Moscow’s diplomats in Washington have reacted furiously to the latest in a series of military drills carried out by American sailors off Russia’s southern coast, which is almost 9,000km away from the US mainland. Read Full Article a...

The head of the UK’s genetic surveillance program, Sharon Peacock, has warned that the Covid-19 variant detected in Kent is “going to sweep the world,” becoming the most dominant strain of the virus. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Researchers using the joint Russian-European ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter have detected water vapor ascending to the upper atmosphere of Mars, adding further to the body of evidence that the Red Planet was once partially blue. Read Full Ar...

The United States has sold more than a million barrels of Iranian fuel seized under its sanctions program last year, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing the US Department of Justice. Read Full Article at RT.com

Carlo Ancelotti is renowned as one of the coolest customers in football so it was perhaps little surprise that the Everton boss was unmoved despite his team snatching a dramatic winner in an FA Cup thriller against Spurs. Read Full Arti...

A 60-year-old woman had died in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, becoming the second confirmed Ebola fatality in a week amid fears of a new epidemic after an earlier outbreak was declared 'over' in November. Read Full Art...

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have already died of Covid-19. Despite this, the country’s government has announced a new ban on safe and efficacious vaccines that could potentially put an end to the deadly pandemic. Read Full Article...

Credit card major Mastercard will begin allowing clients to make payments in certain cryptocurrencies on its network this year, becoming the latest major corporation to embrace digital coins. Read Full Article at RT.com

The West’s mistake with Russia was expecting it to Westernize without any prospect of integration into Western institutions. NATO and the EU wanted a say in Moscow’s affairs while denying it a voice in broader European issues. Read ...

Anger over proposed legislation that would ramp up security at Greek universities spilled over into the streets of Athens, as activists tossed Molotov cocktails during pitched battles with police. Read Full Article at RT.com

India and China have agreed to pull back troops from the contested border in the western Himalayas, the Indian defense minister has said. The disengagement, reached after painstaking talks, has started from the Pangong lake area. Read F...

Oil prices could go as high as $100 a barrel next year on the back of “very easy monetary policy” and reflation trade, Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects, told Bloomberg in an interview. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Social media users have sharpened their pitchforks after it was revealed that Lucasfilm axed ‘Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano. Conservatives claim she was wrongfully ‘canceled’ from the show due to her political beliefs. Read Full...

Facebook has taken down the Instagram page of former president John F. Kennedy’s nephew – a prominent vaccine critic with 800,000 subscribers. The tech giant has recently stepped up its offensive on what it deems Covid-19 disinfo. R...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has said the city will briefly shutter five coronavirus vaccination sites – including the massive operation at Dodger Stadium – due to a lack of doses, calling the shortages an “enormous hurdle.” ...

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell was treated to a lesson in English literature after attempting to correct Senator Ted Cruz’s use of a Shakespeare quote, wrongly crediting the line to William Faulkner despite holding a degree in the subject. R...

‘Mandalorian’ co-star Gina Carano will not be making another appearance on the hit show, Lucasfilm announced, after she was accused of comparing Republicans to Jews living in Nazi Germany in an Instagram post. Read Full Article at R...

House impeachment managers presented video evidence of the US Capitol riot in their bid to convict former president Donald Trump for inciting the attack, showing apparently narrow escapes from danger by Mitt Romney and Mike Pence. Read ...

The NBA said all teams will have to play the national anthem, rebuffing a move by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to stop the tradition, even after the turn-off-the-music call was endorsed by the Biden administration. Read Full Articl...

Hand-wringing over Alexey Navalny is but an excuse to target Russia, and the EU should not lecture anyone about human rights when it turns its back on Julian Assange and other cases closer to home, Irish MEP Clare Daly told RT. Read Ful...

US Representative Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota) inadvertently appeared with his head upside down and his body missing as he participated virtually in a House committee meeting, providing the polarized Congress a rare moment of levity. Read Fu...

A second actor has come forward accusing blockbuster filmmaker Joss Whedon of ill-treating his actors on set. Charisma Carpenter, who worked with Whedon in the 1990s, has voiced her support for Justice League’s Ray Fisher. Read Full A...

Columnist Nathan J. Robinson has revealed that the Guardian fired him over a sarcastic tweet about US aid to Israel, even though he deleted it and agreed to never bring up the issue in the hope of keeping his job. Read Full Article at R...

President Joe Biden has launched a military task force to assess US policy toward Beijing, vowing to confront the “China challenge” as he continues his predecessor’s naval deployments in the country’s backyard. Read Full Article...

