Kazakhstan women ready to become surrogate mothers for $10 thousand
Kazakhstan women are ready to become surrogate mothers to carry and give birth to a child for childless couples for $10 to $30 thousand plus additional monthly payments.
Conspiracy theories fly as Poles mark presidential jet crash
Three years after a jet crash in Russia killed a Polish president and 95 other people, conspiracy theorists in Poland are as adamant as ever that it was an assassination.
American traveler reaches Aktau on foot
An American traveller has reached Aktau in western Kazakhstan as part of his round the world journey on foot.
Ex-British PM Margaret Thatcher dead at 87: spokesman
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" who shaped a generation of British politics, died following a stroke on Monday at the age of 87.
Work under way for exhuming poet Neruda's remains
Experts on Sunday started work on opening the tomb of Chilean Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, to uncover his remains and determine if he died of cancer or was poisoned.
Chilean poet Neruda to be exhumed Monday
The remains of Chilean Nobel prize winning poet Pablo Neruda will be exhumed Monday to determine if he died of cancer or was poisoned.
Chinese travellers are top spenders: UN tourism body
Chinese travellers are the world's biggest tourism spenders, splashing out a record $102 billion (78 billion euros) on trips abroad in 2012.
Kazakhstan's patient with artificial heart gets married
People who had surgeries on artificial heart implantation gathered in Astana to discuss problems of chronic cardiac insufficiency.
S. Africa's Desmond Tutu wins $1.7-mn Templeton Prize
Anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop of Cape Town, was on Thursday awarded the $1.7-million Templeton Prize for his lifelong work to promote "love and forgiveness".