Space Oddity: Russia’s Soyuz returns from ISS to David Bowie tune

Three ISS crew members have returned to Earth aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft after a five-month stint. During the mission commander Chris Hatfield took the internet by storm with his cosmic rendition of David Bowie’s song Space Oddity.

May 14, 2013 03:07

Russia celebrates Easter as Holy Week draws to an end

Over 300,000 people have visited Moscow’s churches and monasteries over the Easter weekend in Russia. Police patrols were on alert to prevent breaches of peace and crime, with over 6,000 officers deployed to guard the city’s monasteries and churches.

May 03, 2013 12:31

‘Iceland proved there is a way of dealing with financial crisis in isolated country’

Iceland has been praised for its handling of the financial crisis, during which politicians allowed banks to fail, rather than bailing them out. Economic expert Margaret Bogenrief explained why in the case of the EU the solution is unlikely to help.

April 27, 2013 01:22

‘Tamerlan was not a religious fanatic’ – Tsarnaevs’ relative to RT

As investigators are struggling to understand the motives behind the deadly Boston bombing, RT spoke to a relative of the suspected attackers who stressed that the elder of Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan, was not a religious fanatic.

April 21, 2013 09:40

'Day of Action to Close Guantanamo': US cities protest Obama's inaction

With Guantanamo prisoners on hunger strike for over two months, human rights activists across the United States demonstrated against the country's treatment of detainees in the offshore US prison camp.

April 12, 2013 00:40

‘If you were a man, we’d kill you’: Captive journalist tells RT how she escaped Syrian rebels

‘I couldn’t bear it any longer’, recalls Anhar Kochneva. The Ukrainian journalist who escaped Syrian rebels five months after she was kidnapped told RT about what she had to go through while in captivity and how she managed to run away.

March 13, 2013 18:52