One sweet rescue kitty, which has been a source of delight not only for the country’s prime minister and her family, but also for thousands of other people across the world, managed to bring a whole nation together.
Germany has joined the ranks of countries that now officially recognize a so-called “third sex.”
A top official from PricewaterhouseCoopers has shared his opinion with Sputnik on Donald Trump's participation in the APEC summit that is being held in Vietnam.
NASA has retracted a scientific report about the deadly damage long spaceflights may pose to an astronaut’s health, the Retraction Watch weblog has reported.
Earlier this year, the Department of Defense estimated the total cost of the post-9/11 military operations at $1.5 trillion. The Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University has carried out its own study positing that not all the costs had been calculated by the department.
Donald Trump has been reconsidering many decisions by his predecessor Barack Obama, including with regard to the relations with Cuba, one of the major achievements by the former administration.
Finland's Greens have landed in hot water after a party member insulted country dwellers with an anti-rural Facebook post, claiming that practicing incest may be the only reason to move to rural areas. The ensuing scandal may result in a serious backlash for the Greens, which recently polled as the Nordic country's second-largest party.
A high-profile Australian politician has been drawn into the dual citizenship furore just days after new rules were announced to make all of the country's MPs and senators register their status to avoid an embarrassing repeat, where six political figures have already been forced out of office.
UK scientists have begun testing a radically new approach to schizophrenia treatment. In the course of the next two years, 30 patients will get infusions of the so-called monoclonal antibody drug each month, which will target their immune systems. Radio Sputnik discussed this new method with professor Olive Howes.
The Syrian government forces have been conducting a massive operation in the Deir ez-Zor province aiming to completely wipe Daesh terrorists out as over 90 percent of the war-torn state's territory has already been liberated.
Exploration works prior to the construction of an international maritime power cable have unintentionally located dozens of shipwrecks from various eras resting at the bottom of Norway's second-longest fjord.
The Russian foreign minister has commented on the ongoing probe into Moscow's alleged meddling in the US presidential election.
A top Croatian businessman has been arrested in London and is facing extradition back to Zagreb. Who is Ivica Todoric and why is he such a wanted man in Croatia?
President of the Russian Olympic Committee Aleksandr Zhukov has commented on the situation around the doping probe of Russian athletes.
Macedonia is prepared for a “tough Russian response” to its bid to join NATO, but remains all set to mend fences with Moscow and sell it as many tomatoes and cabbages as possible, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said in televised remarks.
The Kremlin's spokesman has commented on Russia's ties with Ukraine, as well as the possibility of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the APEC summit.
The Grim Reaper has become a new resident on the beaches of New Zealand trying to lurk swimmers to drown in the nation's waters. “If you do something foolish in the water, I’ll be there,” the Death personified warns in its own the Instagram account which has already gained more than 82k followers.
As relations between Washington and Tehran continue to remain tense US President Donald Trump has extended the national emergency with Iran that has been in place since1979. Radio Sputnik discussed with Seyed Ali Alavi, a political analyst and specialist in Middle East politics, the current state and prospects of US-Iran relations.
Pakistan’s top security expert told Sputnik that Niger’s government was not doing the right thing by asking the US to conduct drone attacks on militants. He said it was not justified on the part of the US military to carry out drone attacks as per their whims, as such deadly attacks cause huge civilian casualties.
The US president has called on Russia and China to downgrade diplomatic relations and cut economic ties with North Korea.
Britain's international development secretary Priti Patel looks to be facing the sack from Theresa May's cabinet after it emerged she failed to disclose information about two further meetings with Israeli officials.
This robot is used for testing the eddy current of steam generator tubes inside nuclear power plants. This task has been traditionally carried out manually and was considered hazardous due to the highly-radioactive atmosphere.
Deir ez-Zor has been recently liberated by the Syrian forces, but the area is still in ruins after the three-year-long siege by Daesh. Sputnik has spoken with a Syrian brigadier general on the operation to free the city.
Two hybrid warfare-themed emergency preparedness exercises are being held simultaneously in swaths of Finland imitating a sharp international situation, where the risk of war is imminent.
The move comes amid the pressure on US tech giants in the wake of the probe into the alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election.