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Kazakhstan representatives at Miss World and Miss Universe unveiled Ainur Toleulova and Zhazira Nurimbetova will represent Kazakhstan at the two most prestigious beauty pageants of the year.

12 August 2013 16:26

Snowden's father has visa to visit Russia: lawyer The father of fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has obtained a visa to visit his son in Russia.

12 August 2013 16:13

Big animals crucial for soil fertility: study The mass extinction of large animals in the Pleistocene era caused today's dearth of soil nutrients, scientists said Sunday, and warned of further damage if modern giants like the elephant disappear.

12 August 2013 14:44

Prince Harry visits Angola with landmine charity Britain's Prince Harry is in Angola to see landmine clearance work by a charity championed by his late mother Princess Diana.

12 August 2013 11:00

Philippines works to contain huge diesel spill Philippine authorities said they were working Saturday to contain a huge diesel spill that shut down parts of Manila Bay's vital fishing industry.

11 August 2013 14:31

Abbott vows to be Australia's 'PM for Aborigines' Australian conservative leader Tony Abbott pledged Saturday to spend one week every year in a remote indigenous community if elected, saying he wanted to be the "prime minister for Aboriginal affairs".

10 August 2013 18:20

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 14:39

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 13:30

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 10:43

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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 19:08

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 19:01

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 18:11

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 17:16

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 17:05

5 million Chinese tourists to visit Kazakhstan during EXPO-2017 Kazakhstan is expecting 5 million tourists from China during the international exhibition EXPO-2017.

09 August 2013 16:56

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 14:19

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 11:41

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 10:41

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 18:15