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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Rather than creating a real hurdle, US sanctions against Huawei have motivated the Chinese tech giant to move toward greater self-reliance by creating a new mobile platform and promoting innovative initiatives, Huawei Vice President and Chief Digital Transformation Officer Edwin Diender said.

After her husband Liam Hemsworth filed for divorce this August, the 26-year-old singer and actress seems to be enjoying her new single life, reportedly diving into a new romance with Australian singer Cody Simpson. She is not forgetting to keep her fans updated about “the new her” on social media either, even if it means breaking the nudity ban.

Quantum computers, if they are adapted for a use outside laboratories, can be used to achieve breakthroughs in such spheres as machine learning, materials science and chemistry, but it can also pose a security threat, since it's widely considered that such computers will be able to crack any encryption in no time.

New Delhi (Sputnik): A notorious poacher who has a bizarre obsession with eating sloth bears penises after killing them has been arrested again after absconding for six years.

New Delhi (Sputnik): A viral wedding invitation supposedly from one of Bollywood’s most talked-of couples – Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor – became the talk of the town for many movie buffs on Indian social media, before it was revealed as a prank.

Though she rarely puts on makeup, this time the young acting diva sported a rather heavy done up look, which, however, hardly stood a chance of distracting millions of prying eyes from the rest of her body.

The findings also indicate 61 percent of musicians feel they’re more at risk because they work on a freelance basis, with just 19 percent saying the contracts they work under include policies or procedures to deal with incidents of sexual harassment.

NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - NASA has found no trace of the Indian lunar lander, dubbed Vikram, in the images captured during its Moon orbiter's latest flyby of the lunar region where the lander made a hard landing on 7 September, Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission Noah Petro said.

Pre-university students from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in Moscow have created sneakers that can give directions, count a person's steps and tally the number calories burned, the university’s press service said.

New Delhi (Sputnik): "XXX: Return of Xander Cage" star Deepika Padukone will share space on the screen with her ex-crush Ranbir Kapoor for the first time since marrying actor Ranveer Singh.

Donald Trump has previously referred to his daughter Ivanka and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as the “Beauty and the Beast”, something which was seemingly appreciated by both, who are now heading to the state of Kansas together.

Since winning the 2016 presidential election Donald Trump has been facing intensified criticism from US citizens, accusing the president of allegedly having ties with Moscow, abusing his power, and choosing the wrong political course.

While women on average have better grades at school, they tend to be outperformed by men on the college test, which the organisation Liberal Students ascribed to a “higher cognitive ability”. Yet they've still advocated for the test's abolition, despite the fact that women already outnumber men at Swedish colleges.

Jessica Yaniv, who has yet to undergo sex reassignment surgery, has filed more than a dozen lawsuits against beauticians in recent years, forcing some of them out of business. In one case, she sought more than $15,000 thousand in damages.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A soyuz spaceship will be customised for a tourist trip to the International Space Station (ISS) so that one person may pilot it rather than a three-person crew, Sergei Krikalev, executive director for human spaceflight at Russia's space agency Roscosmos, said.

The time-lapse image, a composite of 400 photos, reveals how earthly events seen from space reveal the glory of our planet.

In the ongoing fight against sexism and gender discrimination, new pockets of resistance are continually uncovered as even museums try to sneak a bit of inequality into their collections.

The porn actress shared on social media photos and video of sensitive areas inside the New York Police Department, sparking outrage among police officers and brass, as well as netizens.

As the Chicago teachers’ strike gears up for its fifth day and more than 300,000 students remain out of school, negotiations between the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Chicago Public Schools remain at a standstill.

Security research hackers have developed third-party apps that can secretly listen to people’s conversations via Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices.