Indonesian Man Wins Deadly Battle With 23-Foot-Long Python (PHOTOS)
On Wednesday, an Indonesian security guard wrestled with a huge python that was blocking a road in Riau Province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
On Wednesday, an Indonesian security guard wrestled with a huge python that was blocking a road in Riau Province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Czech Defense Minister Martin Stropnicky announced that the Czech army is planning to send up to 300 servicemen to Iraq in 2018.
Turkey has opened its first overseas military base on the African continent, a large training facility in Somalia meant to train East African soldiers to better combat Islamic terrorism.
A group of Chinese researchers working partly on behalf of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA-N) near the US territory of Guam was being watched by US surveillance aircraft, the South China Morning Post reports.
Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner didn't just die from cardiac arrest and respiratory failure September 27 - a combination of E. coli and septicemia also played a role in the 91-year-old's death.
In January, anti-abortion Republican US Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania told his mistress to get an abortion during a pregnancy scare.
The Daesh militants (outlawed in Russia) shelled al-Villat neighborhood of the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, local media reported Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.
Two MiG-29s arrived on Wednesday from Russia to Belgrade, thereby completing the delivery of six fighters within the framework of the Russian military-technical assistance to Serbia, the Tanjug news agency reported citing its own source in the country's Defense Ministry.
US President Donald Trump stressed Wednesday afternoon that he has “total confidence” in Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, despite disputed reports that Tillerson has been so furious at his boss that he’s on the verge of quitting.
Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has been significantly weakened by June's post-parliamentary election deal with the Conservatives, the spokesman for the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) told Sputnik Wednesday.
Nearly six weeks after the headless, dismembered torso of Swedish journalist Kim Wall was found floating in waters off Copenhagen, authorities have discovered footage of women being tortured on a computer hard drive that allegedly belongs to Wall’s suspected killer, Peter Madsen, a Danish submarine builder and aerospace engineer.
The US Congress approved a Pentagon request to funnel more than $400 million that went unspent in fiscal year 2017 for radar, sensor and missile intercept programs, Pentagon chief James Mattis said Tuesday, as North Korea doubles down on its promise to continue to develop its ballistic missile capabilities in spite of UN sanctions.
Five days ago the US joined 12 other countries in voting against a UN resolution that condemns the usage of the death penalty for apostasy, blasphemy, adultery and consensual same-sex relations.
Four members from the Iranian delegation have been denied entry visas to attend the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation World Championships, set to run in Anaheim, California between November 28 and December 6. Sputnik spoke to an Iranian sports official about the cause of the incident.
Archaeologists in Turkey may have solved a mystery dating back thousands of years, after they discovered an ancient tomb they believe contains the remains of Saint Nicholas, a fourth-century Christian bishop who became popularly known as Santa Claus.
A Russian TV correspondent has been detained by the Ukrainian Security Service while on an assignment in Kiev.
Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized on Wednesday the achievements made by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in improving relations with the opposition.
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1. Speaking to Sputnik Deutschland, veteran cosmonaut Sigmund Jahn, the first German to fly to space, stressed that contemporary cosmonautics' chief goal must be to protect our one and only planet.
Although the Myanmar government has signaled its willingness to bring half a million Rohingya Muslim escapees back from Bangladesh to Rakhine State, the humanitarian crisis is far from being over, UN refugee agency's Duniya Aslam Khan told Radio Sputnik, stressing that asylum seekers continue to flee the conflict zone.
A new draft bill on the restoration of Ukraine's sovereignty over Donbass contradicts the Minsk agreements and blocks the peace process, Russian envoy to the Contact Group on Ukraine Boris Gryzlov said Wednesday.
Moscow and Riyadh will sign a number of investment deals, including a $1.1 agreement on construction of a plant in Saudi Arabia by Russia's Sibur, during the historic official visit to Russia by Saudi King Salman on October 4-7, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with The Financial Times.
Senior US officials including Pentagon Chief Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have gone over President Trump's head to persuade Congress to stick to the Iran nuclear deal. Speaking to Sputnik, Middle East expert Anoushiravan Ehteshami warned that if the US goes ahead and withdraws, its international credibility will take a major hit.
Tourism and real estate in Catalonia currently do not seem to be affected by the unrest caused by the Sunday's independence referendum and the ongoing standoff between the region and Madrid, local business community representatives told Sputnik.
Switzerland's Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank from the United States and Richard Henderson from the United Kingdom on Wednesday received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution."