Fans have called for a footballer to be sacked after he was sent off for assaulting a teammate during a match in Turkey, with the former manager of the national team who is his boss pledging to "do what is necessary". Read Full Article ...

As Afghanistan sinks into chaos with the Taliban taking control following the US withdrawal, Boom Bust investigates whether there will be any impact on the global economy. Read Full Article at RT.com

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that the hastened pullout of US forces exacerbated the situation in Afghanistan and should serve as a lesson that attempts to impose “foreign models” on other countries end badly. Read Full ...

The head of popular Russian budget airline Pobeda has revealed that it has canceled its contract for the troubled Boeing 737 MAX plane, a month after it was rumored that the company had pulled out of an agreement to buy twenty. Read Ful...

Afghanistan’s national currency, the afghani, continued to plummet on Tuesday as Taliban fighters took control over the capital city of Kabul. The head of the country’s central bank, Ajmal Ahmady, has fled the country. Read Full Art...

Human remains were reportedly found in the landing gear of a US military plane after it departed Kabul airport, with harrowing unverified footage purporting to show a person trapped on the plane’s exterior as it took off. Read Full Ar...

New Delhi’s envoy to Afghanistan and his staff will be evacuated from the country “immediately,” the Indian External Affairs Ministry said, noting they would return home after the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital. Read F...

President Joe Biden will use $500 million from a federal emergency fund to help resettle thousands of Afghan refugees, the White House said, after the country’s capital was overrun by Taliban fighters, prompting hasty evacuations. Rea...

The US federal government declared an unprecedented water shortage in Lake Mead, the country’s biggest reservoir, and the lower Colorado River Basin, triggering rationing among users downstream amid an historically bad drought. Read F...

Beijing’s state-run Global Times newspaper has warned Taiwan that the US “abandonment” of Afghan allies should be a lesson, as the disputed island would be left to fend for itself and “collapse in hours” in a war with China. R...

Amazon founder turned billionaire space enthusiast Jeff Bezos is suing NASA, charging the US space agency wrongly evaluated its proposal for the Project Artemis Moon lander, unfairly awarding the contract to competitor SpaceX. Read Full...

Pfizer has submitted initial data to the FDA as it seeks approval for vaccine booster shots for all adults, saying its trial showed third doses were more effective against Covid-19 and its more contagious Delta variant. Read Full Articl...

Officials charged with evacuating US troops, diplomats, civilians and local allies from Afghanistan have insisted that the process is going well, despite harrowing images circulating of crowded planes and desperate Afghans. Read Full Ar...

Rodney Scott has retired as US Border Patrol chief, but not before reportedly warning his agents that unprecedented numbers of suspected terrorists are crossing into the country, creating a “national security crisis.” Read Full Arti...

Overcrowding on the runway at Kabul airport has forced a German military plane to divert and refuel without evacuating anyone on the ground. Meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel bemoaned the lack of “success” in Afghanistan. Read Ful...

Large numbers of Afghan people have gathered outside Kabul airport, seeking to flee the country as the Taliban takes control. The group's fighters have reached the airport's gates and were seen firing guns to contain the crowd. Read Ful...

President Biden’s top security aide tore into Afghan security forces for failing to stop the Taliban from recapturing their country, saying they lacked the will to fight, despite being amply trained and equipped by Washington. Read Fu...

US President Joe Biden has blamed the ousted Afghan government for not fighting the Taliban and defended the hasty withdrawal of troops and diplomats after briefly interrupting his vacation to address the situation in Afghanistan. Read ...

Hundreds of Afghan military personnel ended up in Uzbekistan over the weekend, after they fled the Taliban offensive, the Uzbek authorities said on Monday, adding that they had to “forcibly” land dozens of rogue aircraft. Read Full ...

Google is allowing users to control their Android devices using facial expressions, beefing up an accessibility feature to allow them to operate their smartphones via raised eyebrows, open mouths, and other facial gestures. Read Full Ar...

The government of Israel has called for international help as the country faces a major wildfire outside Jerusalem. The out-of-control blaze has already devastated swaths of woods and farmland, threatening several villages. Read Full Ar...

Russian diplomats in Kabul feel safe and are continuing to work in the wake of the capital’s takeover by the Taliban, Moscow’s envoy to Afghanistan told RT, adding that the US had been “tilting at windmills” for 20 years. Read F...

Americans stranded in Afghanistan amid the Taliban takeover of the country have turned to seeking help outside the Biden administration, as at least one Republican senator has gotten messages from stranded citizens needing rescue. Read ...

Multiple Wikipedia pages, including those of prominent politicians, have temporarily had the usual informational text replaced with a nasty surprise: a full-screen Nazi swastika over a lurid red background. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Olympic javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk may have only won silver in Tokyo but the Pole has proved that she has a heart of gold after announcing that she will auction her medal to help fund a toddler's heart surgery. Read Full Article a...

CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward was ridiculed on social media for reporting that members of the Taliban who were shouting “death to America!” behind her in Kabul seemed to be “friendly” nonetheless. Read Full...

Russia's joint all-time top scorer, Artem Dzyuba, has been ousted from the first national squad announced by new boss Valeri Karpin – a day after Zenit dropped their captain amid rumors he could move to Turkish side Fenerbahce. Read F...

High-quality satellite images have captured the ongoing Kabul airport debacle, showing droves of Afghans on the runway, attempting to leave aboard Western evacuation flights after the country fell to the Taliban. Read Full Article at RT...

The hastily evacuated US Embassy in Kabul is unlikely to stay vacant for long, retired US Army colonel and diplomat Ann Wright told RT, saying that Washington accepting the Taliban takeover would benefit the Afghan people. Read Full Art...

With the Taliban victorious and the US departure from Afghanistan resembling a panicked rout, talk in Washington has now turned to who’s responsible for the calamity unfolding in Kabul. Unsurprisingly, nobody’s taking the blame. Rea...

British Olympic silver medalist CJ Ujah has maintained his innocence as he faces a lengthy ban after two banned substances were found in his system following events in Tokyo, with the sprinter set to blame a 'labelling error'. Read Full...

Spanish officials have confirmed that around 1,000 people have been evacuated from the rural Navalacruz area after blazing wildfires, fueled by strong winds and high heat, destroyed at least 12,000 hectares of land at the weekend. Read ...

Describing scenes from the Kabul airport as “extraordinary and troubling,” the Pentagon spokesman on Monday said US Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, does not intend to resign over the handling of the pullout from Afghanistan. Read F...

The Chinese government has announced that its unilaterally imposed moratorium on summer fishing has ended, triggering thousands of fishing vessels to set a course for the contested waters. Read Full Article at RT.com

Internet pundits have expressed great amusement after discovering a 30-year-old article in which just-deposed Ashraf Ghani was anticipating the rapid downfall of the Afghan government following the Soviet military’s exit in 1989. Read...

A Russian conman has been sentenced to five years in prison on fraud charges after convincing a 24-year-old woman to send him almost a million rubles ($13,600) in return for a future marriage and a lucrative career in pornography. Read ...

Iran has registered a new national high for daily Covid-19 fatalities, just a day after reporting a previous record number of people had succumbed to the virus as the country struggles to battle a fifth wave of infections. Read Full Art...

Joe Biden vowed an orderly withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and expressed faith in government forces. Barely two months on, the Taliban have overrun the country and ousted its president. How did things deteriorate so fast? Read ...

UFC queen Yana Kunitskaya has announced that she is expecting a child with her partner, former light heavyweight title challenger Thiago Santos, just a month after her most recent performance in the Octagon. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The US auto safety regulator has launched a major inquiry involving some 765,000 Tesla cars over the ‘Autopilot’ driver assistance system after a series of crashes into emergency vehicles. Read Full Article at RT.com

Troubling footage has emerged of Man City fans reacting angrily to their team's opening Premier League defeat, with a mob surging towards stewards and others tearing down a flag in incidents that a Spurs fan group has condemned. Read Fu...

The US was accused of valuing the lives of its military dogs more than those of Afghan civilians, after soldiers were seen evacuating their animals while those desperate to escape the Taliban clung on to departing planes. Read Full Arti...

US troops will reportedly no longer drink snake blood as part of their annual jungle survival training in Thailand, according to animal rights activists PETA. The controversial practice had been a staple of the decades-old course. Read ...

The US Department of Commerce has initiated a probe to check whether Russia is operating as a non-market economy over claims the country subsidizes goods entering the US. Read Full Article at RT.com

Austria has called on countries around Afghanistan to establish “deportation centers” to handle immigrants attempting to flee the Taliban, as the country’s government maintains its hardline immigration stance. Read Full Article at...

US officials say seven people have died at Kabul airport, including some who fell from a departing American transport plane. Meanwhile, flights out of the Afghan capital have been interrupted by crowds on the runway. Read Full Article a...

The Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority has told airlines to avoid its airspace as it relinquished control to military use. The Taliban's takeover of Kabul has triggered a mass exodus, with many desperate to flee the militants. Read Fu...

Russia has no plans to remove the Taliban’s status as a banned terrorist organization, despite the fact that the movement is now de-facto ruling a country, Moscow’s special presidential representative for Afghanistan has said. Read ...

Newly elected president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has claimed that the US “defeat” and its withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan may represent a chance for war-torn Afghanistan to revive itself and find peace. Read Full Article at RT....

