Delta Airlines has been forced to apologize after kicking a family off an overbooked plane in a row over a child's seat. At a Senate hearing Thursday, May 4, the airlines were threatened with a "Passenger Bill of Rights."
Russia bears the special responsibility of implementing the agreement on the establishment of four safe, or de-escalation, zones in Syria, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Friday.
The majority of the French citizens consider the idea to return country's national currency franc while using euro at the same time unrealistic, an OpinionWay poll showed Friday.
Independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has improved his lead over right-wing Marine Le Pen by 2.5 percent since Wednesday and is expected to win the second round of the election with 61.5 percent against her 38.5 percent, a fresh Ipsos poll revealed Friday.
The first few months of 2017 have seen a significant increase in Russian bilateral trade with Germany and China.
Rats and rodents have consumed over a million liters of alcohol, according to police in an eastern Indian state, when they were asked to account for the missing alcohol.
Foreign investors will be able to receive Turkish citizenship in the case that they invest $1.5 million into the country's economy through direct investments or purchase of real estate.
As the EU prepares for Brexit, France votes on two euroskeptics and Brussels battles with Greece, Hungary and Poland, a group of MEPs have called for massive reforms of the "misguided and dangerous model of a centralized federal European state."
The Russian Embassy in London has decided to poke some light fun at The Times newspaper's expense, responding to a story about alleged EU meddling in Britain's upcoming parliamentary elections.
Russia may start selling vegetable oil to Turkey in June.
The works of photo correspondents from Sputnik news agency and radio, and VGTRK cameramen were included in the exhibition Syria: A Photo Chronicle of the War, held at the Russian Federation Permanent Mission to International Organizations in Vienna.
Sweden needs more police officers to be hired to enhance crime clearance rates, Swedish Police Union (Polisforbundet) said in a statement on Friday, adding that changes within the police organization also affected quality of police work.
Palestinian Ambassador to Russia said that asuccessful solution to the Palestinian issue requires the joint efforts on the part of both Moscow and Washington.
Lithuania mobilized 2,000 reservists for the Lightning Strike 2017, the largest Lithuania's military exercises, according to the press service of the country's Defense Ministry.
After North Korea, arguably the world's most secluded state, staggered the outer world with its intention to settle its debt to Finland of 26 million euros. Afterwards, Sweden remembered that Pyongyang owes it as well. However, the reminder was unnecessary, for such things as a country's largest single debt claim are obviously hard to forget.
A suspected member of the Daesh and Jabhat Fatah al Sham terror groups, both outlawed in Russia, was detained in the eastern German state of Saxony, local media reported on Friday.
A prominent Polish politician has recommended that the West eliminate its economic sanctions against Russia while at the same time increasing political pressure on Moscow.
The armed Syrian opposition must comply with the latest arrangement on de-escalation zones, Russian Deputy Foreign Minsiter Mikhail Bogdanov said Friday.
Russia's shipborne Ka-52K Katran combat helicopters are best suited for Egypt’s Mistral warships, an official representative of Russia’s Centre for Analysis of World Arms Trade (CAWAT) told Sputnik on Friday.
Local elections were held across the United Kingdom with a total of 4,851 council seats up for election, the Conservatives won 561 seats, increasing its previous results by 155, while the Labour Party lost 125 seats and gained 404 seats, according to local media.
The chances of French independent presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron to defeat right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round of the election rose by 1 percent since Thursday, a fresh OpinionWay poll showed Friday.
In a rare moment of honesty, Ukrainian Armed Forces officials took time out to criticize the sorry state of the country's army, particularly its military equipment and weapons stocks. This follows Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's fantastical claims that Ukraine's army was "the only reason" Russia has not yet begun an invasion of Europe.
According to a new study by the United Nations World Food Programme, Worsening food insecurity is one of the key factors triggering global migration, and along with poverty, not having adequate food supplies provokes armed conflicts.
Turns out you don't need a drone to take an aerial selfie.
We start off this week by discussing Trump’s budget deal and explaining why some of his supporters have decried it as a shameless sellout of his promised agenda.