Chinese authorities have plunged the city of Langfang, on the outskirts of the capital, into lockdown, as case numbers rise and fears of a second wave grow. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US ambassador in the Netherlands has hosted Taiwan’s representative at the US embassy, in the first such meeting since Washington removed restrictions on Taiwanese officials’ visits to American government offices. Read Full Arti...

India’s army chief has expressed the hope that the border standoff with Beijing will be solved through negotiations, as the country’s FM lamented that the recent clash with Chinese forces had greatly damaged mutual trust. Read Full ...

Meghan McCain has been raked over the coals by Twitter users after she expressed support for the inhumane treatment of rioters involved in the unrest at the Capitol, with many noting her late father would likely not approve. Read Full A...

The head of London’s police force vows officers will act “much more quickly” against people who fail to comply with the recent Covid-19 restrictions. Read Full Article at RT.com

The gold share of Russia’s foreign exchange holdings rose to 22.9 percent over the year to June 30, 2020, according to data revealed by the country’s central bank. Read Full Article at RT.com

A new report by UBS Global Research has projected India’s economic growth as reaching a multi-decade high in 2022. Its economy is expected to clock the fastest growth of all Asian nations, it said. Read Full Article at RT.com

The original Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, which shut its doors at the start of the Covid-19 crisis in March, is set to reopen later this week – but visitors will be offered vaccines instead of the usual attractions. Read ...

Some people in the UK are apparently very angry at the Netherlands because its customs officers are enforcing EU food safety rules and confiscating ham and cheese sandwiches that British motorists bring with them for lunch. Read Full Ar...

Mexico has studied Argentina’s use of Sputnik V in its immunization campaign, and could order the Russian-made vaccine in the future, the country's senior health official has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Airbnb will cancel reservations and ban anyone it deems to be linked to “hate groups,” as well as participants in unrest at the US Capitol, vowing legal action against those “planning violence” in the lead-up to Inauguration Day...

The US Capitol Police have suspended at least two officers and are probing as many as 15 others for their conduct during last week’s riot in Washington, DC, which saw election-fraud protesters storm the halls of Congress. Read Full Ar...

Facial recognition algorithms can be trained to recognize people’s political views, Stanford-affiliated researcher Michal Kosinski claims, stating that his most recent study achieved 72 percent accuracy on liberal v conservative. Read...

Citing the upcoming inauguration of Democrat Joe Biden, Facebook has banned the phrase “stop the steal,” used by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump to question the 2020 election, saying it could incite violence. Read Full...

Amazon’s political action committee will halt donations to lawmakers who voted to challenge the results of the 2020 election – all of them Republicans – as a series of corporations take similar steps after the Capitol Hill riot. R...

The Trump administration has put Cuba back on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, the latest in a series of hawkish diplomatic steps taken just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Trials of a simplified version of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine have begun in Russia. While providing less protection, the solution is expected to be easier to distribute and use in emergency mass-vaccination scenarios. Read Full Ar...

The San Francisco-based tech company Salesforce has confirmed that one of its subsidiaries has blocked the Republican National Committee from sending out fundraising emails, citing the January 6 events at the US Capitol. Read Full Artic...

A Democrat congresswoman has tested positive for Covid-19, apparently blaming her infection on a group of maskless Republicans she sheltered in place with during the Capitol Hill riot. Read Full Article at RT.com

At least three gorillas at a zoo in California have contracted Covid-19, becoming the first known cases among the species in the US, and possibly the world. They are believed to have been infected by an asymptomatic staff member. Read F...

Acting US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf has resigned amid an exodus of cabinet members quitting in the wake of last week's Capitol riot, but he cited adverse court rulings for his decision. Read Full Article ...

Former US congressman Ron Paul has been mysteriously locked out of his Facebook page and accused of “repeatedly going against our Community Standards.” The platform didn’t explain which content on Paul’s page flipped the switch....

Number of Covid-19 patients in English hospitals isn't going to drop in the coming weeks as the country hasn't yet seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of restrictions, NHS England's National Medical Director warned. Read Ful...

With President Donald Trump exiled from social media and laying low since the Capitol Hill riot, the State Department’s official website puzzlingly declared that Trump’s term in office came to an end on January 11. Read Full Article...

Accusing Amazon of monopolistic practices to benefit Twitter, breach of contract and defamation, Parler is asking a federal judge for help after the social media app was taken offline in what its CEO called a ‘coordinated attack.’ R...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it was notified by Japan about the detection of a new Covid-19 variant there, as the government extends the state of emergency declared to control the virus in Tokyo to other areas. Read Full...

