heavily armed New York City police have arrested a man threatening to commit suicide with a shotgun outside the UN headquarters on East River, after a standoff that lasted nearly three hours. Read Full Article at RT.com

A UK government minister has blamed the “pantomime season” and upcoming French election for “unhelpful” remarks allegedly made by President Emmanuel Macron about the British prime minister. Read Full Article at RT.com

After two years of waiting, Tesla fans can finally lay their hands on the Cyberquad all-terrain vehicle, now on sale on Tesla’s website. However, only smaller customers can enjoy it, as they launched the kids’ bike version. Read Ful...

Two police officers have been injured while attempting to arrest a suspected car thief near Cherbourg, France's Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said on Thursday. The assailant reportedly struck the officers with a sword. Read ...

According to new polling, approximately half of Americans say they are directly feeling the negative impact of record inflation in the US, with some saying the hardships they’re facing are severe. Read Full Article at RT.com

An intensive secret lobbying campaign by Saudi Arabia, featuring “incentives and threats,” reportedly succeeded in shutting down a UN investigation into human rights violations committed in the Yemen conflict this year. Read Full Ar...

For the first time, Russia has deployed the Bastion missile system on the island of Matua in the Pacific Ocean, the country’s Armed Forces revealed on Thursday. Bastion is a mobile defense system that can attack surface ships. Read Fu...

Up to 60 people were infected with Covid-19 at a corporate Christmas party in Norway attended by a recent arrival from South Africa. Medical experts said they fear the cause could be the new super-mutant Omicron variant. Read Full Artic...

The world of rugby has been mourning Scottish women’s international Siobhan Cattigan after her death at the age of 26. Read Full Article at RT.com

A British cabinet minister has suggested people should avoid “snogging under the mistletoe” this Christmas, as the government and the NHS battle to keep Covid-19 under control in the run-up to the festive period. Read Full Article a...

The UK’s advertisement regulator has concluded that a depiction of Santa Claus showing his vaccination status in Tesco’s Christmas ad does not break rules as it is likely to be seen as a “humorous reference” to travel rules. Rea...

A meeting between US and Ukrainian diplomats was thrown into darkness as the US secretary of state began to speak. A similar incident took place later as Russian and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe reps spoke. Read F...

A large crowd has taken to the streets of Kiev demanding the resignation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, on the same day that he claimed a Russian-backed coup d'etat would be launched against his government. Read Full Article...

The European Union said on Thursday it has fined four major banks a combined €344 million ($390 million) for colluding in a foreign exchange spot trading cartel via a chatroom named “Sterling Lads.” Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Despite the Soviet Union having collapsed around three decades ago, the hammer and sickle could soon be flying back over Ukraine, America's top military official appears to have suggested amid claims about a Russian attack. Read Full Ar...

A picture of Russian Empress Catherine II, painted by Dmitry Levitzky, has sold at auction in London for £951,000 ($1.26 million), alongside a letter written to Count Pyotr Rumyantsev about the need to vaccinate against smallpox. Read ...

The Omicron coronavirus variant is expected to overtake the currently-dominant Delta strain and cause over half of all Covid-19 cases in the bloc within the “next few months,” an EU health agency has said. Read Full Article at RT.co...

The new Covid variant has sparked panic since it was first detected in South Africa. Countries reimposed travel restrictions in an attempt to limit the spread – despite this, the strain has begun to conquer the globe. Read Full Articl...

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, believes the elderly should be barred from political office, suggesting an age limit be introduced. Read Full Article at RT.com

A court in Austria has slapped a surgeon with a fine of €2,700 ($3,060) after she amputated the wrong leg on an elderly patient. Read Full Article at RT.com

Iconic Swedish furniture brand Ikea has begun renting small duplex apartments in the overpopulated Japanese capital Tokyo for less than a dollar per month. Read Full Article at RT.com

Germany’s caretaker government will impose harsh curbs on unvaccinated citizens in an attempt to rein in soaring Covid-19 infections and ease substantial pressure on hospitals as fears grow about the Omicron variant. Read Full Article...

Kiev is making the prospect of a peace deal in the east of Ukraine increasingly difficult, Moscow has warned, as Washington urges the Eastern European country to implement a previously agreed deal to bring an end to the conflict. Read F...

The UFC's first-ever women's flyweight champion, Nicco Montano, has alleged that she was recently attacked and injured by a male MMA fighter. Read Full Article at RT.com

Controversial actor-director Vincent Gallo is reportedly breaking nearly a decade-long hiatus for a role in a film produced in collaboration with the conservative news outlet The Daily Wire. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Science Museum in London has agreed to alter an exhibit on human biology and sex characteristics after receiving complaints over a perceived lack of transgender representation and its “non-inclusive narrative.” Read Full Article...

Airbnb has announced it is renting out the original ‘Home Alone’ house during this festive period while the McCallister family is “away on their annual trip.” Read Full Article at RT.com

The Supreme Court of Israel has concluded that mobile phone tracking with a view to curb Omicron’s spread does not pose a threat to people’s privacy rights, and therefore rejected a petition filed by human rights organizations. Read...

Moscow and Minsk could decide to be bound by a single currency in an effort to boost trade and strengthen ties between the two members of the so-called Union State, Belarus’ embattled leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has said. Read Full ...

