Life can evolve, even on icy alien worlds, according to a new study from Cornell University. If a planet has hydrogen-spewing volcanoes to warm the atmosphere, the study posits, it could have the right conditions to become habitable for life, even if it is outside the ‘habitable zone’ of its star.
Israel has decriminalized recreational marijuana use, and will study regulations to perhaps begin a legal cannabis industry.
The major scandal involving the Roman Catholic Church saw new developments on Monday, with the start of a trial of former priest Roman accused of pedophilia, in Spain.
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol says that the International Energy Agency is witnessing the oil market rebalance after producers started implementing the deal to reduce output.
On Saturday, the jets’ trip from Amberley, Queensland, to Melbourne, Victoria, was postponed as the warplane was found to be incapable of flying through an ongoing lightning storm over its destination, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Bernie Sanders claims that Trump’s new executive order on immigration is discriminatory and will boost terrorists’ recruitment efforts.
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak claims that the uncertainty remains on the global oil market despite the agreement between OPEC and non-OPEC leading producers to cut production output.
The Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that claims by US officials and media that Russia meddled in the US affairs have damaged the US-Russian relations.
The Pentagon’s official tally of civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria appears to be massively underreported, as it is far below the estimates by NGOs keeping track in the region.
Canadian Minister of National Defense Harjit Sajjan said that the government would extend its military training mission in Ukraine by two years.
While icicles are pretty to look at, they’re just as equally dangerous to be around... especially if you find yourself standing underneath them.
Azerbaijan kept its pledge to cut oil production in February, the press service of the Azerbaijani Energy Ministry told Sputnik on Monday.
The members of the political committee of France's center-right The Republicans party unanimously expressed support of Francois Fillon.
Japan’s Self-Defense Forces found a cylindrical item that may be a fragment of the North Korean missile launched earlier on Monday, local media reported.
Of late, feminist Sweden has been trying to re-establish its image as a citadel of equality, following the damage done by the wave of sexual assaults that made international headlines. In this connection, a series of tweets by a renowned war reporter have hardly made things better for Sweden.
The Indian space agency aims to rope in and expand private sector participation to augment capabilities and tap the commercial market to drive innovation, entrepreneurship, and job creation, says expert.
A total of 37 percent of the US nationals are "very concerned" about reports that US President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign associates had contacts with "Russian operatives" and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak, a CNN/ORC poll showed Monday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are far from agreeing on common approach to a number of key aspects of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
French President Francois Hollande has said a multi-speed European Union, with differing speeds of integration for certain countries, is necessary to avoid the bloc "exploding" - although a Bulgarian MEP has said such a prospect would amount to apartheid, and destroy the bloc.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran on Monday for 80 percents of his country’s security problems.
French far-right National Front (FN) party leader Marine Le Pen’s victory prospects in the May run-off presidential elections increased by 2 percent over the weekend, in case she competes against independent candidate Emmanuel Macron, a poll showed Monday.
Germany's armed forces depots are almost completely empty. The Bundeswehr has ordered new ammunition to fill their rapidly shrinking reserves, according to Die Welt.
The US-led coalition carried out 17 strikes consisting of 83 engagements against Daesh terrorist group in Syria and Iraq on Sunday, including two near Manbij, Operation Inherent Resolve said in a press release.
Indian Army has not inducted modern assault rifles for long due to failure in developing local made rifles as per the requirement of army.
The South Korean special prosecution team confirmed on Monday that suspended South Korean President Park Geun-hye was involved in the corruption scheme, local media reported.