Dana White and his number one cash cow, Conor McGregor, have reconciled after what the UFC boss described as a serious falling out between the two stemming from McGregor releasing private text messages between the pair last year. Read F...

The FBI reportedly claimed an armed group is planning an uprising in Washington and all 50 state capitals if US President Donald Trump is removed before his term in office expires, as the Democrats announced an impeachment push. Read Fu...

CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta is getting a new role now that President Donald Trump has been vanquished, moving to the anchor desk on weekends and working as chief domestic correspondent on weekdays. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Anti-government demonstrations in Iraq have continued for a fourth consecutive day, as hundreds of protesters faced off with security forces while demanding an end to the targeting of activists by authorities and armed groups. Read Full...

The hacker who saved a trove of user data from conservative social media app Parler has said that ID cards, financial information, and email addresses weren’t taken. Read Full Article at RT.com

CBS ‘60 Minutes’ reporter Leslie Stahl found herself under fire online from the fans of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after asking her if the octogenarian senior House Democrat was prepared to pass the baton to younger politicians. Read Ful...

NFL fans have sounded their disapproval at plans for Donald Trump to award New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing last week's Trump-inspired riots at the US Capitol as the reason. Read F...

Social media giant Twitter was surrounded by police and reporters, all biting their nails over a projected crowd of Trump supporters allegedly planning to descend on the building over the president’s ban. They never showed up. Read Fu...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has freewheeled into his latest controversy after being spotted cycling more than seven miles away from Downing Street, despite Covid-19 rules restricting people to their local area. Read Full Article at ...

As Boris Johnson and his band of incompetents continue to bungle their way through the coronavirus pandemic, don’t be surprised if they turn to football in a bid to distract attention from their own failings. Read Full Article at RT.c...

A prominent ultranationalist activist has lost her role at a prestigious Austrian research institute after evidence arose linking her with a far-right Ukrainian group, known for extremism and antisemitism. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Derbyshire police and the region’s crime commissioner have apologised to two women who were fined £200 each for driving five miles to go for a walk while England is in a national lockdown.  Read Full Article at RT.com

As the nation's hospitals begin to run out of beds and morgues reach capacity amid a continued spike in Covid-19 cases and fatalities, authorities in the UK have been forced to turn to a temporary mortuary in a Surrey woodland. Read Ful...

Russian swimmer Yekaterina Nekrasova has set what is believed to be a new world record for the longest under-ice swim on Lake Baikal, traveling 85 meters (279ft) under 25cm of ice without a diving suit. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) has launched an investigation into disbarring President Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, after he addressed a crowd of Trump supporters who went on to storm the Capitol. Read Full Article at ...

Three months after Russia oversaw a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the two countries’ leaders to Moscow to negotiate the next steps in keeping the peace in Nagorno-Karabakh. Read Full A...

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday that Turkey has offered to resume exploratory talks with Greece on hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean, as Ankara wants to improve ties with the European Union. Read Full A...

It's not quite nuking the virus but the world’s battle against Covid-19 might go from waves of infection to microwaves, under proposals from Russian and Uzbekistani scientists that could see patients treated with radiation. Read Full ...

The UK’s vaccine minister has said the programme of Covid-19 inoculations could run 24 hours a day, seven days a week so as to immunise as many people as possible as quickly as possible. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ireland’s medical system is stretched, its prime minister has said. The new fast spreading Covid-19 variant accounts for almost half of new cases there, while seasonal indoor gatherings also contributed to rapid transmission. Read Ful...

The Turkish government has launched an investigation into Facebook and WhatsApp after changes to the messaging app’s terms and conditions force users to share personal data with its corporate parent Facebook. Read Full Article at RT.c...

First Lady Melania Trump has denounced the Capitol Hill riot, writing that “violence is never acceptable.” However, Mrs. Trump was blasted for offering sympathy for Ashli Babbitt, the Trump supporter shot dead by police. Read Full A...

A large majority of Japanese residents believe the Tokyo Olympics should be canceled or postponed, as Covid-19 concerns continue to grow in the country following another recent surge of the virus. Read Full Article at RT.com

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has concerns that Twitter's “problematic” suspension of Donald Trump's account, in the wake of last week's assault on the Capitol, is an encroachment on freedom of opinion, her spokesman said. Read Fu...

The Welsh health minister has called on people to wear a face mask in public places as the UK faces soaring infection rates and a race to vaccinate people against Covid-19 during the winter months. Read Full Article at RT.com

The State of Palestine has become the first Middle Eastern country to approve Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for coronavirus, one day after Algeria became the first African country to do the same. Read Full Article at RT.com

The transition to democracy would have been easier for former Soviet countries if the USSR had continued to exist in some form, former president Mikhail Gorbachev has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

The volume of cargo transported via Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) is constantly growing and has increased by 4.7 percent year-on-year in 2020, said the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom. Read Full Article at RT.com

The House of Representatives have unveiled a single article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, accusing the president of “engag[ing] in insurrection or rebellion against” the US. Read Full Article at RT.com

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned that time is running out to revive the Iran nuclear deal as Tehran ups its uranium enrichment program and threatens to reduce access for inspectors. Read F...

In a galaxy far, far away, astronomers have discovered an incredibly beautiful phenomenon which sees a star-bursting ring surrounding a supermassive black hole, like the petals of a rose. Read Full Article at RT.com

Cries of censorship as well as gloating posts could be seen online after the conservative-targeting social media platform Parler went offline early Monday, following US tech companies’ moves to block the network. Read Full Article at ...

Recently shutdown social media app Parler is at the center of a yet another controversy, after allegations surfaced that the totality of its users' personal data was leaked in the wake of the network going offline. Read Full Article at ...

Recognizing the “precious contribution” women make to the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has formally allowed them to undertake more tasks during Mass. The priesthood remains reserved for men only, however, he confirmed. Read Full Ar...

Cristiano Ronaldo has left some fans questioning as to whether he is subject to the generally accepted laws of gravity after he was seen soaring above the Sassuolo defence during Sunday's 3-1 win Serie A win for Juventus. Read Full Arti...

President-elect Joe Biden has nominated career diplomat William Burns to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming that Americans will “sleep soundly” with Burns at the helm of the shadowy intel service. Read Fu...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has issued an order advancing plans to construct hundreds of settlement homes in the West Bank. Opposition politicians warn the move risks tensions with the incoming Biden administration in the US. Read Ful...

Boxer and former pro footballer Curtis Woodhouse was among those to hit out at perceived double-standards as fans of English minnows Marine massed to witness the arrival of Jose Mourinho's Spurs ahead of an FA Cup tie. Read Full Article...

Brazil will be the next country – after India, China, and South Korea – to produce Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus. The production lines will start operating later this week. Read Full Article at RT.com

British retailers have said shop workers are being abused when they encourage people to wear face masks in-store, and that it is the police's job to make people follow health measures designed to stem the spread of coronavirus. Read Ful...

The world “won’t get back to normal quickly” by just embracing a herd immunity strategy after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccination programs, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Dr. Dale Fisher has warned. Read Full Article at R...

Former Detroit Red Wings star Pavel Datsyuk has turned to President Vladimir Putin to ask him to look into the details of the “outrageous situation” involving Shiigumen Sergius (aka Father Superior), who was arrested in December. Re...

One young Russian thrill-seeker’s decision to speed over a frozen lake has now landed him in hot water, with police investigating how his car-drawn chariot collided with an oncoming vehicle. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Estonian prime minister has slammed suggestions from opposition MPs that a referendum should be held over the Baltic state's accession to Russia. The idea was proposed as a protest against a law prohibiting same-sex marriage. Read F...

Football-mad UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov showed off his skills in a celebrity game in Dubai, where one burst of pace down the line had fans clamoring for their team to sign up the MMA star. Read Full Article at RT.com

A Stanford University study claims mandatory stay-at-home orders and business closures have “no clear, significant beneficial effect” on Covid-19 case growth and may even lead to more frequent infections in nursing homes. Read Full ...

Twitter shares dropped over eleven percent on Monday after the social networking service permanently removed US President Donald Trump from its platform, following last week’s violent protests by his supporters on Capitol Hill. Read F...

The move by US Tech companies to censor US President Donald Trump has raised concern in Russia, with politicians and IT industry figures expressing concerns about it, and about its potential implications for political freedoms. Read Ful...

Victoria is forcing every person seeking to enter the Australian state to obtain a new permit, including people who live there. Those who flout the new Covid-19 rules risk being slapped with an AU$5,000 ($3,856) fine. Read Full Article ...

China will defend its sovereignty and nobody will stop the process of reunification with Taiwan, the Foreign Ministry said as it condemned the US decision to lift “self-imposed restrictions” on its interactions with the territory. R...

