The felling, transporting and displaying of evergreen trees has been a Winter holiday tradition in the northern hemisphere for centuries, and nowhere is this Christmas convulsion as popular as in the United States, where Americans will drop over $1 billion this year to brighten their homes with the sweet scent of pine boughs.
Southern California’s 20-day Thomas Fire has now scorched an estimated 427 square miles, making it the largest wildfire in the state’s history.
It appears that large territories of southern Argentina comprised a de facto British colony that managed to remain hidden from the prying eyes for nearly a century.
Propped up with high-tech US weapons, Saudi Arabia’s ongoing attacks on Yemen are not producing the results that Riyadh intended, as a tenacious Houthi armed resistance refuses to submit and international anger at what the UN is calling the world’s worst humanitarian crisis mounts.
A bizarre altercation took place in London where an angry driver launched into a rant glorifying the long-dead leader of Nazi Germany.
Bernd Duschner, chairman of Friendship With Valievo, an association which collects donations for humanitarian relief parcels for Syria, told Sputnik that the sanctions imposed by Western countries against the Syrian government have caused more damage and suffering than the war itself.
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Venezuelan authorities have started to release participants detained during the mass unrest of 2014 and 2017, who have been described by the country’s opposition as political prisoners, local has media reported.
NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - Russia and India have approved the creation of a mechanism that will eliminate existing limits and barriers in bilateral trade, Russian Deputy Economic Development Minister Alexey Gruzdev told reporters on Sunday.
NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - Russia and India have approved the creation of a mechanism that will eliminate existing limits and barriers in bilateral trade, Russian Deputy Economic Development Minister Alexey Gruzdev told reporters on Sunday.
Last month, the International Criminal Court requested permission to investigate alleged war crimes committed during the conflict in Afghanistan by US military personnel and the CIA. Speaking to Sputnik, professor of law Mohammad Farhad Azimi outlined what he said was the main reason Afghan authorities and the ICC can't bring US forces to account.
US President Donald Trump has apparently enacted yet another change in the fabric of the American state – this time it’s the design of the presidential challenge coin.
The Bank of Israel and Ministry of Finance have been working on a state-backed digital currency, which may be introduced starting in 2019, local media reports.
The Bank of Israel and Ministry of Finance have been working on a state-backed digital currency, which may be introduced starting in 2019, local media report.
It turns out that Chinese craftsmen are incredibly adept at making replicas of legendary buildings and ruins, and erecting fantastic structures made of ice and other, less orthodox materials.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment of the United Arab Emirates has introduced a ban on imports of non-heat-treated poultry from Saudi Arabia, local media has reported.
BAGHDAD (Sputnik) - Iraq is inviting companies to submit bids to take part in the construction of a new branch of an oil pipeline from the province of Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, the Iraqi Oil Ministry said on Sunday in a statement.
A Syrian refugee who now works as a barber in Brazil uses a rather unorthodox tool to ply his trade - an axe.
A team led by former NSA contractor-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden has developed a new Android app designed to transform a smartphone into a home surveillance system and anti-spy tool. Sputnik discussed the significance of the app with Athina Karatzogianni, associate professor of media, communication & sociology at the University of Leicester.
Ankara and Moscow are discussing the evacuation of some 500 civilians from the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.
A suspicious package has been tracked outside the home of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in California.
The recently adopted tax reform package includes a provision which significantly lowers excise taxes for US craft brewers and small-time distilleries, allowing these companies to increase production, step-up hiring, and bring down the price of alcohol.
Three months ago, Iraqi Kurdistan defiantly held a referendum for independence, damaging relations between the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) and Iraq, and other neighboring countries who opposed the move, as they feared it could stoke aspirations for Kurdish independence domestically.
While the US soldiers receive turkeys, gifts, and the new Star Wars movie, troops from the UK are “generously” given £1 each to fund their Christmas festivities.
German financial regulators say they have no plans to introduce a European Central Bank (ECB)-backed cryptocurrency in the near-term, citing their concern with a lack of understanding of digital currency market mechanisms, and associated risks and costs.
It seems that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bellicose rhetoric shows no signs of abating after a UN General Assembly vote rejected Washington's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.