COP23, which concluded earlier on Friday in the German city of Bonn, became the first UN Climate Change Conference to be officially certified for eco-friendly performance under the EU Eco Management and Audit System (EMAS), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) said in a press release.
Japan on Friday began the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis said Friday that he believes relations between Spain and Russia will not deteriorate over the media reports of Russia's alleged interference in the crisis in Catalonia and dissemination of biased accounts of events.
The South Korean foreign intelligence service has reported that North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program has hit a snag, as the communist country has run into difficulty developing reliable atmospheric re-entry technology that would allow their missile to return from Earth’s orbit.
Roy Moore, a Republican politician campaigning to attain the vacant Alabama Senate seat left behind by Jeff Sessions, has found himself in hot water since the Washington Post published an expose on his alleged past habit of groping teenage girls.
The latest version of the US’ fiscal year 2018 appropriations bill designates more funding to a space-based ballistic missile defense (BMD) capability, according to a new report.
After a two-year recession Russia's economic growth is about to reach a 2 percent mark, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission said in a statement.
A massive database containing 1.8 billion internet posts collected from social media, news sites and forums by the US Department of Defense has been publicly exposed, according to the US cybersecurity firm UpGuard.
On Thursday, just a day after a local sheriff threatened disorderly conduct charges against Karen Fonseca over a anti-Trump decal on her truck, officials arrested the Texas resident on an outstanding warrant.
The San Juan submarine was last heard from two days ago; now it has gone missing with 44 crew members on board off the coast of Argentina.
China is likely to get rid of cash soon and become the global leader in digital payments by 2020. Speaking to Sputnik, Guo Tianyong, director of the Center of Banking at the Central University of Finance and Economics, explained how the country's backwardness in banking infrastructure has opened the door to mobile payment systems.
The move is the latest in a series of Trump's decisions outdoing Obama's policies.
The phrase “a dog is a man’s best friend” has taken on a new meaning as a study conducted by scientists at Uppsala University has revealed that dog owners on average live longer than other people.
More than a dozen of US high-ranking officials has cooperated to put a spoke in wheels on Donald Trump's travel ban.
The move comes just days after RT America has been forced to register as a foreign agent in the US after the Justice Department's demand.
A man who lost his hand and part of his arm in an electrical accident has had the sense of touch restored thanks to pioneering work undertaken by a team of scientists. Now researchers at the University of Utah have told Sputnik they hope to expand their achievements to help other amputees including patients suffering from spinal cord injuries.
The killings of Iranian nuclear scientists have prompted political analysts to assume during an interview with Sputnik that Israel could have been behind the sabotage of Tehran's atomic program. An Israeli academic argues that one cannot blame Tel Aviv for the assassinations. Meanwhile, an alleged Mossad agent has been sentenced to death in Iran.
Former Italian striker Pablo Osvaldo confessed that at some point he started to hate his job, saying that there are a lot of things in life that he loves much more.
Sputnik has spoken with the residents of Zimbabwe's capital amid the political upheaval in the country.
The controversy was basically triggered by speculations that the Indian government was planning to discuss the purchase of additional Rafale jets (apart from those already contracted) during French President Macron’s upcoming visit.
If there are any intelligent extraterrestrials in the universe, they will be getting a message from humans years from now. Head of the organization that has sent a transmission to an exoplanet told Sputnik aliens that are capable of making their way to Earth, know humans exist already.
Living in an era of high technology, amputees and people born with missing limbs can get an advanced device that will make their lives much easier.
The article argues that the Indian fashion industry has made a conscious decision to "Indianise" fashion to please Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his party, and his "Hindu nationalist" ideology.
The neuro-mobile is set to make an appearance at an innovation exhibition in Moscow on December 13. It is expected to be affordable and facilitate the life of handicapped persons primarily.
Israel’s chief of staff has said in an unprecedented interview with a Saudi Arabian newspaper that his country is prepared to work with Riyadh to face off Iran’s expanding regional influence. Sputnik spoke with Middle East political analyst Catherine Shakdam on the prospects of such cooperation.