Islamic State partially destroyed a second ancient temple in Palmyra, just days after blowing up another historic site, a Syrian monitor says. The 2,000-year-old Bel temple, northeast of Damascus, is considered one of the world’s greatest ancient relics. 
A NASA-sponsored research produced a liquid compound that hardens in a matter of seconds after contacting air. It can be used to create self-sealing walls on aircraft, making punctures a less-threatening threat in space. 
Isn't it adorable to watch an enthusiastic toddler doing what her big brother asks her to? Probably not, if she is making Nazi salutes, saying she would gladly knife Russians or impersonating an Islamist fighter brandishing a big knife in her hand. 
At least 36 people have been killed after an airstrike by Saudi-led coalition forces hit a bottling plant in northern Yemen, residents told Reuters. 
A nuclear strike against Afghanistan was on the table in Washington in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, a senior German diplomat told Spiegel magazine. 
As Russia and China were staging their biggest joint maritime exercises in the history, RT correspondent Daniel Bushell was aboard the Russian flagship to take the action in first hand. 
The death toll from a massive truck crash in Swaziland on Friday, which claimed the lives of girls and young women traveling to an annual dance festival, where one was to be picked as the king’s newest bride, has risen to 65, Swaziland Solidarity Network reported. 
Tonight the world has been able to observe a spectacular celestial phenomenon – the supermoon, also known as the Sturgeon Moon. It is the first of three consecutive “supermoons” occurring this year. 
At least four people were killed and eight injured when a fire broke out at a detention center in the Russian city of Ulyanovsk on Saturday evening. 
The leaders of Russia, France and Germany had a phone talk over the Ukraine crisis on Saturday, calling for adherence to the Minsk agreements. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s President Poroshenko announced new changes to the constitution, removing “special status” for Ukrainian cities. 
An Israeli soldier attempting to put a suspected pre-teen stone-thrower in the West Bank in a headlock was beaten off by the collective efforts of his Palestinian family. IDF have called the incident a “violent provocation” by a family of celebrity activists. 
Long-term intake of the Monsanto’s most popular Roundup herbicide, even in very small amounts lower than permissible in US water, may lead to kidney and liver damage, a new study claims. 
At least 100 schoolchildren have been taken to the hospital after suspected gas poisoning in Herat Province, western Afghanistan, officials said, adding that the children “felt dizzy” at their school and several of them “had fallen unconscious.” 
Ukraine is hosting naval military exercise in the Black Sea with NATO forces, involving 2,500 troops and some 150 military vehicles, from warships and helicopters to armored cars. 
The US-Canadian border has become an issue in the 2016 US presidential campaign, as prominent Republican candidate Scott Walker entertained the idea of building a great wall between the two allied countries, which share the longest border in the world. 
A group of MIT scientists says they have developed the world’s first 3D-printer capable of making ready-to-use objects from 10 different materials at once. The new device, supplied with powerful software, boasts nearly human-free operation. 
The Nazi gold train that made headlines last week could contain the legendary Amber Room, presented to Tsar Peter the Great by the King of Prussia, according to British author and journalist Tom Bower. Meanwhile, the Polish have lawyered up, staking a claim to the finds. 
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s right-wing National Front party, declared that immigration should be brought to a halt, calling for the country’s borders to be closed. Meanwhile, the far-right Sweden Democrats say a referendum should be held on the issue. 
US scientists have conducted potentially revolutionary research that could force a rewrite of the Standard Model, the theory for how particles interact, which has been accepted by physicists since the 1970s. 
This week Russia hosted one of the world’s biggest aviation events, the MAKS-2015 air show. RT looks back on the highlights of the expo, from the public aerobatics premiere of PAK FA, Russia’s first 5th-gen fighter jet, to historic WWII planes. 
The possibility of a new peace deal agreement that could improve the situation in Eastern Ukraine is off the table, says Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko, as a contact group meeting in Minsk ended with a proposal to ensure a stable ceasefire. 
Police in St. Louis County have arrested a man on suspicion of killing the 9-year-old Jamyla Bolden in Ferguson. Court documents show De'Eris Brown, 21, has confessed to the killing. 
Visitors to Banksy’s Dismaland bemusement park are being asked to bring a form of ID to prove they are the person named on the ticket in an attempt to clamp down on sales by online touts. 
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has released images of a shimmering "cosmic butterfly," or the Twin Jet Nebula, made up of an aging star's exposed core and a smaller star that create an illuminating rainbow in space. 