Just days after rolling out its new policy obliging users to share their data with Facebook, WhatsApp has suffered an embarrassing privacy breach, with its private chat groups being indexed on Google’s search engine. Read Full Article...

‘Good Morning Britain’ host Piers Morgan has been accused of Tier 4 hypocrisy after confessing that he spent Christmas in the Caribbean, despite lecturing people about the evils of non-essential travel during the Covid-19 crisis. Re...

Iran’s foreign ministry has slammed the interventionist statements of the American and French governments, insisting Tehran’s seizure of a South Korean flagged tanker was not political, but due to environmental pollution. Read Full ...

The decision to strip Donald Trump's Bedminster golf course as the host of the 2022 PGA Championship amid last week's riots at the US Capitol has left some of his most ardent supporters renewing claims of "cancel culture". Read Full Art...

A record 12,400 freight-train trips between China and Europe were made in 2020, according to the China State Railway Group. That’s up 50 percent from the previous year, the railway operator said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Oxygen supplies at a hospital overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients have “reached a critical situation,” with doctors making the decision to reduce the target range for oxygen levels in patients’ blood. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Professor Chris Whitty has expressed concern that the UK is in the midst of the “most dangerous time” of the pandemic, as cases continue to rise at a rapid rate before the rollout of the vaccine has had a positive impact. Read Full ...

Russian skiing champion Yuliya Stupak celebrated her silver medal at the Tour de Ski eccentrically, expressing her joy at the award ceremony with some ice-melting dance skills on the podium. Read Full Article at RT.com

Three months ago, he was behind bars serving an 11-and-a-half-year prison term for alleged kidnapping. Now, Sadyr Japarov has been elected as President of Kyrgyzstan, securing an overwhelming victory with 79 percent of the vote. Read Fu...

Many protesters who shot to infamy for their role in the US Capitol building riot are already in police custody, but the FBI is having trouble finding a prominent demonstrator who was seen carrying a Confederate flag. Read Full Article ...

While mass protests and civil unrest would be enough to drive almost any president nuts, Belarus’ veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko has said the opposition are out of their tree if they think they can get to him that easily. Read Fu...

Speaking to the British media, former White House communications director and Trump critic Anthony Scaramucci has called for the president to be jailed for inciting the riot at the US Capitol on January 6.  Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Dana White is expecting to meet reigning UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov during the latest "Fight Island" residency where he says he hopes to finally persuade the undefeated Russian to return for one last fight. Read Full A...

Tesla is shaking up the competition once again with the release of its new Model Y in China for a lower-than-expected price that’s reportedly causing a run of advance orders.  Read Full Article at RT.com

Conor McGregor’s first fight against Dustin Poirier lasted just 106 seconds but the Irishman has predicted he will dismantle his rival even more quickly when they meet at UFC 257 later this month. Read Full Article at RT.com

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that he intends to designate the Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization, while acknowledging that the move will create hurdles for delivering aid to war-torn Yemen. Read Full ...

Around 15 million people in Britain will have been offered Covid-19 vaccines by the middle of February, minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Monday, urging citizens to behave as if they already have the virus to stop the spread. Read Full Art...

Joseph Stalin is a divisive figure in modern Russia. Some regard the Georgian as a war hero who helped crush the Nazis. For others, he is a despicable tyrant, accused of murdering millions during his brutal reign of terror. Read Full Ar...

Bitcoin and other digital coins tumbled on Monday, wiping some $190 billion from the entire cryptocurrency market. The sell-off could signal some profit-taking by investors, experts say. Read Full Article at RT.com

The South Korean president has expressed the hope that humanitarian cooperation with Pyongyang could lead to a “grand breakthrough” in the cold relationship. The North, however, already brushed off such issues as “inessential.” ...

RT’s award-winning creative in-house agency is rolling out a fresh webpage, presenting the team’s most interesting digital craft over the years. Read Full Article at RT.com

The launch of a nationwide vaccination program, along with highly positive reports on quarterly earnings by Indian technology giants, have sent Indian stocks to record-breaking highs. Read Full Article at RT.com

Parler has dropped offline after Amazon kicked the conservative-friendly site off its hosting service in the early hours of Monday morning, following Apple and Google’s move to block the fledgling social network over the weekend. Read...

An international team of experts from the World Health Organization is expected to arrive in China this week to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, as the country registers a sharp uptick in new cases. Read Full Article...