There was a theory that we are descended from a long lineage of H. Erectus, that our brains have been getting bigger for millions of years and so on. But discoveries made over the past 15 years have challenged almost every part of this story. How do we now relate to the traditional ‘Savannah Hypothesis’ and to Darwin’s theory of evolution?
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched an operation to kick Daesh (banned in Russia) terrorists out from the areas east of the Euphrates river and the eastern borders of the city of Deir ez-Zor days after it had been unblocked by the Syrian army.
A traffic camera in Russia's Volgograd Region snapped a picture of a speeding car driven by a man who resembled the late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, with a person resembling Jesus sitting in the passenger’s seat.
The Central Intelligence Agency has released some 2,000 pages of formerly classified materials on the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. Military observer Andrei Kotz takes a look at some of the most fascinating conclusions Western intelligence analysts reached about the Soviet Navy's presumed strengths and weaknesses.
Egypt expects a new round of talks on the resumption of flights to Russia to be held in the next few days, a source in the Egyptian government told Sputnik on Saturday.
The Iranian president's deputy communications director stated that Hassan Rouhani will discuss bilateral relations with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev during a visit to Astana.
On Saturday Ukrainian diplomats submitted an updated version of a proposed resolution on a peacekeeping mission in the east of the country to the United Nations Security Council.
Law enforcement agencies launched an investigation into reports about doping by Russian female handball players after the Handball Federation of Russia (HFR) suggested that the news could be a planned provocation.
Myanmar's importance on the "geopolitical chessboard" of US strategy in Asia allows its leadership to remain unscathed despite the outbreak of violence which has forced the Rohingya minority to flee their homes, international lawyer Barry Grossman told Iran's Press TV.
While scientists are ringing alarm bells amid six recent solar flashes, including the biggest one in 12 years, it is just the easy bit if compared to a mechanic contact between the star and the Earth. Here are four scenarios of a really scorching apocalypse.
Russia's Emergencies Ministry said Saturday it is ready to provide assistance to the Caribbean countries hit by the devastating Hurricane Irma, which has been raging in the region since Wednesday.
Our final topic, picked by you, dear listeners, earlier in a poll on our Facebook page, is “North Korea’s H-Bomb: Hyped-Up Or Truly Harmful?”, focusing on the reclusive country’s latest nuclear weapons test.
The first humanitarian aid convoy of 42 trucks arrived in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor on September 7 after the three-year-long Daesh siege was broken just two days previously.
According to media reports, the Syrian Army has liberated the Taim oil field near the town of Deir Ez-Zor from members of the terrorist group Daesh.
The US unexpectedly decreed late last week that Russia had just a couple of days to close its consulate in San Francisco and several other diplomatic facilities in the country, which continues Washington’s new habit of turning Moscow’s diplomats into collateral damage in the New Cold War.
Many of the Muslims of Myanmar who self-describe as “Rohingyas” have fled Rakhine State as refugees to neighboring Bangladesh in response to the military’s crackdown against what it says is an upswing in deadly terrorist attacks against the state authorities there.
According to a source in Russia's emergency services, ten people, including three children, were injured when a passenger train collided with a truck.
According to a defense industry source, the 35th shipbuilding plant in Murmansk, Russia is set to start working on repairing the Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's lone aircraft carrier, in 2018.
The killing of Daesh commanders in a Russian air strike in Syria reflects the establishment of a reliable intelligence network which relays information about terrorist organizations; this input enhanced the Syrian government forces' efforts to lift the siege of Deir ez-Zor, Russian experts told Sputnik.
One solution to the Brexit border issue in Ireland border would see Northern Ireland remain in the EU single market and customs union as a region of the UK, Dr. James Anderson, Emeritus Professor of Political Geography at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, told Radio Sputnik.
According to a representative of Liberty Korea Party, President Moon Jae-in's emphasis on "tentative" nature of the deployment of US THAAD makes it seem as if it could be stopped at any moment.
'Lamborghini: The Legend of Design' auto show kicked off in St. Petersburg on September 8.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov on Saturday denied German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen's claim of 100,000 Russian troops taking part in upcoming Russian-Belarusian Zapad-2017 drills.
Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat said the country must be prepared for a two-front war with Pakistan and China; accused China of “testing our limits.”
The National Bureau of Statistics said that China’s consumer price index rose by 1.8 percent last month.