Despite stronger-than expected Q3 economic growth, some officials argue the UK is not ready for the first Bank of England rate hike in over a decade due to underlying structural weaknesses, and Brexit risks.
Only a few days before US President Donald Trump’s November visit to South Korea, Vice-President Mike Pence warned US troops to “be ready” as the Pentagon moves quickly to upgrade its aging B-52 nuclear-equipped bombers.
Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is poised to be re-appointed as the central bank’s chief after his current term expires in April, as PM Shinzo Abe – after winning the election in a landslide – plans a very cautious economic policy rebalancing, and seeks to avoid personnel risks.
As self-driving cars become a reality and workplace robots become a reality, the capability of artificial intelligence poses moral questions for society; "who is responsible for a robot's mistake?" asks Argentine robotics expert Gonzalo Zabala.
After the Russia doping scandal hit the headlines in 2015, many of the country's athletes were banned from competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Russia faced a blanket ban at the athletics World Championship in London.
Authorities in the Icelandic town of Isafjorour have come up with a 3D 'floating' pedestrian crossing to reduce the number of accidents at intersections.
Amid ever-growing tensions in the Korean peninsula, top defense officials from the United States and South Korea have held talks on settling the crisis over the DPRK's nuclear program.
For the first time, the total number of billionaires in Asia has exceeded that of the US; according to a new report, three quarters of the world's new billionaires hail from China and India.
The revelation that Hillary Clinton and the DNC helped fund the controversial dossier making claims of Trump-Russia collusion after the 2016 election has deflated the Democratic Party's effort to smear the president. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, Earl Rasmussen, director of the NGO Eurasia Center, recalled that the report reads like a bad spy novel.
As Halloween approaches, we remember one of the scariest hacks in history; in the days before the internet, evening television viewers in Chicago were shocked when their programs were interrupted by a strange, masked man; his identity has never been established.
As Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered its worst defeat in September's parliamentary elections since the World War II, the party's leader Martin Schulz made a decision to go into opposition and focus on internal-party reforms.
This week, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid a working visit to Moscow and met with President Putin. Speaking to Sputnik, Horst Teltschik, Chancellor Helmut Khol's former security advisor, outlined the significance of the meeting, and the broader trajectory of German foreign policy as he would like to see it.
The US has slapped anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese aluminum products ahead pf President Trump’s visit to Beijing early next month, signaling the US administration’s serious plans to refurbish bilateral trade by making it more fair, transparent, and market-driven.
While the Harvey Weinstein affair appears to have rocked the US entertainment industry, in fact the concept of the "casting couch" predates Hollywood, award-winning film actor Robert Davi tells Radio Sputnik.
Spanish loyalists gathered in the center of the capital of Catalonia, to protest against the decision of regional leaders to sever ties with Madrid; they also voiced their support for Spain's oldest law enforcement agency, the Guardia Civil.
Some 224 people died when a Russian Airbus A321 crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on October 31, 2015, in what is considered to be the largest aviation disaster in Russian history.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has warned that the situation on the border between Russia and NATO countries has worsened, and may escalate. Speaking to Sputnik, security analyst Igor Nikolaychuk suggested that NATO's efforts on Russia's western frontiers are part of the alliance's effort to justify its existence.
Canadian scientist Robert Weryk has spotted something 'really weird' within the orbit of Mercury while examining the images of near-Earth objects. "It is not an alien," he reassured. But what is it?
In 2012, a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia went into effect. Spanish economist Mario Valencia told Sputnik Mundo that the deal has brought Colombia nothing except a foreign trade deficit, low exports and a complicated situation in the country's labor market.
Two blasts have rocked the Somalian capital of Mogadishu on Sunday, leaving several people injured, local police said as cited by Reuters. Police are clarifying whether the incidents were a coordinated attack.
The 44th US President is planning to work for the US once again, this time serving on jury duty in Chicago, where he used to teach constitutional law before becoming president.
In the follow-up to the recently-announced liberation of the Syrian city of Raqqa from Daesh by the predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Salih Muslim, former co-chairman of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), talked with Sputnik Kurdistan about the future political order in Syria and their relationship with the US.
After the Spanish prime minister sacked the Catalan leadership on Friday amid the declaration of independence by the autonomous region, the former regional leader has issued a statement clarifying his position on the situation.
Amid the grave constitutional crisis in Spain triggered by Catalonia's declaration of independence, Europe's powers have criticized Barcelona and expressed their support for Madrid.
Hadiya, originally Akhila Ashokan, is an Indian woman who was born Hindu but converted to Islam to marry her lover. She was placed under house arrest after she was forcibly separated from her husband following the Kerala High Court’s ruling that their marriage was a case of ‘love jihad’ (religious conversions in the name of marriage).