A global survey has found that autocracies have become increasingly trusted, while confidence in democracies has fallen. One of the reasons given is the alleged poor management of the Covid-19 pandemic in democratic states. Read Full Ar...

Oil prices surged more than $1 on Tuesday, reaching their highest levels since October 2014, amid hostilities in the United Arab Emirates. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tennis Australia says it is looking forward to a “brilliant two weeks” in a statement following the deportation of Novak Djokovic which failed to mention the world number one by name. Read Full Article at RT.com

Canadian special forces have been deployed to Ukraine amid rising tensions with Moscow, according to Canada’s Global News, which reported that a small team was sent to Kiev in order to deter alleged “Russian aggression.” Read Full...

With tensions rising on the Russian border with Ukraine, Moscow has started to remove its diplomats and their families from its embassy in Kiev and consulate in Lvov, the New York Times has claimed, citing anonymous officials. Read Full...

Pedro Martinez and Federico Delbonis were praised for their actions as they raced to help a ball girl who appeared to faint during their first-round match at the Australian Open on Monday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Students at California public schools won’t be asked to recite a chant based on Aztec religious practices, which some parents compared to a prayer to “demotic” pagan gods, who used to get human sacrifices. Read Full Article at RT....

Despite the Biden administration’s best attempts, oil prices are set to continue to climb this year, as many OPEC members are struggling with higher production quotas because of technical issues. Read Full Article at RT.com

Daniil Medvedev made light work of Swiss rival Henri Laaksonen as the Russian cruised into the second round with a straight-sets victory in Melbourne, before saying he welcomes the spotlight as a tournament favorite. Read Full Article a...

Khabib Nurmagomedov, a Russian mixed martial artist and former UFC champion, has founded a new chain of fast food restaurants called M-eat by Khabib, the athlete announced this weekend through a representative. Read Full Article at RT.c...

A Kazakh businessman living in France, described as the country's "opposition leader" by US state-run media, has announced that he has a plan to take over the nation with the help of Western powers. Read Full Article at RT.com

Brad Hazzard, the health minister of Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), said people are undermining pandemic response efforts by registering fake positive Covid test results. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia will never consider discussing the withdrawal of missiles from its Kaliningrad region, a western exclave that borders Poland, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Australia found itself embroiled in yet another controversy this week after returning travelers claimed they were forced to hand over their phones and passwords to border officials at the airport. Read Full Article at RT.com

Amazon is being sued by the family of a delivery driver who was killed last month when one of its Illinois warehouses was destroyed by a tornado, with the family accusing the company of placing profits over people. Read Full Article at ...

The United Kingdom has begun sending light arms to Ukraine, Britain’s top military official said, though he claimed the weapons “pose no threat to Russia” after repeated allegations that Moscow is planning to invade its neighbor. ...

A parole hearing for Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik is set to take place this week, more than 10 years after he killed 77 people and injured hundreds more in Norway’s deadliest attack since World War II. Read Full Article at R...

WhatsApp was ordered by a US government agency to spy on several foreign nationals, even though the agency had no evidence the users had committed a crime or even knew their names. Read Full Article at RT.com

A fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine showed dwindling effectiveness against the Omicron variant, according to a trial conducted in Israel, with one its lead researchers saying the immunization is simply “not good enough.” Read Full ...

NATO considers space increasingly important to its mission and fears potential adversaries might seek to harm its orbital assets, the alliance has announced, adding it reserves the right to declare a space attack an act of war. Read Ful...

US President Joe Biden marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a speech linking the civil rights leader’s efforts to unite Americans to his own party’s voting rights legislation, all but dismissing those against it as racists. Read F...

Some of the US’ largest commercial and cargo airlines have sounded the alarm about the potentially “devastating” effects of 5G service around airports, saying the technology could effectively grind travel and shipping to a halt. R...

If Russia invades Ukraine, the US will move strongly to damage Moscow’s strategic position and employ measures that take aim at the country's economy, a top White House official threatened on Sunday. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Saudi-led coalition has launched an air raid on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, saying it was a response to the earlier attack by “Iran-backed” Houthi “terrorists” on Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Read Full Article at RT...

Ex-Tottenham and Inter Milan star Christian Eriksen is negotiating a possible move to Premier League side Brentford with an eye on making the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, according to reports. Read Full Article at RT.com

Chelsea's Thomas Tuchel cut a modest figure in a live FIFA interview as he earned the spotlight with Edouard Mendy, Jorginho, N'Golo Kante and Pep Guardiola just days after being beaten by the Man City boss in the Premier League. Read F...