The defiant president of Barcelona has admitted that the scale of their debts is "very worrying" , insisted that Lionel Messi's exit was the "right decision" and blamed his predecessor over their legal wrangle with Neymar. Read Full Art...

As Taliban fighters in Kabul announce talks to form a new government, one of Russia’s top diplomats has said that Moscow will be watching the situation closely to determine whether any new leadership can be deemed legitimate. Read Ful...

A politician from India’s ruling party has questioned why thousands of people are fleeing Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover amid the imminent imposition of Sharia law, which Indian patriots deeply despise. Read Full Article at RT...

20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer, 40, faces fears about the future of his career after admitting he has only a "glimmer of hope" to return to his best following the surgery that he says is required to his knee. Read Full Article ...

The attempt by the US embassy in Kabul to hire a PR specialist was brushed aside as a laughable gaffe by many, but actress-turned-activist Rose McGowan took it as a reminder to be angry about American imperialism. Read Full Article at R...

India’s economy is showing strong signs of recovery as several states begin to ease restrictions and cancel lockdowns imposed in response to the brutal second wave of coronavirus infections. Read Full Article at RT.com

Sri Lanka’s president has announced that the country’s health minister, Pavithra Wanniarachchi, has been sacked for pushing Covid misinformation and promoting false treatments amid surging case numbers. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The UK Ministry of Defence disclosed the existence of its shadowy hacker outfit in a job ad that sought an “extraordinary talented electronics engineer” to deliver “prototype solutions” to a “unique and specialised military un...

Press TV, Iran’s state-owned international news network, compared videos of Afghans clinging to and falling from US planes departing Kabul on Monday to Americans who fell from the World Trade Center on 9/11. Read Full Article at RT.co...

A plane believed to be carrying fleeing Afghan military personnel was shot down by Uzbekistan's air-defense system after it crossed into the neighboring nation's airspace, officials in the capital, Tashkent, revealed on Monday. Read Ful...

The Taliban has replaced Afghan soldiers guarding the Russian Embassy in Kabul, and its leadership has assured officials that diplomats can continue their work safely, Moscow’s ambassador to Afghanistan explained on Monday. Read Full ...

The suspension of flights leaving Kabul has left countless civilians at the mercy of the Taliban. But even if flights resume, Afghans fleeing the country will still need to test negative for Covid, according to a baffling report. Read F...

A plane bearing the insignia of the Afghan Air Force has crashed in the neighboring nation of Uzbekistan as the country's top military and political leaders fled the advance of the Taliban, in the wake of the American withdrawal. Read F...

Greek firefighters have been battling a large wildfire near the port town of Lavrio outside Athens on Monday, with the local authorities suspecting that this latest disaster could’ve been caused by arsonists. Read Full Article at RT.c...

The Turkish authorities have reported that the death toll from the flash floods that have ravaged the country since last week has reached 70, and that 47 people are so far unaccounted for. Read Full Article at RT.com

Serbia has announced that it will begin rolling out a Covid booster shot scheme to all members of its population this week, as long as it has been six months post their second dose, while high-risk people are the main priority. Read Ful...

Australian Rugby World Cup winner Toutai Kefu is understood to have suffered 'very serious wounds' after he was stabbed in the stomach during a home invasion, during which his wife and two children were also injured. Read Full Article a...

Players and coaches have admitted they feared the worst when a player in France's top flight collapsed just minutes into a match in front of 50,000 people in a painfully similar incident to Christian Eriksen's ordeal at Euro 2020. Read ...

The Taliban has started rounding up weapons belonging to civilians and those in the security profession, as the militant group firms up its control over the Afghan capital and thousands flee. Read Full Article at RT.com

New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Monday that seven people had died of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. It is the highest number of related deaths in the region since the pandemic started. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Malaysia’s prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, resigned on Monday, alongside his entire cabinet, as allies withdrew their support for his administration amid economic turmoil and a deadly wave of Covid. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Western-backed former Afghan leader, Ashraf Ghani, departed his country with so much money that it couldn’t all fit on his helicopter, and he was forced to leave some cash at the airport, the Russian Embassy in Kabul has said. Rea...

A photograph showing US President Joe Biden in a national security meeting on Sunday left many confused, after social media users noticed that the president’s clocks incorrectly showed London and Moscow to be three hours apart. Read F...

Daniil Medvedev's opponent hailed his display as "flawless" after the world number two moved closer to ousting Novak Djokovic at the top of the rankings by ending a 21-year Russian wait for glory at a tournament in Canada. Read Full Art...

