The United Kingdom will invest 40 million pounds [$50 million] in the development of a technology, which will enhance the defenses of Typhoon fighter jets, according to UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon.
A brother and sister team was arrested in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province Saturday for illegally identifying the sex of fetuses with a mobile ultrasound scanner, local media reported.
The impeached Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Wednesday that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has been convicted of corruption, was not guilty.
Finland has nothing against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, since it will not affect Finnish gas market, according to Liisa Heikinheimo, Deputy Director General in the Energy Department at Finland's Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.
Chinese residents’ per capita disposable income in 2016 has increased by 62.6 percent to 23,821 RMB ($3,501) from 2010 levels, owing to effective measures taken by the Chinese government since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012.
The US-Qatar agreement to curb terrorist funding is unlikely to work because both Doha will not abandon its commitment to support Islamist fundamentalism around the world, former envoy to the UN James Paul told Sputnik.
Legal groups in the United States have filed a lawsuit accusing border officials of blocking refugees fleeing via US-Mexican border from access to asylum process, media reported Wednesday.
The isolation of Qatar by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates is causing serious human rights abuses, according to Human Rights Watch.
Brazilian stocks are rising against the background of court's ruling to sentence Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to almost ten years in prison for corruption.
Daesh (banned in Russia) will seek to expand oil smuggling, human trafficking and opium trade following the liberation of Mosul, former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.
A US media outlet has released a video of President Donald Trump's informal meeting with Azerbaijani-Russian businessman Aras Agalarov in Moscow in 2013.
Debate over police transparency and privacy has been reignited in California after a Democratic lawmaker filed a bill to require police officials to release body camera footage along with any other recordings.
CNN has curiously diminished the role of a major contributor to its Peabody Award-winning documentary “Undercover in Syria,” ostensibly because that contributor is linked to the country’s al-Qaeda affiliate.
A Brazilian court on Wednesday convicted former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for corruption and sentenced him to 9.5 years in prison, local media reported Wednesday.
The meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon can be canceled by Russian side if the issue concerning Russian diplomatic compounds will not be addressed, media reported Thursday, citing a diplomatic source.
Researchers with the University of Cambridge have discovered the smallest star ever observed: larger than Saturn but smaller than Jupiter, with gravity 300 times stronger than the Earth’s and about 11 times stronger than that of the sun.
The US Air Force has awarded the Sierra Nevada Corporation a more than $41-million contract to design, engineer and test a new aircraft for the Airborne Mission Networking System, according to the Pentagon.
German police have detained two suspects in the late-March theft of a 220-pound gold coin from a Berlin museum.
The US Navy has ordered four companies to provide its Tactical Electronic Warfare Division new research costing nearly $100 million, according to the Pentagon.
US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Bahrain's Interior Minister Sheikh Rashed bin Abdulla al Khalifa discussed in Washington, DC the need to boost information sharing between their two countries, according to the US Department of Homeland Security.
Following up his success with "Sully" and "American Sniper," famed Hollywood actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood has selected the real-life American heroes from the 2015 Paris train attack to star in his upcoming film, "The 15:17 to Paris."
Tough luck, carnivores.
NASA has announced that their Juno probe, currently in orbit around Jupiter, has successfully completed a close flyby of the Great Red Spot that is the planet’s most iconic physical feature. Raw data has been returned to Earth, leading to spectacular images of the mammoth storm.
US President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to France is a chance for French President Emmanuel Macron to "distinguish himself," experts told Sputnik, adding that the visit could be beneficial for Trump as well in terms of creating a better image.
Four US Senators have drafted legislation to block the creation of a joint cybersecurity unit with Russia, according to Senator Amy Klobuchar.