The Obama administration accused the UK of a “constant accommodation” of China after Britain decided to join a new China-led financial institution that could rival the World Bank. The rare rebuke of one of the US’s closest allies came as Britain prepared to announce that it will become a founding member of the $50bn Asian
Read more: US attacks London’s ‘constant accomodation’ of China
Swedish prosecutors have asked for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s approval to question him in London where he is currently holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy, the prosecutors said on Friday. The prosecutor is also asking to conduct a DNA test. Assange has been stuck inside the South American country’s London embassy since June 2012 to
The European Union is opposing a multibillion deal under which Hungary is to buy nuclear fuel rods from Russia for its old Paks nuclear power plant. Some media claim the deal has been blocked, though Budapest denies the reports. Russian nuclear engineers are to build two new reactors with combined capacity of 1,200 megawatts at
Read more: EU reportedly moves to block Russia-Hungary nuclear deal
Chumani Maxwele threw human faeces at the statue of Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town on Monday in order to eradicate the white liberal scourge he says. “It is not about me; it is about change. We as black students do not feel at home at UCT,” he said. Maxwele says blacks
Education facilities in Limpopo – including four schools – built at a cost of R143-million are standing empty and being vandalised despite a desperate need for proper infrastructure in the province. The provincial department of education allocated R106-million for the construction of three circuit offices in 2012 – one in Bochum (R33-million), another in Tshipse
Across much of the U.S. Facilities in the Midwest are about 70 percent full, while the East Coast is at about 85 percent capacity. This has some analysts beginning to wonder if the U.S. has enough room to store all its oil. Ed Morse, the global head of commodities research at Citigroup, raised that concern
Adults who have already mastered written English tend to forget about its many quirks. But consider this: English has 205 ways to spell 44 sounds. And not only can the same sounds be represented in different ways, but the same letter or letter combinations can also correspond to different sounds. For example, “cat,” “kangaroo,” “chrome,”
A Swedish girl who says she was raped by a 27-year-old man when she was just 13 has lost her appeal against his acquittal after a court ruled that the man could not have known she was under age because of her “well-developed” body. News of the court judgments sent Sweden’s social media into a
Read more: Child-rape acquittal in Sweden causes social media frenzy
Experts say the crisis in Ukraine is set to trigger the sale of state-owned farm land and small family plots to foreigners
Experts say the crisis in Ukraine is set to trigger the sale of state-owned farm land and small family plots to foreigners
US National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden, who has been living in Russia since mid-2013, on Friday made a public appeal for asylum in Switzerland, where he said he once worked under diplomatic cover for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “I would love to return to Switzerland, some of my favourite memories are from
As the investigation into the MH17 tragedy continues in eastern Ukraine, the SU-25’s chief designer has told German media that the fighter jet could not possibly have taken down the passenger plane. RT spoke to former pilots about the jet’s capabilities. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed down over
Two police officers have been shot during a protest outside Ferguson Police Station, according to the St. Louis County Police chief, who said their injuries were “very serious.” A 32-year-old officer from Webster Groves was shot in the face and a 41-year-old from St. Louis County was shot in the shoulder, Chief Jon Belmar told
On the back of the new Apple Watch, there are two sets of lights and sensors. One sends out and receives visible light, while the other works in the infrared part of the spectrum. Together, they form the technical core of the watch’s coolest feature–a heart rate monitor. This kind of design–using optical sensors to
Following the Duma, or Russian Parliament, President Vladimir Putin has signed the ratification of a law that sanctions Russian participation in the $100 billion BRICS Bank on Monday. The BRICS bank, Putin has said, “will become one of the largest multilateral financial development institutions in the world”. “The bank and the Currency Pool, with combined
