Новости за 31.12.2017

Beginning Monday transgender people will be able to enlist in the US military for the first time in the history of the organization.

Iceland boasts the world’s first penis museum, and now the English seaside city of Brighton will soon host a museum dedicated to that most culturally iconic of body parts: the vagina.

Deutsche Welle political contributor Bernd Riegert says Warsaw is putting the EU at risk of collapse, and that other members may be forced to kick the country out of the bloc.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Protests and criticism, not involving violence, are the constitutional rights of the Iranians, the country's President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has received recommendations to conduct searches in the cells of the defendants and to refrain from direct broadcasting of sentencing judgments following the internal investigation of the suicide of Bosnian Croat wartime commander Gen. Slobodan Praljak.

2018 could see a breakthrough in lunar exploration: China is planning a mission that, if successful, will see a space landing on the far side of the moon for the first time.

During the holiday season, many people enjoy returning to music from the holiday films and cartoons of their childhood. Americans have holiday classics featuring Charlie Brown, Frosty and the Muppets. But what about Russians? What are the Russian equivalents to these nostalgia-inducing works of art? Sputnik did a bit of digging to find out.

On Thursday, thousands of Iranians across the country took to the streets to protest against unemployment, poverty, and the rising cost of living, as well as policies of President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

The German government is spending hundreds of billions of euros on a scheme to employ refugees in the Middle East, in jobs including sorting trash and cleaning the streets. Berlin hopes that the work in countries including Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey will dissuade migrants from attempting to travel to Europe.

Festive illumination adds some magic to everyday life in Moscow on New Year’s Eve. Guests and residents of the Russian capital can visit a 'Starry Sky' tunnel on the one of the streets, walk under glowing arches and even find themselves inside a giant Christmas tree ball.

An American scientist came up with a bold new theory that may explain why, despite numerous reported UFO sightings, aliens are apparently reluctant to meet humanity face to face.

Douglas County police officers have responded to a call of a domestic disturbance in Littletown, a suburb of Denver, early morning on Sunday.

It seems that the British Dormant Assets Commission's previous plans to allocate hefty sums of unclaimed cash for charity purposes may finally come to a standstill.

As New Year 2018 descends upon the world, cities all across the globe stand ready to greet it in their full glory.

An Australian Air Force base in Darwin, northern Australia was put on high alert this month amid drills by Russian strategic bombers in international waters nearby, the Australian military has confirmed.

A host of cryptocurrencies are vying with the more-established Bitcoin for the interest of investors looking for risk and the potential make a quick buck.

With the clock already ticking down to the beginning of the main football event of next year, this video is almost certain to help bring more people to the stadiums.

The year 2017 has witnessed numerous brutal conflicts, devastating natural disasters and a surge of nationalism. On the eve of 2018, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is urging the world to unite in order to reverse the daunting course of events.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that toughens the punishment for "telephone terrorism" to 10 years of imprisonment, according to a document published on the Russian official Internet portal of legal information on Sunday.

If this information is ultimately verified, the repercussions will most likely make what is already a tense situation on the Korean Peninsula even more volatile.

Sputnik presents a baker's dozen batch of sidesplitting headlines.

Railway traffic was halted at Berlin's Zoo train station on Sunday due to a large volume of smoke.

The Federal Security Service detained an individual suspected of organizing and conducting a bombing in Russia's second largest city on Saturday.

Sunday's New Year address to the nation will be German Chancellor Angela Merkel's 13th - but her first without a government. Amid unprecedented political deadlock in Germany, the country's political commentators are wondering how much longer the Chancellor can hold onto power.