Chinese stunt driver Han Yue teamed up with Red Bull and Nürburgring GmbH to set a new Guinness World Record in a particularly unusual racing category – “the fastest side wheelie lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife in a car.” Can you guess how much time it took him to complete the task?
Words like like "more needs to be done" and "yet more evidence" are being tweeted about gender stereotyping after research revealed some girls at the age of six are already starting to believe boys are better at doing "smarter tasks."
Friday: UK Prime Minister Theresa May touches down in the USA ahead of meeting with President Trump; President Trump announces a strong backing for the use of torture and will the Muslim Brotherhood be designated as a terrorist group by the US?
Greece's creditors have demanded more assurances from the Greek Government over reforms to its tax and public spending regimes after 2018, piling more pressure on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who is already facing low popularity ratings over the harsh austerity measures being imposed on his country, Sputnik has been told.
The photos of an unknown rocket carried by a Chinese J-11B fighter jet have raised questions about whether Beijing is developing a new super-long-range air-to-air missile. Speaking to Sputnik, Russian military expert Vasily Kashin shed some light on China's mysterious missile system.
Senator John McCain has seemingly got hysterical amid reports about the possible lifting of US sanctions against Russia.
The Prague district court rejected an appeal of the Somali-born student, who accused the authorities of a Czech nursing school of discriminating against her because she wears a hijab, according to media reports.
The political tension in Sweden is heating up and as the country heads to the polls in September 2018 they have entered a campaign period where the center right opposition party is taking a bold initiative and may look to embrace the far-right as a supposed "means to an end."
3,829 migrants and refugees entered Europe by the Mediterranean Sea in 2017, over two thirds arrived in Italy and the rest in Greece, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Donald Trump Senior Counselor Kellyanne Conway said Mexico derived its main income from the money of its citizens working in the United States.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Switzerland "wrongly exposed a Tamil asylum seeker to torture" by deporting him and his family back to Sri Lanka in 2013.
The attorney of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, jailed in the United States, hopes the new administration to address his request soon.
Memory and truth are the weapons against evil, the polish prime minister said during an event commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet soldiers.
Police in Cockrell Hill, a city within the city of Dallas, Texas, have admitted losing years' worth of evidence after their server was infected with ransomware.
On Friday, Aerospace Defense Forces Commander Viktor Bondarev confirmed that Russia's MiG-35 strike fighter would eventually be armed with laser weaponry. Speaking to Sputnik, military aircraft expert Col. Makar Aksenenko explained why it is absolutely critical for Russia to equip its air forces with these advanced and cost-effective planes.
An international team of scientists have created a human-pig hybrid, the world's first. The scientists created the hybrid by injecting human stem cells, which can develop into any type of body tissue, into pig embryos.
Russian businessman Viktor Bout's legal team is preparing an appeal to the US Supreme court, according to Bout's attorney Alexey Tarasov.
Jo Stevens said she believed Brexit was "a terrible mistake" and that she could not vote for the measure that would make it unavoidable.
People who spend more of their time naked are happier than their clothed counterparts, according to a UK scientist.
A terrorist cell, linked to the Daesh, was dismantled in Morocco, according to Morocco’s Interior Ministry.
The WTO's arbitration panel said Russia violated several rules when introducing excessive anti-dumping duties on exports of Italian and German light commercial vehicles.
Saudi Arabia attempted to bribe parliamentarians in order to persuade them to oppose the Syrian government, an MP tells Sputnik.
The situation with US military bases in Okinawa continues to heat up. Recently new protests erupted following the refusal of the national government to relocate Futenma base and the handing back of 10,000 acres of US training grounds to Japan in exchange for the construction of six helipads nearby.
US President Trump's decision to quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has prompted a heated debate. While advocates of the deal argue that America's withdrawal from the TPP has directly played into the hands of China, their opponents say the US president has taken a step in the right direction.
Economic growth slowed more than forecast in Q4 as the trade deficit widened, consumer spending ebbed, and domestic investment picked up only slightly, partly due to a major drop in real estate investment.