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Critically ill Mandela 'more alert' every day: daughter Nelson Mandela is becoming more alert and more responsive by the day, his youngest daughter said Friday, adding that the anti-apartheid hero is "not going anywhere anytime soon".

10 August 2013

Monasteries decline as TV and smartphones grip Bhutan Kencho Tshering, a red-robed Buddhist monk, takes a call from the King of Bhutan's office, then duly dashes off to start a ceremony praying for a break in the monsoon rains.

10 August 2013

Green sea turtles eat more plastic than ever: study Endangered green turtles are ingesting more man-made debris, including potentially lethal plastic products, than ever before.

10 August 2013

Philippine oil spill turns Manila Bay red A diesel oil spill spread a large reddish stain over Manila Bay in the Philippines' capital on Friday, posing potential health and environmental hazards.

10 August 2013

Rifles and swards discovered in parcels from U.S. and Netherlands in Almaty airport The customs service of Almaty airport has discovered rifles and swords in parcels from the United States and the Netherlands.

09 August 2013

Camel may be MERS virus host: study Researchers on Friday pointed to the Arabian camel as a possible host of the deadly human MERS virus plaguing the Middle East.

09 August 2013

Light cast on NY subway's dead shark mystery Beachgoers came forward Thursday with a plausible explanation for why a dead shark turned up in a New York subway train two days before.

09 August 2013

Kazakhstani takes 2nd runner-up title at Miss & Mister Deaf International Pageant Amina Usmanova from Almaty has become the 2nd runner-up at the 2013 Miss & Mister Deaf International Pageant in Sofia, Bulgaria.

09 August 2013

Correctional camp for gilded youth opens near Astana A camp for correctional education of Kazakhstan's gilded youth has opened up in some depressed village in Akmola oblast.

09 August 2013

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Women promote mosques 'for all' in Britain In the damp basement room of a Caribbean restaurant in London, Naima leads prayers for an audience of male and female worshippers.

09 August 2013

Researchers propose new experiments on mutant bird flu Scientists proposed developing a more potent strain of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on Wednesday to examine how mutant forms might spread among humans, a topic that has stoked global alarm in the past.

09 August 2013

Rare Schindler documents up for auction Rare documents that a historian says fill in some major gaps in the story of Holocaust hero Oskar Schindler have gone up for auction online.

09 August 2013

Chinese herb remedy extract linked to cancer: study A plant extract used in Chinese herbal remedies for arthritis, gout and inflammation has been directly linked to cancer and causes a surprising number of genetic mutations.

08 August 2013

Kazakhstan's Olzhas Suleimenov among 22 world's foremost thinkers Kazakhstan activist and poet Olzhas Suleimenov has got onto the list of 22 outstanding thinkers whose ideas were published in the book of Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa.

08 August 2013

Kazakhstan Bone Marrow Transplantation Department strives for international accreditation Bone Marrow Transplantation Department of the State Scientific Center of Emergency Medicine in Astana is planning to get an international accreditation.

08 August 2013

265 thousand first graders to hit schools September 1 in Kazakhstan More than 260 thousand children will go to the 1st grade at schools throughout Kazakhstan on September 1, 2013.

08 August 2013

Briton gives birth to biggest baby ever born naturally in Spain A 40-year-old British woman gave birth Wednesday to the biggest baby ever born naturally in Spain -- a girl weighing 6.2 kilos (13 pounds).

08 August 2013

First likely case of H7N9 bird flu spread by humans reported Chinese scientists on Wednesday reported the first likely case of direct person-to-person transmission of the H7N9 bird flu virus that has killed over 40 people since March.

07 August 2013

Dolphins remember friends' whistles for decades: study Bottlenose dolphins can remember each other's signature whistles for more than 20 years, a study said Wednesday -- the longest social memory ever observed in an animal.

07 August 2013