Small Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Might Reach Sky in 2022
Boeing and JetBlue Airways are backing Zunum Aero, a Seattle-based startup with venture capital arms, aiming to create small airliner with two electric motors.
Boeing and JetBlue Airways are backing Zunum Aero, a Seattle-based startup with venture capital arms, aiming to create small airliner with two electric motors.
If Catalonia secedes from Spain, it could be a precedent for similar developments in Germany, chairman of the Bavarian Party, Florian Weber, said, commenting on experts' recent assumptions that the Catalan scenario may result in the spread of pro-independence aspirations among other EU member states.
The company constructing the Nord Stream-2 has commented on concerns that the latest US sanctions on Russia signed by President Trump might hamper the gas pipeline project.
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has responded to a recent report in The New York Times accusing him of sexual misconduct over a nearly 30 year span. Through his lawyers, he has denied many of the allegations and issued an apology.
England and Germany qualified for next year's World Cup in Russia by virtue of wins on Thursday night, October 5. But two-time winners Argentina drew in Peru and are now in great danger of missing out on the tournament altogether.
Auctions have yielded some of the lowest prices for both wind and solar energy in India. With improving technology and reducing tariffs, the government is not only confident of achieving the clean energy target of 175 GW by 2022, but also of exceeding it.
The Kremlin has called any concerns about Russia-Saudi defense industry cooperation groundless.
Scientists at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) have created an ultrasound system that can diagnose and treat the early stages of cancer.
Enric Millo, the Spanish government's official representative in Catalonia, apologized for police violence during the Catalonian referendum last week.
According to a member of German The Left Party, the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of the bill on the reintegration of Donbass in its current version shows that Kiev would abandon the Minsk accord.
According to the Kremlin spokesman, the Ukrainian bill on reintegration of Donbass is unacceptable both de jure and de facto.
The Russian Defense Ministry has commented on claims of a Russian military helicopter allegedly being downed by militants in Syria.
According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to hold a telephone conversation on his birthday with his US counterpart Donald Trump.
The Indian Air Force has been operating at its lowest combat strength in more than a decade. It is down to 33 squadrons as against a mandated 42 squadrons needed for a simultaneous and collusive two-front war scenario with Pakistan and China.
The director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency has said that the countries with large reserves of oil and gas, are taking more and more steps to increase investments in renewable energy and the share of such energy sources in their electricity mix.
Despite several eastern European states' concerns that Russian military might stay in Belarus after the joint Zapad-2017 war games end, the Russian defense minister has officially announced that troops have returned to their home bases in Russia.
A PACE source told Sputnik that the organization was planning to hold a discussion on the situation in Catalonia next week.
As RT and Sputnik have come under intense scrutiny in the United States with the US Department of Justice asking a RT contractor in the United States to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and the FBI investigating Sputnik, the Kremlin has commented on the issue.
The Russian energy minister told the Rossiya 24 television channel that Russia's and Saudi Arabia's positions on the oil output cut deal were similar, adding that the deal future should be discussed closer to its completion.
Japanese YouTuber Riku decided to fill a giant balloon with the help of a gargantuan 450-horsepower fan. However, withstanding such a strong air stream turned out to be quite the challenge…
The director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency believes that the trajectory of decarbonization in the US will continue, despite the official withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Press TV, referencing a UK charity, have reported that the majority of the 145,000 Rohingya children who have fled to Bangladesh to escape the violent military crackdown by the Myanmar authorities are suffering from severe malnutrition.
Abuse and threats of violence against the Swedish Migration Board staff has radically increased, in lockstep with the number of rejections. Among other things, female employees report being stalked and threatened with rape. The Migration Board itself explains the applicants' violent behavior with "frustration."
A month after the Syrian army broke the three-year siege of the city of Deir ez-Zor, government forces are reportedly conducting an operation in the Deir ez-Zor province to liberate one of the largest Daesh terrorist group strongholds.
This IAF claim comes in response to Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's statement that Islamabad can use nuclear weapons to thwart any Indian attempt to enter Pakistani territory.