A new United Nations report has called on the Netherlands to eliminate or alter the centuries-long tradition of celebrating the winter festive season with a controversial character known as Black Pete, a dark-skinned assistant to St. Nicholas. 
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, traces of the disaster continue to linger. While some parts of the city have recovered completely, other areas seem to be frozen in the aftermath of the catastrophe. 
Warsaw has made a plea to treasure hunters, asking them to stop searching for a missing World War II Nazi train which is rumored to have contained precious objects. It comes one week after two men claimed to have discovered it in Poland. 
Psychosis is a complicated disorder that has long been left to the expertise of psychiatrists. However, that appears to be changing. A computer program is now able to predict the disorder simply by observing language patterns, according to a new study. 
Sweden will now hold talks with Ecuador over the 2010 sex crime allegations against WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange, who has now spent three years inside the Latin American nation’s London embassy. 
A British man has pleaded guilty in a New York court to conspiring to import 100kg of pure North Korean methamphetamines into the United States, according to the US Department of Justice. 
Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha could be at risk of contracting waterborne diseases after accidentally surfing in coastal waters filled with raw sewage during their family holiday to Cornwall this week. 
In a worrying global trend, the Middle East is set for a record water shortage to strike over the next 25 years. The global fallout from the recent record heatwaves will force more and more people into overcrowded cities and stagnate economic growth. 
In addition to the human cost of 1,836 lives lost and over one million people displaced in the Gulf Coast region, Hurricane Katrina had staggering impact on the local economy and was the costliest natural disaster in United States history. 
British youths who identify as Goths are three times more likely to self-harm and be clinically depressed than other youth subcultures such as ‘chavs’, a joint Oxford and Bristol university study has revealed. 
The fatal attack on two Virginia journalists this week was "well-planned and premeditated," state officials said, adding that the gunman “very closely identified” with the terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. 
A Russian MP has proposed a legislative amendment allowing regions to put a cap on the maximum numbers of pets someone can keep after social services had to take away children from a woman who lived in an apartment with 20 cats. 
A disgraced Tory embroiled in an expense scandal, a multimillionaire donor, and a slew of political cronies have been handed peerages by Prime Minister David Cameron, sparking fresh demand for drastic reform of the House of Lords. 
Federal prosecutors have announced they will join an investigation into the suspicious death of a New York prison inmate. Witnesses say Samuel Harrell was beaten to death by a ‘Beat Up Squad’ of corrections officers following an altercation. 
In the first six months of 2015, the import of banned products has fallen by nearly half to $6 billion, according to Friday's report from Russia's Ministry of Economic Development. 
Two French journalists have been arrested in Paris for allegedly blackmailing King Mohammed VI of Morocco. They were writing a book about the monarch and reportedly accepted a payment of €3 million from the Moroccan government. 
Women who face “covert,” low-level sexism in the workplace risk as much psychological damage as those facing “overt” or obvious unwanted advances from male colleagues, a new study shows. 
A former Arizona police officer, who killed six people during his 12-year career before it ended after the latest shooting, is now selling firearm training simulators that jolt people who hesitate to shoot. 
One YouTuber decided to show what a home-made Superman would look like. Quite epic, as it turns out. And the best part is you can pretty much fly him wherever you please.
War is imminent in the Japanese gang world, police say, as Yamaguchi-gumi – the largest yakuza conglomerate – is facing a split. Authorities are awaiting an outbreak of bloody violence, as the syndicate boasts some 43 percent of all Japan’s gang members. 
Scientists in Norway have claimed a sensational discovery: prehistoric carvings from the Stone Age deep inside the Arctic Circle. The images of elk and reindeer are about 7,000 years old, they say. 
A multiagency crackdown in central Melbourne that would have involved freshly empowered immigration officers checking visas has been canceled after mass protests. 
Facing a severe four-year drought crisis, residents of the Golden State have responded to the governor’s call to limit water use, outstripping his original conservation target by 6 percent. 
American military forces captured only three out of the 116 prisoners still remaining at the Guantanamo Bay prison complex in Cuba, a new analysis by the Guardian discovered. Many of those left were sold to the US for monetary rewards. 
The Pentagon has spent nearly $4 billion fighting Islamic State across Syria and Iraq since operations began a year ago, according to statistics released this week. The average daily cost of the campaign is $9.9 million, or $6,785 a minute. 
Five whistleblowers are suing the Justice Department, National Security Agency, FBI and their former directors for violating their constitutional and civil rights after they complained about government waste and fraud through proper channels. 