German newspaper Handelsblatt has reported that Western leaders have ruled out the possibility of disconnecting Russia from the global banking interchange SWIFT. However, the US government has contradicted the assertion. Read Full Artic...

UK PM Boris Johnson not only knew a garden party held by his staff was a violation of his own government’s Covid-19 rules – he lied to Parliament about it, according to his former aide, Dominic Cummings. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Mohamed Salah did not attend alongside Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski as the football icon missed out on a major award again – and his supporters have called out a confusing piece of judging at the Best FIFA Awards. Read Full Art...

A British military court has found a Royal Navy sailor guilty of stealing and selling specialist diver watches on online auction site eBay. Read Full Article at RT.com

Less than two months after being snubbed for the Ballon d'Or, football superstar Robert Lewandowski has beaten PSG and Argentina hitman Lionel Messi and Liverpool and Egypt hero Mohamed Salah to the FIFA Men's Player Award 2021. Read Fu...

Popular Dutch reality TV show ‘The Voice of Holland’ has been taken off the air after “several people” involved were accused of sexual misconduct and abusing their power. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ukrainian prosecutors have asked a court in Kiev to set bail for former president Petro Poroshenko at $35 million, or send him to jail for two months. He faces accusations of treason, which he insists are politically motivated. Read Ful...

Reports that the CIA is running training programs to prepare Ukrainian forces for unconventional warfare bear an uncanny similarity to a long-exposed Cold War-era project. If history is any judge, it is likely to end the same way. Read ...

Three-time Muay Thai world champ Ekaterina Vandarieva has hit back after a scandal embroiled her loss to 'Supergirl' Jaroonsak Muaythai, sharing footage of herself letting rip on her One Championship foe with a barrage of punches. Read ...

The Facebook page belonging to Russia’s delegation to the security and arms control talks in Vienna was blocked for days without explanation. The diplomats have blasted it as an act of censorship specifically targeting Moscow. Read Fu...

Almost five years after the release of the critically slammed ‘Justice League’ movie, director Joss Whedon sat down with NY Magazine to give his side of the story and detail the troubled shoot, accusing the cast of being rude. Read ...

General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has tested positive for Covid-19 and is working remotely, the Pentagon has announced. One other member of the Joint Chiefs is positive, but the military did not say who. Read F...

A LinkedIn report shows extraordinary growth of 395% in cryptocurrency-related job postings in the United States from 2020 to 2021. Careers in crypto outstripped price action in 2021, it said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Germany is still intent on normalizing relations with Russia, the country’s top diplomat has said before a planned visit to Moscow, insisting that recent bilateral talks can’t be expected to solve every problem at once. Read Full Ar...

The Louvre Museum in Paris has hit out at right-wing presidential candidate Marine Le Pen after she claimed the landmark ‘as her own’ in a campaign video. The museum has asked her to remove the advertisement. Read Full Article at RT...

The Swedish Security Service confirmed on Monday it was leading an investigation into drones seen near the nation's three nuclear power plants, amid concerns the country isn't prepared for the threat of the aerial devices. Read Full Art...

As the US refuses to halt the march of its NATO military bloc, in Eastern Europe, Moscow could leverage its ties with friendly Latin American states to ruffle Washington’s feathers. But would such a course of action be worth it? Read ...

Former Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard has been let off driving charges after vigilante footage appeared to show him with a mobile phone in one hand and a coffee in the other while at the wheel. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

One of the most outspoken figures in tennis has savaged the Australian government over Novak Djokovic's deportation, calling his Covid vaccination row nonsense as part of a rant in which he seemed confused about some of the facts. Read ...

Billionaire would-be Mars colonizer Elon Musk has renewed his call for humanity to live a “multiplanetary” lifestyle, insisting it’s the only way the species will escape a “mass extinction crisis” caused by the sun’s expansi...

One of the remaining mysteries from the Second World War may have been solved after an international team of investigators revealed the name of the person who “very likely” betrayed young Jewish diarist Anne Frank. Read Full Article...

Serbian tennis icon Novak Djokovic has arrived back in his homeland after being ordered to leave Australia. A crowd of fans gathered to greet Djokovic upon his return, following a fraught fortnight Down Under. Read Full Article at RT.co...

