For the first time in more than 50 years, humanity will send a crew around the Moon. The upcoming journey is expected to be the longest space flight in history, according to the American space agency NASA. “Every night I look at the moon and I see it... And I get really excited because I feel it calling us. We are ready,” said NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Science Missions Laurie Glaze. Sending four astronauts to the Moon will take place as part of the Artemis 2 mission.

At a meeting of representatives of European Union member states, Hungary opposed the EU issuing debt guaranteed by the bloc's budget, the Financial Times reports . EU leaders agreed on a loan in December 2025 to support Ukraine, which, according to the publication, will face a budget deficit in April 2026. However, for the decision to officially enter into force, it must be unanimously approved by all 27 EU states.

In 1997, 12-year-old Masha Sharanda and 9-year-old Varya Penzina went into the forest to pick mushrooms and disappeared. In the Yakut city of Lensk, where the girls are from, this was not the first such disappearance - the police had long been hunting for a pedophile maniac, but could not catch him. This time he was detained, but they could not prove his guilt in all crimes. As a result, he served time for only the murder of two girls, was released in 2015 and continued to commit crimes.

American businessman and the richest person on the planet Elon Musk said that he will pay $500 billion in taxes over his lifetime. He wrote about this on his social network X. However, the billionaire did not explain how he calculated this figure. Musk only added that he had already paid taxes totaling more than $10 billion. He also called himself the largest individual taxpayer in human history. “I thought the IRS would send me some small trophy.

The assassination of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was a key part of Russia's plan to seize Ukrainian territory. The Kremlin expected to complete the plan in a few days: during this time, Zelensky was either captured or killed, CNN reports . A publication source close to Western and Ukrainian intelligence services said that Russian agents rented several apartments. They were in close proximity to the presidential office in Kyiv.

Abandoned by his mother, six-month-old male macaque Punch, who lives in a zoo in the Japanese city of Ichikawa near Tokyo, found a friend in the form of a stuffed monkey from IKEA and became a social media star. Euronews reports on this. Punch was born in July 2025. His mother abandoned him, probably due to a difficult birth during the heat. For the first few months, the cub saw only the zoo staff who cared for it.

In Moscow, a woman attacked teenage girls who did not give her a seat, the telegram channel “Caution, News” reported . According to journalists, the incident occurred today, February 20, at about 14:00 on tram No. 6. At this time, 16-year-old students were returning from classes at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology. At a stop near the Skhodnenskaya metro station, a woman with her teenage daughter got on the tram.

Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold wrote to American financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein that Vladimir Putin’s “wife and daughter” were on his yacht. This follows from documents published by the US Department of Justice, to which Meduza drew attention . In one of the files, journalists found a fragment of correspondence between the manager and the financier.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that President Donald Trump exceeded his powers when he imposed massive tariffs on the import of foreign goods, the BBC reports . The decision to cancel most of the trade tariffs that Trump introduced after his inauguration and return to the White House was upheld by the Supreme Court by a majority vote. Six judges called the president's actions beyond the law, and three disagreed with this interpretation.

The Spanish company Inditex Group, which owns the Zara brand, has registered a trademark in Russia. The corresponding entry appeared in the electronic database of Rospatent, RIA Novosti reports . Documents for registration of the Zara Origins trademark were sent to Rospatent in March 2025. The applicant is the Spanish company Industria De Diseno Textile. In February 2026, the Russian department completed the registration procedure and approved the trademark.

In the Italian city of Catania in Sicily, a man trained his dog to throw away bags of garbage on the side of the road so as not to be caught on CCTV cameras. This was reported by The Guardian with reference to local police. However, a dog with a bag of garbage in his teeth, regularly caught on camera, aroused suspicion. Cameras have repeatedly captured the small dog walking along Via Pulacara in the San Giorgio area and then carefully placing a package next to the road.

Modern digital devices are increasingly becoming vulnerable to attackers. At the same time, it is extremely rare to determine visually whether a device is hacked or not, reports RIA Novosti. “Hacking of smart vacuum cleaners, or rather their software, has long been a reality.

The trailer for Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5 showed the return of cowboy Woody, sporting a receding hairline. The British publication Metro writes about this. According to the plot, Woody returns to the girl Bonnie after he went to help the lost toys at the end of the last part. The pet toys asked him to help them deal with a new threat to their existence - the frog-shaped tablet Lilypad.

Thailand became one of the key supply routes for Chinese drones to Russia in the third year after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Bloomberg reports this. As journalists learned from official customs data, in the first 11 months of 2025, Russia imported $125 million worth of drones from Thailand—that’s 88% of all Thai drone exports and eight times more than a year earlier.

Russian policeman Ivan Semenikhin, who participated in a large-scale operation to search and rescue a seven-year-old boy kidnapped by a pedophile, has been in a Moscow pre-trial detention center for more than a year. In February 2025, he was arrested in a case of treason, the BBC published together with the BBC Eye project.