text

US presses, but Russia reluctant on Ukraine grain deal

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations warned that global food security depends on renewing the U.N.-brokered deal allowing Ukrainian grain exports, saying Tuesday t

text

Russia unveils model of its planned new space station

Russia's space agency on Monday unveiled for the first time a physical model of what a planned new Russian-built space station will look like, suggesting Moscow is seri

text

Putin, Lukashenko arrive at Vostochny Cosmodrome in east Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko arrived at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far Eastern region of Amur on Tuesd

text

World's largest plane destroyed in Ukraine

The world's largest aircraft, the Antonov AN-225, has been destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials, generating alarm and sadn

text

New book tells stories of CPC and its international friends

A book titled Shared Ideals: The Communist Party of China and its Cherished Friends from Around the World was launched on July 23 in Beijing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the C

text

Health and wellness apps maker Palta raises $100M Series B led by VNV Global

Health and wellness apps startup Palta, has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Per Brillioth at VNV Global, with the participation of Target Global and other existing and new investors. Th

text

A dream 52 years in the making: Amazon founder ready to blast off into space

Jeff Bezos will head into space 52 years to the day since Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

text

Graphics: Human spaceflight at 60, the past and future

China's space station is now welcoming its first guests from the Earth after three astronauts successfully boarded on Thursday.The crew, comprising two with previous sp

text

Honduras prison clash leaves 5 dead, 15 injured

A clash between rival gangs at a prison in eastern Honduras left five inmates dead and 15 others injured on Thursday, authorities said.The incident took place at the La Tolva prison in Moroceli, a ci

text

Euro 2020: Matchday 2 roundup

Wales 1 – 1 Switzerland Wales' Kieffer Moore scores against Switzerland. /Reuters A game befit its booking as the early game of the day as it was a fairly boring duel between two mediocre side

text

Albania's president lambastes US ambassador on TV talk show

Albania's president has accused the U.S. ambassador of intervening in the small European country’s internal affairs by supporting its prime minister in an upcoming parl

text

Queen enters 'twilight' of reign after farewell to Philip

Now that the Royal Family has said farewell to Prince Philip, attention will turn to Queen Elizabeth II’s 95th birthday on Wednesday and, in coming months, the celebrat

text

Russia to decide on ISS withdrawal from 2025

Russia will conduct a technical inspection of the International Space Station and will make a decision on withdrawing from the project from 2025, reported TASS News Agency on Sunday."Lately, reports

text

Win-win Sino-Russian cooperation on the Arctic Silk Road

Researchers on Cape Nimrod on Alexandra Land, an island of the Franz Joseph Land archipelago, in the Arctic Ocean during the Umka 2021 expedition organised by the Russian Geographical Society. /G

text

Singapore researchers using AI to identify cancer cells by acidity

Although cancer cells and normal cells have many key differences, they can look rather similar under a microscope. A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a tech

text

Technical issue delays historic flight for Mars helicopter Ingenuity

NASA has stood down the first ever flight on another planet after telemetry data from a test suggested something was wrong.

text

All aboard! Next stop space ...

Virgin Galactic, a vertically integrated aerospace and space travel company, reveals the cabin interior of its first SpaceShipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity in 2020. /CFP Several hundred people have a