Beleaguered Brits weary of Covid-19 lockdowns shouldn't pin their hopes on being able to venture out for summer vacations, even domestically, as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is warning that it's too soon to book such trips. Read Full...

Neera Tanden, Joe Biden’s nominee for budget director, was pressed over her history of insulting tweets and corporate coziness. However, neither party took her to task for suggesting that Libya pay for its own bombing. Read Full Artic...

Lockdown restrictions in Germany will be extended until March 7, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 state governors agreed on Wednesday, in an attempt to stop Covid-19 variants undermining falling infection rates. Read Full...

The US Centers for Disease Control have reached out to movie-lovers with a montage of classic Hollywood scenes, masking up both heroes and villains. About as subtle as a sledgehammer, the message didn’t land quite right. Read Full Art...

After facing a backlash for its reluctance to extend coronavirus vaccinations to the Palestinian territories, Israel has finally started administering Covid-19 jabs to Palestinians, but only if they legally work in Israel. Read Full Art...

The CDC are now saying one mask is good but two are better, urging Americans to wear tight-fitting cloth masks under medical ones so as to increase protection against the spread of the coronavirus. Read Full Article at RT.com

A Russian MP who attended a protest supporting opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been accused of breaking corruption laws after monetizing his YouTube channel. He says he is being targeted to stop him from running in elections. Read ...

Between 350,000 and 500,000 health workers in South Africa are to be given the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, a top government medical adviser said, amid concerns over the AstraZeneca jab’s efficacy against the local strain. Read...

Schoolteachers have agreed to return to classrooms in Chicago, ending one of the most high-profile battles to get unions to go along with reopening schools shuttered amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but the deal comes with strings. Read Full...

Students at the University of California, Berkeley are banned from outdoor exercising as the campus extends its lockdown due to a reported spike in Covid-19 cases. Initially set to finish on Monday, it no longer has an end date. Read Fu...

Khabib Nurmagomedov has said Dagestan must learn from the mistakes of current generations and ensure the region’s children are brought up in the right way. Read Full Article at RT.com

NASA is warning of a slew of asteroids headed Earth’s way in the coming days and weeks, some coming between us and the moon, with others measuring roughly the same size as the Golden Gate Bridge. Read Full Article at RT.com

The prime minister of Sri Lanka has announced in parliament that the country will reverse its earlier decision to prohibit the burial of Muslims who died of Covid-19, after international outcry over the ban. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Khabib Nurmagomedov says he will be relieved to no longer hold the UFC lightweight title as the Russian star doubled down on his retirement stance and urged fans not to read anything into his meetings with Dana White. Read Full Article ...

Western media has jumped down the rabbit hole into another Kremlin killing conspiracy after a doctor in the Siberian city of Omsk died suddenly – taking to the grave, they say, secrets about opposition figure Alexey Navalny. Read Full...

Given his country’s geopolitical importance to the bloc, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal might have expected a smoother ride on his visit to the European Union in Brussels this week. Read Full Article at RT.com

Police in Beverly Hills have been accused of playing copyrighted music while speaking to a local activist, in an apparent bid to trigger a content-blocking feature and keep videos of the encounters off social media. Read Full Article at...

A criminal probe into the 2020 US presidential election, launched by the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, will look at former President Trump asking the secretary of state to “find” votes, according to media reports. Rea...

Alexey Sorokin, Russia's Euro 2020 Organizing Committee chief, says the country has the "most favorable circumstances" of all host nations to hold the football tournament with regard to the Covid-19 pandemic in an interview to RT. Read ...

Former President Donald Trump will never be allowed back on Twitter, even if he runs for office again in 2024 and wins, company Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal told CNBC. Read Full Article at RT.com

Polish model Kasia Lenhardt was found dead in a Berlin apartment just a week after breaking up with German World Cup winner and Bayern Munich star Jerome Boateng Read Full Article at RT.com

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has teased an ultra-customizable new platform allowing users to build the ultimate echo chamber by picking out the “ranking algorithms” that shape their feed – as Twitter’s own usefulness diminishes. ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Turkey’s new highly ambitious 10-year space program including lunar missions, Turkish astronauts in space, and the development of a sophisticated satellite network. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A tsunami activity advisory has been issued in New Zealand after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck near the Loyalty Islands, the country’s National Emergency Management Agency said on Wednesday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was unable to travel to Germany to attend his mother’s funeral on Tuesday due to ongoing travel restrictions imposed because of Covid-19. Read Full Article at RT.com

Israel Defense Forces soldiers have complained of their commanders’ inability to effectively curb Covid-19 outbreaks and provide timely treatment or proper quarantine conditions, according to the military ombudsman. Read Full Article ...