US retail giant Amazon said it will continue accepting UK-issued Visa credit cards on its British website, adding it was working with Visa to settle the dispute over fees it collects with every purchase. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Members of the Russian Orthodox Church have come out with 39 new initiatives, including a new prayer service for those who are “possessed with computer passion.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Journalist and essayist Eric Zemmour, who is running in the 2022 French presidential election, was fined €10,000 ($11,400) on Monday for inciting hatred against migrants on TV.  Read Full Article at RT.com

Amnesty International has issued a statement calling on Italy to change its strict anti-Covid-19 policies to prevent possible discrimination against unvaccinated people after a recent government decree. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Emotional Aslan Karatsev earned a five-hour first-round win over the world number 71 at the Australian Open, where last year's semifinalist appeared troubled during one of the most eventful matches the tournament has ever seen. Read Ful...

China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday that the nation produced 359.4 billion integrated circuits (ICs) in 2021, up 33.3% year on year. The growth comes amid the US-China battle for tech supremacy. Read Full Articl...

Police in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk have opened an investigation into a video of a local woman pole-dancing in a city square, in view of a chapel, after the clip went viral online and was noticed by local authorities. Read Full Art...

Football fans have been left baffled by a goal for Brazilian team Jacuipense, which some have humorously touted as a potential Puskas Award contender. Read Full Article at RT.com

Estonia is ready and able to host a contingent of up to 5,000 troops from NATO’s rapid response force if the order to deploy them is given, Tallinn has said, despite Russian concerns over the US-led bloc’s forces near its border. Re...

The spread of influenza across Europe has sparked concerns about the risk of a prolonged ‘twindemic’, as the high Covid transmission rate raises fears about the pressure on already overstretched European health systems. Read Full Ar...

Scottish police have said they will take no action against transgender rights activists who posted a photo of J.K. Rowling’s Edinburgh home on Twitter. Law enforcement said the actions were deemed “not criminal.” Read Full Article...

South Korean presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol has reiterated his promise to make sure the country develops capabilities to carry out a preemptive strike against North Korea if it opts to put its nuclear weapons to use. Read Full Art...

Top footballer Hulk has shown off his lover's baby bump as he prepares to become a father again with the niece of his wife from a previous marriage. Read Full Article at RT.com

UFC star Khamzat Chimaev has baffled MMA fans by posting a photo of himself and former champion Conor McGregor in the guise of Marvel superhero Spider-Man. Read Full Article at RT.com

HiddenLight Productions, founded by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, has unveiled a new sub label, HLP Studios, and announced a series, commissioned by the UK’s Channel 4, set to go behind the scenes of the world’s biggest brands. Read ...

China has canceled plans for the public sale of 2022 Winter Olympics tickets, with only invited groups set to be allowed to watch the action in person at February’s Games in Beijing. Read Full Article at RT.com

The leader of the UK’s Labour Party has refused to apologize over images of him drinking with colleagues amid Covid-19 restrictions after he called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign over a similar scandal. Read Full Article at...

Three people were killed and six wounded in an apparent drone attack on Abu Dhabi on Monday, UAE police have said. Yemen’s Houthi rebels have announced a strike “deep” in Emirati territory. Read Full Article at RT.com

Mainland China’s birth rate dropped to a record low in 2021, continuing a downward trend that prompted Beijing to allow couples to have up to three children, amending its long-running one-child policy. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Veteran US diplomat Wendy Sherman is the woman conveying Washington’s messages about NATO expansion in Europe to Moscow – but the ‘hard-nosed’ negotiator was previously involved in sealing security deals with Pyongyang and Tehra...

Credit Suisse chairman Antonio Horta-Osorio resigned after just eight months on the job after a series of missteps, including reported breaches of Covid-related restrictions introduced by Switzerland and Britain. Read Full Article at RT...

In an ITV documentary scheduled to air Tuesday, Paul Page, who protected the Duke of York from 1998 to 2004, alleges that Maxwell was so close to Prince Andrew that she was allowed to enter and exit Buckingham Palace at will. Read Full ...

Sierra Leone were gifted a last-gasp equalizer when unfortunate Badra Ali Sangare pawed a pass into the path of Alhaji Kamara – and ex-Tottenham defender Serge Aurier went in goal after the goalkeeper was stretchered off. Read Full Ar...

The producers of the new Harry Potter series want the wizards to be played by transgender and nonbinary actors. But the woke project can still be derailed by J. K. Rowling, who hasn’t given them permission to use her characters. Read ...

The US territory of Puerto Rico has become the new hot destination for cryptocurrency entrepreneurs as it has crypto-friendly policies, including huge tax breaks to those who spend at least 183 days on the island each year. Read Full Ar...

Steam users have noticed that the digital board game version of ‘Pandemic’ had been pulled from the store without any explanation from the publisher. The game was also taken down from Google and Apple app stores. Read Full Article a...

