Society

If you think you’re too old to learn new things, think again: a 94-year old woman from Honolulu has just graduated from college, and with top marks.

The US-based YouTube online video hosting service stated its request on sanctioned RT employees was not politically motivated, RT Head of Online Projects Kirill Karnovich-Valua said Thursday.

In the developed world, Iceland has gone from having one of the highest rates of illegal drug, alcohol, and cigarette use among youth to some of the lowest in a mere twenty years, but psychologists behind this shift say it is unlikely to recur elsewhere.

US defense and aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin is developing a groundbreaking instrument that can examine the universe’s "dark energy."

UK journalist Graham Phillips said Thursday that he was going to finalize the work on a film about Russian humanitarian activist Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Liza, who died in an airplane crash last month, in two weeks.

The European Space Agency (ESA) director called a human colony on the Moon ‘more or less fact’ in a Wednesday press conference in Paris due to the enormous amount of work being poured into a Moon village by numerous space agencies.

An experimental Alzheimer’s drug may have an unexpected dental application, as it has been shown to repair damage done by tooth decay, according to a team of stem cell researchers with King’s College London.

Six NASA researchers are set to lock themselves on a Hawaiian volcano for the next eight months, to assess the psychological impact of a lengthy stay in isolated, confined conditions similar to an off-planet outpost, in preparation for an eventual scientific colony on Mars.

A conflict between a billionaire and a bunch of islanders desperate to preserve their ancestral land sounds a bit like a Disney movie - but for some residents of Hawaii - it's a reality.

Fraud and cybercrimes in England and Wales have caused the total number of crimes experienced by adults aged 16 and over to nearly double, according to the latest figures released by the UK Office for National Statistics, Sputnik has been told.

Dmitry Geranin, the head of the popular Russian weather service Yandex.Pogoda, has initiated a new project aimed at helping people organize funerals for their friends and loved ones.

Social media has exploded over selfie pictures posted online of people posing at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial site, commemorating the deaths of six million Jews that have been satirized by Israeli satirist Shahak Shapira, in an effort to highlight the hijacking of the "horrors of the past."

Britain's Home Secretary has been issued with a warning from more than half of all the boroughs in London that another scandal involving children exploited to traffic drugs is about to emerge.

While media industry experts hold fierce discussions on the future of the profession and thousands of students from around the world are trained in journalism departments, Chinese robot reporter Xiao Nan made its debut in a Chinese daily on Thursday, churning out a 300-character-long article in just a second.

Bjoern Hoecke, Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD)'s parliamentary spokesperson and regional deputy in the state of Thuringia, has criticized Berlin's Holocaust memorial, and called for Germany to stop atoning for past deeds.

A team of scientists at the Airbus Defense and Space Center in the UK, have bid farewell to a satellite this week, which will allow for more accurate weather predictions, as it was shipped to France for testing, before being launched into space.

Life on Earth is thought to have emerged about 800 million years ago, but a shocking new study says that advanced animal-like creatures might have flourished on the planet 2.3 billion years ago, before they died out because of a sudden lack of oxygen.

A satellite built by students of a Brazilian middle school was launched into space from aboard the International Space Station on Monday, January 16.

The story of a mysterious 'Black Widow' who dwells at a cemetery mourning the death of her numerous husbands has taken Brazilian social networks by storm.

The RT broadcaster should obtain a response from Facebook regarding the partial blocking of its activities on the social media platform, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.