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Nazarbayev calls to make Kazakhstan green Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has held a field meeting on development of the Green Belt around Astana.

28 June 2013

Women's prayer tests ultra-Orthodox hold on Western Wall The singing rises through the early-morning cool which still covers the esplanade in front of the Western Wall, the holiest site at which Jews can pray.

28 June 2013

More than 2mn Tibetans rehoused, relocated: rights group More than two million Tibetans in China have been forced to change homes or relocate in a government-sponsored programme that is damaging their traditional culture and rural lifestyle.

28 June 2013

Gene clues show which children will grow out of asthma A gene scorecard may one day help predict which youngsters are likely to grow out of childhood asthma and which will have the disease in adulthood.

28 June 2013

Britain pushes ahead with 'three-parent' fertility technique The British government on Thursday said it would pursue a radical fertility technique that uses DNA from three parents to create an embryo.

28 June 2013

Lessons at home and homework at school in US When April Burton explains the intricacies of French grammar to her American classroom, the students are at home, in front of their computer or smartphone.

28 June 2013

Over 1 thousand dead seagulls discovered in Kazakhstan sector of Caspian Sea Mass mortality of seagulls has been registered at Shalyga island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea.

27 June 2013

Men dare to bare at Paris fashion Belgian designer Raf Simons on Wednesday got Paris fashion week off to an unconventional start, bussing hundreds of people out to the distinctly less than fashionable Paris suburb of Le Bourget.

27 June 2013

Winfrey heads Forbes celeb 'power' list Television talk show queen Oprah Winfrey was named the most powerful celebrity in the world on Wednesday as Forbes.com released its annual list of the top movers and shakers in the entertainment industry.

27 June 2013

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Rising seas washing away Pacific leader's home island As the US urges world leaders to ramp up action on climate change, the leader of one small island chain in the North Pacific Ocean has already got the message -- watching helplessly as rising seas slowly erode his birthplace.

26 June 2013

Paris fashion week kicks off After London and Milan, Paris on Wednesday picks up the fashion baton with the start of nine days of catwalk collections for 2014 kicking off with menswear and ending with haute couture,

26 June 2013

New flame-headed bird species found in Cambodia capital A new species of bird with a distinctive orange-red coloured tuft of feathers on its head has been found in Cambodia's populous capital city.

26 June 2013

In US, Asian immigrants better off than whites: study Asian immigrants tend to live in highly segregated enclaves in the United States and their income level is often higher than that of white Americans.

26 June 2013

Kazakhstan has no plans to divert Irtysh: authority The General Plan of Territories in Kazakhstan does not provide for diversion of the Irtysh River: Kazakh Scientific-Research and Design Institute of Construction and Architecture.

25 June 2013

Japanese racing pigeon flies across Pacific to Canada A plucky pigeon that flew across the Pacific Ocean from Japan will be bred by a bird lover in Canada hoping its progeny will make top long-distance racers.

25 June 2013

Kazakhstan allocates 600 quotas for IVF in 2013 600 quotas for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) were allocated for 350 thousand infertile families in Kazakhstan in 2013.

25 June 2013

Breast is best for getting ahead: study People breastfed as infants have a 24 percent better chance than their formula-fed counterparts of climbing the social ladder.

25 June 2013

'Dear Italy, I have left, but would return if...' As thousands of Italians leave the country to look for work elsewhere, one young journalist's blog claims to offer "a megaphone for this generation," a voice to all those who profess to be ready to return "if...".

25 June 2013

Pesticides tainting traditional China herbs: Greenpeace Traditional Chinese herbs are being contaminated with a toxic cocktail of pesticides that poses a threat to consumer health and the environment.

25 June 2013