Dutch football fans have reacted to strict new Covid protocol on amateur football training in their country by giving one team a stunning early morning reception. Read Full Article at RT.com

A British court has upheld a ruling that the Mail on Sunday had no right to publicize a private letter written by Meghan Markle, after a three-year legal battle. Read Full Article at RT.com

A scolding expose based on a trove of internal CIA documents indicates an apparent pattern of failure by the federal government to prosecute CIA employees and contractors suspected of child sex abuse crimes. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shook hands for the first time on Thursday in Stockholm. During their previous in-person meeting, they greeted with a Covid-friendly elbow bump. Read Full A...

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has stepped up its demands for China to fully investigate the sexual assault scandal involving former doubles world number one Peng Shuai. We look at the battle lines which have been drawn. Read Fu...

The structure of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus suggests it could be highly contagious but less deadly, a scientist from the Moscow center that created the Sputnik V vaccine has explained to RT's Russian service. Read Full A...

The US government has allowed debt collectors to use Facebook and other major social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter to track down those avoiding payments. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Greene King chain has announced plans to rename a Scottish pub from “The Black Bitch” to “The Black Hound” in keeping with contemporary sensitivities, but locals say they don’t want to lose the historic name. Read Full Art...

With carbon neutrality dealing a potential blow to its status as one of the world's major energy powers, Russia could maintain its export revenues by getting ahead of the curve and leading a global transition to green technology. Read F...

The leader of Iran’s Quds Force, specializing in operations abroad, has demanded that the US remove itself from the region and vowed to humiliate the world’s most powerful military should it make a wrong move against Tehran. Read Fu...

Russia has selected a beauty queen from the Republic of Tatarstan to represent the country at the 2021 edition of Miss Universe, the world’s second most famous pageant, due to be held on December 12 in the Israeli city of Eilat. Read ...

A new study has contradicted the UN World Food Programme’s (WFP) claim that Madagascar is experiencing the “world’s first climate-induced famine,” finding poverty and reliance on annual rains are driving the nation’s food cris...

The Washington, DC police officer who was electroshocked by a Donald Trump supporter during the January 6 Capitol Hill riot has described his attacker as a “moron” and “misfit” who was “manipulated” by the former president. ...

Danish investment bank Saxo Bank released its annual “outrageous predictions” on Thursday, to guide global financial markets through the “revolutionary” possibilities of 2022, from ditching the green transition to a new Cold War...

The UN has decided not to recognize, for now, the envoys put forward by Taliban militants in Afghanistan and the military junta in Myanmar. Both governments argued that their current ambassadors don’t represent them. Read Full Article...

Europe may be returning to a situation of military confrontation, and NATO is completely refusing to listen to all Russian proposals to de-escalate tensions, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.co...

A teenage US high school basketball player has been arrested after a rival was brutally sucker-punched during the ceremonial handshakes following a game earlier this week. Read Full Article at RT.com

The French president has reportedly called British PM Boris Johnson “a clown” and said it was a shame to see such a great country, which France could cooperate with, run by a knucklehead. Read Full Article at RT.com

Sebastian Kurz, who served as Austria’s chancellor from 2017 to 2019, and then from 2020 to this autumn, has announced his departure from the world of politics. Read Full Article at RT.com

Videogames allow us to be anyone, anywhere and anywhen. At least, they used to. Now, with the troubles of the real world leaking into the virtual one, it is not the case. Recent bans in Forza Horizon 5 are evidence of that. Read Full Ar...

A British-American team of scientists claims to have found the “trigger” behind clot formation in certain patients immunized with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Read Full Article at RT.com

Liverpool ace Mohamed Salah delivered the perfect response to his Ballon d'Or snub when questioned by a reporter on the award in a post-match interview. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that the US is set to impose new Covid restrictions, requiring a negative test within one day of travel for all arrivals, including vaccinated people. Read Full Article ...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who last week urged people to refrain from travel due to the Omicron coronavirus variant, is in hot water after it was announced that his wife and kids are going on a foreign vacation. Read Full A...

The risk of an all-out armed conflict in south-eastern Ukraine is extremely high and is becoming a matter of grave concern for Russia, Moscow has cautioned, as international tensions heighten over the war-torn Donbass region. Read Full ...

If Russia uses its military against Ukraine, Moscow will see a response from the US and its NATO partners unlike anything ever experienced before, including unprecedented sanctions, Washington threatened on Wednesday. Read Full Article ...

The Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, an annual gift from Norway to the UK, has raised eyebrows this year with its rather shabby appearance, prompting some to ask whether Britain has offended the Nordic nation. Read Full Article at RT...

UFC president Dana White has tested positive for Covid-19, revealing he has consulted close friend and longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan for advice on his recovery. Read Full Article at RT.com

A senior WHO official has questioned the UK government’s decision to provide booster Covid vaccine doses to its adult population, cautioning that there was “no evidence” this would offer “any greater protection” to the healthy...

Oil prices could surge “a lot higher” and hit $150 a barrel amid global supply constraints, Wall Street investment bank Jefferies has warned. Read Full Article at RT.com

Gunmen aboard an improvised armored truck and several other vehicles have broken into a prison in Central Mexico, freeing nine inmates. The criminals also reportedly set off car bombs in the process. Read Full Article at RT.com

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has revealed that his country will head to the polls in February next year to vote on a brand new constitution that he says will redistribute power and create a new government structure. Read Fu...