Follow RT on German drugs maker Bayer is closely watching the plant-based meat market which has seen booming demand in recent years. The company says it could potentially enter the market as a provider of an alternative protein source. According to Bob Reiter, Bayer’s head of research and development at its crop science division, plant-based…

Follow RT on Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly implored his teammate Paulo Dybala to join his former club Manchester United this summer if he wants to ‘become a champion’ amid interest in the Argentine from Old Trafford. Ronaldo is said to have made the comments in a Juventus players’ WhatsApp group as the club’s…

Follow RT on Australia’s Nick Kyrgios added another episode to his litany of on-court outbursts by hurling a bottle of water at the umpire’s chair during his third-round match at the Citi Open – before claiming “it slipped out of his hand.” The 24-year-old recorded a confident 6-2 7-5 victory over 77-ranked Yoshihito Nishioka of…

Follow RT on Shortly after Donald Trump offered himself as a mediator to fix the bitter Kashmir conflict, India’s foreign minister made it clear to Mike Pompeo that Pakistan is the only interlocutor New Delhi needs to talk to about the issue. Speaking “in clear terms,” India’s top diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told Secretary of State…

Follow RT on One of India’s busiest transit routes is getting a serious upgrade with the announcement of a $10bn hyperloop project, expected to be the world’s first, which will ferry passengers 117.5km from Mumbai to Pune in just 23 minutes. The Maharashtra provincial cabinet approved the Rs 70,000 crore (~US$10bn) project in a meeting…

Follow RT on A new development in the case of the Russian gun activist Maria Butina has emerged after an FBI informant, with whom she had an affair, revealed that he repeatedly told the agency that the woman posed no threat to the US. Butina’s lawyer, Robert Driscoll, issued a statement last week, saying that…

Follow RT on US President Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman on Wednesday for talks on a controversial US plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace, AFP reported. They discussed “efforts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” the royal court said, adding that Kushner was “visiting Jordan on a tour…

Follow RT on South Korea warned Japan on Thursday that it would review security cooperation if Tokyo pushes ahead with plans to remove Seoul from its “white list” of trusted trade partners. Seoul’s Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha met her Japanese counterpart Taro Kono on Thursday, on the sidelines of a regional foreign ministers’ meeting in…

Follow RT on Moscow is opposed to dividing Southeast Asia into blocs, a scenario envisaged by the Indo-Pacific strategy promoted by the US, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. “The Indo-Pacific strategies undermine the core role played by ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations),” he said in Bangkok. “Of course, they are…

Follow RT on The British might have invented cartoons, but the Iranians seem to have mastered the art, as Tehran hosts an exhibition of cartoons depicting “pirate” Queen Elizabeth II amid the maritime showdown between the two countries. The display, entitled ‘Pirates of the Queen’, is running in the capital, Tehran till mid-August. Posters for…