The rally demonstrated by bitcoin in recent weeks has pushed the value of the entire cryptocurrency market above $2 trillion for the first time since mid-May. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Vancouver Whitecaps say that three of their academy players have suffered injuries with one being hospitalized after an alleged racially-motivated attack at an outdoor gathering on Saturday. Read Full Article at RT.com

The fall of Kabul to the Taliban was not part of a grand political strategy, but a result of the failure of America’s intervention in Afghanistan, a top Russian official has announced, as Moscow says US supremacy is fading away. Read ...

Israel has already administered a third vaccine dose to almost a million people, its health ministry has said, amid calls by the World Health Organization to delay such booster shots until poorer countries get their first jabs. Read Ful...

Several people have been killed after attempting to hold on to a plane ferrying evacuees out of Afghanistan’s capital, reports say. It comes amid chaotic scenes of Afghans trying to escape Taliban-controlled Kabul. Read Full Article a...

The premier for Australia’s Victoria has announced that the state’s capital city, Melbourne, will be subject to an extended lockdown alongside a night-time curfew and tougher new measures as Covid cases show no signs of abating. Rea...

Police in the Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog have opened an investigation after its mayor, Konstantin Pavlov, was found dead at home from a gunshot wound to the chest, amid a crackdown on the country’s largest opposition party. Read Ful...

The European Union has said it is working to evacuate Afghan staff and their families from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and find suitable places to relocate them amid concerns for their safety under the new regime. Read Full Article a...

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace was visibly distraught and appeared to choke back tears as he was explaining that his government will likely not be able to evacuate everyone it wants to from Taliban-seized Kabul. Read Full Article...

Iran’s crude oil production fell to the lowest in 40 years, according to an updated analysis by the US Energy Information Administration. Read Full Article at RT.com

Women who transition to men can compete without restriction and men becoming women will be required to take hormone level tests, according to new figure skating rules which have drawn a mixed reaction. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said London is yet to decide on whether to recognise Taliban militants as legitimate rulers of Afghanistan, while the government is focused on evacuations and is braced for a rise in migration.  Read Fu...

Global crude prices are down over 1% on Monday, declining for a third consecutive day, as fresh Covid-19 outbreaks diminish prospects for global demand. Read Full Article at RT.com

At least three people have been killed at Kabul’s airport as civilians attempt to escape from Taliban rule, according to reports. US forces guarding the air hub had allegedly fired their weapons to scatter crowds on the tarmac. Read F...

The official Twitter handle of Afghanistan’s embassy in India has blasted the country’s ex-President Ashraf Ghani for ‘effing’ everything up and fleeing the country. The account was reportedly hacked. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The US embassy in Afghanistan, which has been subject to a frantic evacuation effort that saw military helicopters flying staffers to safety, has been evacuated to Kabul airport, the State Department has reported. Read Full Article at R...

A White House tweet showing President Joe Biden appearing to be on top of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan may also have inadvertently revealed the faces and locations of intelligence agents. Read Full Article...

Political finger-pointing over the Taliban’s crushing blitzkrieg in Afghanistan amid the US withdrawal has escalated, with ex-secretary of state Mike Pompeo blasting President Joe Biden for blaming his predecessor for the debacle. Rea...

The US military will send another 1,000 servicemen to Afghanistan in a bid to take over Kabul international airport, which has been overwhelmed by hordes of Afghans fleeing the imminent takeover of the country by the Taliban. Read Full ...

Donald Trump excoriated US President Joe Biden for allowing one of America’s worst defeats ever as Taliban fighters recaptured Afghanistan, while the current commander-in-chief was conspicuously silent on the debacle. Read Full Articl...

At least 1,297 people have been killed in the devastating Haiti quake that struck the Caribbean nation’s southern peninsula on Saturday, leaving a trail of destruction and hundreds of injured residents in its wake. Read Full Article a...

The downfall of the Afghan government and rapid advancement of the Taliban who entered the country’s capital taking over key locations, has sent thousands fleeing in a desperate bid to escape before the takeover is complete. Read Full...

As foreigners flocked to get out of Afghanistan in recent days, one cheerful British student flew into the war-torn country, to “goof off and soak in the sun.” With the Taliban closing in, timing was not his strong suit. Read Full A...

With Taliban militants roaming Kabul’s presidential palace with impunity, the group has declared victory in its two-decade fight against the US and Afghanistan’s Western-backed government. Read Full Article at RT.com

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has set the stage for an early national election on September 20, giving his Liberal Party a chance to seize control of Parliament and prevent conservatives from blocking its legislative agenda. Read Full Arti...

Online critics blasted Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for bringing Covid-19 fearmongering to new heights, after he warned that even fully vaccinated senior citizens are in “mortal danger” if they don’t get a booster jab. R...

Multiple explosions have been reported in Kabul’s key locations, including the presidential palace and US embassy. President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country, has broken his silence, stating that he’d quit to prevent bloodshed. Re...