US Airlines, World Trade Center Owner Agree $95.2mln Payout for 9/11 Damage
November 27, 2017 at 10:18 AM
The owner of the World Trade Center in New York has agreed a $95.2 million settlement with American Airlines and United Airlines, to settle all claims resulting from the September 11 terrorist attacks which were commmitted using their passenger jets. Read More »
Bedtime! Finland's Married Children Trigger International Concern
November 26, 2017 at 02:52 PM
Each year, dozens of minors receive permission to marry from the Finnish state, a practice that has caused strong reactions from international watchdogs, including the UN Children's Fund UNICEF argue it could promote human trafficking and forced marriage. Read More »
Big Noise: Mysterious 'Boom' Sounds Heard Across the Globe Scare People (VIDEO)
November 25, 2017 at 09:50 AM
Throughout the year, people from dozens of cities around the globe had reported hearing inexplicable ground-shaking sounds, with the most recent noises noticed in Manchester, UK, and Alabama, US. The mysterious phenomenon has left netizens and experts scratching their heads as they try to find a reasonable explanation. Read More »
Daesh 'Price List' for Enslaved Yazidi Women Exposed
November 23, 2017 at 10:24 AM
Former Daesh sex slave Nadia Murad shocked the world this month with her book 'The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State', which described her suffering at the hands of the terrorists. Read More »
Volcano erupts on Indonesian resort island amid mass evacuations (VIDEOS)
November 22, 2017 at 02:21 PM
Tens of thousands of people had been forced to leave their homes in Bali over the past months fearing an inevitable Mount Agung volcanic eruption, which on Tuesday, finally spewed ash as high as 700 meters into the Indonesian sky. Read More »
Giant Skeleton Washes Ashore in Russia's Far East (PHOTOS)
November 21, 2017 at 11:07 AM
The five-meter-long carcass of a sea creature was found on the Bering Island buried under a thin layer of pebble and sand, REN TV has reported. Read More »
'Make a Wish': Astronaut Captures Fireball Entering Earth's Atmosphere (VIDEO)
November 21, 2017 at 10:56 AM
This footage once again confirms how beautiful the Earth looks from outer space.
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, who is currently on board the International Space Station, has published a video of a meteoroid entering our planet's dense atmosphere over the Atlantic Ocean. Read More »
Huge earthquakes in 2018 will put up to 1bn people at risk – scientists
November 20, 2017 at 02:40 PM
Scientists warn that fluctuations in the speed of Earth's rotation could trigger a swarm of devastating earthquakes across the globe, particularly in heavily populated tropical regions. Read More »
Climatologist Warns of Mass Disasters That Could Make Whole Countries Disappear
November 20, 2017 at 10:12 AM
Over 15,000 scientists from 184 countries have signed an open letter, warning of the greatest dangers to life on Earth and advocating a responsible approach to the environment. Sputnik discussed the issue wih one of the signatories, German climatologist Stefan Rahmstorf. Read More »
Every Ten Minutes One Girl Dies From Sexual Crime in Peru, Beauty Queens Reveal
November 19, 2017 at 03:52 PM
Beauty pageants regularly attract criticism over being highly sexist in the way they portray females' bodies - but it appears not in Peru. Read More »