Chinese space probe Tianwen-1 has successfully reached Mars and entered a stable orbit around the Red Planet. The spacecraft is expected to deploy a rover to study the planet’s surface in around three months. Read Full Article at RT.c...

At least 36 recipients of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines in the US have developed a rare immune disorder that attacks the blood, according to reports. One patient is dead, and doctors can’t rule out blaming the vaccine. ...

Twitter has refused to follow an order from Prime Minister Modi’s administration to permanently suspend more than 1,000 accounts the Indian government claims are spreading disinformation about the farmers’ protests in the country. R...

The European Commission president has defended Brussels’ decision to lead a collective, EU-wide approach to vaccine procurement and deployment but admits the body had been overly optimistic and too slow to authorize the jabs. Read Ful...

Covid-19 testing in Russia just got much quicker. On Wednesday, the country's health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor announced the development of an innovative high-precision test which will speed up the process by three-to-four times. Read Fu...

Conor McGregor is famously fond of all things that glitter and sparkle, so it was perhaps little surprise that the Irish UFC star dined out on a $1,000 gold-plated steak on a visit to celebrity chef Salt Bae. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The latest twist in the never-ending tale of cancel culture in sports has seen the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks banning playing The Star-Spangled Banner before home games, after the league characterised it as "an emotional issue". Read Full...

UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has signalled that vaccine passports may be required for international travel in the future, while insisting that there are still no plans to roll out similar ID for domestic purposes. Read Full Artic...

A poll conducted after two successive weeks of protests in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny has revealed that just 22 percent of Russians were in favor of the rallies, with even fewer willing to join in. Read Full Arti...

The UK will need to re-vaccinate people against Covid-19 later this year because of new variants of the virus that are potentially more resistant to jabs, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned. Read Full Article at RT.com

Yuri Andrade, the Florida man who ran onto the field during the 2021 Super Bowl, has claimed he won $375,000 after betting on his own stunt. Read Full Article at RT.com

Nick Kyrgios edged a late-night nail-biter in Melbourne to progress to the third round of the Australian Open, but as is almost inevitably the case with the Aussie firebrand his clash with Ugo Humbert was not without incident. Read Full...

Bath University mathematician Kit Yates has made the rather fanta-stical claim that all of the coronavirus particles present in the world at any given moment would fit inside a soda can, with room to spare. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

American social-networking company Twitter announced on Wednesday its financial results for the fiscal year 2020, saying it recorded a net loss of $1.136 billion against net income a year earlier. Read Full Article at RT.com

The German government has denied claims by an environmentalist group that it offered Washington ‎€1 billion ($1.21 billion) to boost imports of American liquefied natural gas (LNG) in exchange for dropping Nord Stream 2 sanctions. R...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed Greek proposals to turn the divided island of Cyprus into a federation, insisting the only viable option is to create two separate states. Read Full Article at RT.com

8 criminals were arrested by Europol on Tuesday following an international investigation into the theft of $100 million of cryptocurrencies through sim swapping attacks that targeted celebrities and high-profile figures. Read Full Artic...

In what might be cyber warfare’s most minor skirmish yet, Ukrainian officials are leading a charge to strip an account belonging to Russia’s representatives on the disputed Crimean peninsula of its verified status on Twitter. Read F...

Relations between Russia and the West are in choppy waters, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who says the Black Sea is the new battleground in the US-led bloc’s fight for influence and control in the region. Read ...

Iran’s foreign minister has warned that Tehran is willing to take further action and reduce cooperation with International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors if the US and European powers fail to comply with the nuclear pact. Read Full A...

New research from India suggests that a deficiency of the protein Alpha-anti-trypsin (AAT) in populations across Europe and North America may have contributed to the comparatively rapid spread of Covid-19 when compared with Asia. Read F...

Beijing’s Defense Ministry has announced the organized disengagement of Chinese and Indian armed forces along the Line of Actual Control, the disputed border in the Himalayas. Read Full Article at RT.com

Japan’s vaccination drive has hit a snag after it was discovered that the country lacks proper syringes to extract the maximum number of doses from each vial. The hiccup could result in millions of people being denied the drug. Read F...

Mohamed Salah is the African equivalent of Lionel Messi, according to Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, although the German claimed the Champions League holders were not preparing to swoop for the Egyptian star. Read Full Article...

