On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race. Sputnik 1 was the first ...

Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental ... described the United States' sudden “crisis of confidence” about its technology, its military capability, and even its values.

Russian officials are making a huge push across the country to boost birth rates and get women to procreate by encouraging ...

Russia has reaffirmed the existence of its emergency communication hotlines with the United States and NATO as tensions ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a much-anticipated general amnesty, granting pardons for a range of crimes including ...

Americans cite the economy as the most important of 22 issues in influencing their presidential vote, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday, reported Sputnik.  Just over half of the poll’s ...

Terms may apply to offers listed on this page. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 was one of the main contributors to the broader global financial crisis of the time. Also known as the Great ...

Mridul Wadhwa – a trans woman – resigned after a Rape Crisis Scotland report found she failed to behave professionally while head of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC). The investigation ...

The subsidy has survived for decades, despite several attempts to get rid of it. President Bola Tinubu announced at his inauguration last year that the fuel subsidy “is gone”. Yet it quickly ...

Cuba faced an electricity shortfall surpassing 1,270 MW, already exceeding the 1,264 MW predicted for Thursday night's peak ...