In new guidelines published by the Robert Koch Institute, Germans who have recovered from Covid-19 will only have immunity status for a period of 90 days, down from 180 days. Read Full Article at RT.com

A recently disclosed Apple Safari 15 bug can be used by nefarious sites to extract people’s browsing history and obtain their Google ID to collect more personal data, a fraud detector reports. Read Full Article at RT.com

Italy’s Salvatore Caruso was handed a straight-sets drubbing in the Australian Open first round after stepping in for the deported Novak Djokovic, as opponent Miomir Kecmanovic pledged to dedicate victory to his countryman. Read Full ...

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin instructed police to respond to alleged Nazi salutes at a health pass protest held by a presidential hopeful. The organizer denied the incidents occurred. Read Full Article at RT.com

Oxfam, a charity confederation, has said that while the wealth of the world’s top 10 richest people has doubled during the pandemic, the poor around the globe continue to suffer due to a dearth of vaccines and treatment. Read Full Art...

Australian Open contender Rafael Nadal has discussed "justice" after Novak Djokovic was deported from Melbourne because he was not vaccinated against Covid, reportedly adding that his familiar rival is "one of the responsibles". Read Fu...

Prince Harry has filed a claim against the Home Office’s decision to prevent him from paying for police protection for himself and his family while in the UK, saying it is currently too dangerous for them to return home. Read Full Art...

After his deportation from Australia, Novak Djokovic could be forced to miss another Grand Slam after French Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu signaled a vaccination pass will be mandatory for international athletes. Read Full Article ...

George Nader funneled millions of UAE money to “Our Sister” Hillary Clinton Read Full Article at RT.com

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, declared wanted last month for a number of serious crimes, including high treason, has flown back to Kiev in time for a court hearing that could see him remanded in custody. Read Full Article...

Some 45 percent of the US commercial fleet have been cleared for low-visibility landing at just over half of the airports most affected by 5G interference, the FAA said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian-language media in Ukraine will now be forced to publish a secondary version in the country's official tongue under a new law that selectively bans "foreign" language publications that don't come with a translation. Read Full Art...

Novak Djokovic could avoid a three-year ban from Australia but would only be allowed to return “in the right circumstances,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison has suggested. Read Full Article at RT.com

World number one Novak Djokovic took time for photographs with fans after the Serb landed in Dubai, where he was transferring en route to Belgrade after being deprived of the chance to defend his Australian Open title. Read Full Article...

The list of social events attended by embattled UK PM Boris Johnson despite the lockdown keeps growing, with The Mirror reporting that he also delivered a speech at his defense adviser’s farewell party before Christmas last year. Read...

A local man in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk has gone to the highest level to complain about a new public installation, arguing that statues of witches and of their cauldron fly in the face of his religious beliefs. Read Full Article ...

The state’s attorney for Baltimore requested God’s intervention at a church on Sunday after being charged with perjury and falsifying documents, as the reverend suggested racism was at least partially to blame for the indictment. Re...

The Australian government has officially allowed visitors who can prove they have been fully vaccinated with Russia's Sputnik V Covid vaccine to enter the country, starting from Monday. Read Full Article at RT.com

A US Navy submarine carrying dozens of nuclear warheads sailed into a Pacific base for a rare visit on Saturday, with the Navy calling it a message to allies in the region. Read Full Article at RT.com

UFC President Dana White defended podcast host and UFC commentator Joe Rogan after Rogan was called a “menace to public health” in an open letter signed by 270 doctors, scientists, and professors. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Portland Police Bureau has launched an investigation after a ‘right wing meme’ about officers beating a “dirty hippy” with dreadlocks was included in a police training presentation. Read Full Article at RT.com

Police in northwestern England announced the arrest of “two teenagers” over a possible link to Saturday’s incident in Colleyville, Texas which saw a British man taking people hostage in a synagogue. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Canadian government has warned its citizens against non-essential travel to Ukraine in a new travel advisory citing “Russian aggression” in the area. Read Full Article at RT.com

Pyongyang has carried out another suspected missile launch, the South Korean military reported. The reclusive nation has stepped up its missile activity, already firing two “hypersonic” missiles in as many months. Read Full Article ...

NATO’s “gradual invasion” into Ukraine has brought the US-led bloc right up to Moscow’s “red line,” the Kremlin has told CNN. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman says the situation poses an imminent threat to European secur...

A 50-year-old bulk carrier brought maritime traffic in the Bosphorus Strait – a major international waterway – to a brief halt after it broke down near a bridge, making passage impossible. Read Full Article at RT.com