With artificial intelligence (AI) steadily progressing, concerns have been growing about how much innovation is too much. Cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright offers his forecast for the industry. Read Full Article at RT.com

Facing harsh criticism back home from Western politicians for his friendly tone at meetings in Moscow last week, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has now struck a harder line, calling for new sanctions against Russia. Read Full Art...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has slammed comments made by Canada’s intelligence director after he said Beijing was doing everything in its power to threaten Canada’s national security and sovereignty. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Cambridge University scientists have made a “significant step forward” in the quest to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease, as new research gives greater insight into a key protein that plays an important role in the brain. Read F...

Elton John and Michael Caine have been drafted in by the NHS to encourage at-risk groups to book their Covid-19 jabs in a tongue-in-cheek video, but not everyone was impressed with the star power on display. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Just last week the AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab received a top-level welcome in South Africa, but the country’s health minister now says it may sell or swap its stock, after a study questioned its efficacy against the local strain. Read F...

Bare-knuckle boxing star Britain Hart admits her post-fight thoughts “came out a little crazy” after she went viral for screaming “I’m not a person, I'm a feeling” after ruining ex-MMA poster girl Paige VanZant’s BKFC debut....

Europe’s three largest cities lie outside the European Union, or four if you count Istanbul, and 40% of people on the continent are not citizens of the bloc. This hasn’t prevented Brussels from trying to hijack European identity. Re...

Italian ace Sara Errani has become the object of online debate with fans accusing her of bad sportsmanship after she threw in a drop shot against an injured Venus Williams to win her Australian Open match. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts India will account for the biggest share of energy demand growth over the next two decades. The nation is projected to become the world's third-largest energy consumer by 2030. Read Full Ar...

The British transport secretary has said he doesn't know when restrictions on international travel will be lifted, adding that legally being able to go on holiday will depend on progress with Covid-19 vaccinations here and abroad. Read ...

A strange object lit up the skies above Florida, with wild speculation across social media about whether 2021 would be the year aliens make contact with Earth. Alas, the leading theory points to a sinister but terrestrial origin. Read F...

Russian teen tennis queen Anastasia Potapova will face a baptism of fire in her first ever Grand Slam 3rd round appearance as she takes on 23-time major champion Serena Williams at the Australian Open on Friday. Read Full Article at RT....

Rapid recovery from the coronavirus crisis helped China and some East Asian nations boost their share of global trade in 2020, while most economies suffered a steep drop in both exports and imports, according to a UN report. Read Full A...

A member of the WHO team sent to China to probe the origins of Covid-19 in the country has shrugged off Washington’s demand to verify the mission’s findings, saying US intelligence on the matter should be viewed with skepticism. Rea...

Russia has placed a high-profile associate of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny on the interstate wanted list over his alleged role in organizing two weekends of unauthorized demonstrations in cities across the country. Read Full ...

The entire stock of a pig farm in Hong Kong has been ordered to be culled after a rare outbreak of African swine fever was detected in the Chinese autonomous region. While the disease is deadly for pigs, it does not affect humans. Read ...

A historic doughnut joint in Atlanta, Georgia has caught fire, causing pastry lovers to mourn. Videos posted to social media show firefighters scrambling to extinguish the inferno. Read Full Article at RT.com

Skirmishes broke out in Jerusalem between police and ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting against Covid-19 restrictions, creating chaotic scenes that have become commonplace in the Israeli city. Read Full Article at RT.com

Amid a global shortage of semiconductors, the US auto manufacturing industry is scaling back production this month, including that of the top-selling US vehicle. Read Full Article at RT.com

Retired Navy officer Kenneth Caldwell, who is accused of leading Oath Keepers militia members in last month’s US Capitol riot, formerly held a top-secret security clearance as an FBI section chief and consultant, his lawyer said. Read...

The Aunt Jemima brand is no more, with PepsiCo restyling the decades-old trade name to the ‘Pearl Milling Company’ in a bid to cut racial stereotypes from its products – a move netizens panned as a hollow gesture of ‘wokeness.�...

In a likely blow to parents’ expectations, the Biden administration has said its pledge to reopen most K-8 schools within its first 100 days means “at least one day a week” of in-person classes for over 50 percent of schools. Read...

The Joe Biden administration will continue to pursue extradition for Julian Assange, the Justice Department said, rebuffing calls from rights groups to reverse course ahead of an appeal deadline in the WikiLeaks co-founder’s case. Rea...

Even as the UK's National Health System (NHS) suffers the world's highest Covid-19 death rate, one of its hospital trusts has found time to instruct staffers to use gender-neutral language so transgender people won't be offended. Read F...

Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson & Johnson, has said people may need Covid-19 vaccines annually for the next several years following his company applying for emergency use authorization for its own one-dose shot. Read Full Article at RT.com ...