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Central Asia looks to boost fledgling ski industry The season may be drawing to a close at Central Asian Kazakhstan's Chimbulak winter sports resort, but skiiers and snowboarders are still carving their way down.

04 April 2016 14:41

Hijacked Egyptian airliner lands in Cyprus A hijacker seized an Egyptian airliner and diverted it to Cyprus, before releasing all the passengers except four foreigners and the crew.

29 March 2016 14:56

Israel advises citizens to leave Turkey citing attack risk Israel advised its citizens to leave Turkey citing the potential for jihadist attacks.

28 March 2016 16:54

New 'Drowned Apostles' at popular Australia tourist site Researchers found five more columns under the sea to add up to the limestone stacks off the south coast of Australia known as the Twelve Apostles.

10 March 2016 15:09

Kazakhstan to introduce visa free entry for developed countries Kazakhstan plans to simplify visa procedures for 34 OECD countries, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Singapore and Monaco.

25 December 2015 18:10

Foreigners drawn to Myanmar's bone-crunching kickboxing A roar erupted at the Yangon ring as the home champion ploughed a right hook into his American opponent's face, crumpling him to the canvas in the opening round of the bone-crunching kickboxing bout.

25 December 2015 17:30

One dead, 26 hurt as car crashes into Las Vegas Strip sidewalk A woman with a toddler in her car rammed into pedestrians on the packed Las Vegas Strip Sunday, killing one person and injuring 26 others.

21 December 2015 13:35

Hard economic lessons as China's coal boom ends China's coal industry is now crippled by oversupply, but its companies are too big to fail.

09 December 2015 17:54

Russia-Turkey war of words escalates over downed warplane Moscow slapped sanctions on Ankara as the war of words over a downed Russian warplane escalated, with Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan warning Russia not to "play with fire".

28 November 2015 15:14

Turkey seeks to ease tensions after downing of Russian warplane President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought to play down tensions with Russia after Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane on the Syria border sparked fears among NATO allies of a wider conflict.

25 November 2015 17:21

Lavrov warns citizens off travel to Turkey as cancels visit Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recommended against Russians travelling to Turkey and cancelled his own planned visit after Ankara shot down a Russian fighter jet.

25 November 2015 16:12

Putin tells navy in Mediterranean to work with French 'as allies' President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian navy in the Mediterranean to establish contact with its French counterparts and work together "as allies" in a campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria.

18 November 2015 14:02

Russian jet crash puts Sharm resort staff on 'unpaid leave' The Russian plane crash in Egypt has forced Sharm el-Sheikh hotels to send dozens of staff on "unpaid leave" as tourist numbers dwindle, with tens of thousands of jobs at risk within months.

13 November 2015 17:54

Romania president meets with protesters as fire toll mounts Romania's president appealed for protesters' support in reforming the country, as the death toll rose to 45 from a horrific nightclub fire that brought down the government

09 November 2015 15:25

No emergency evacuation for 80,000 Russians still in Egypt: Moscow Nearly 80,000 Russians are currently vacationing in Egypt but there will be no emergency evacuation, with tourists set to return home when they want, an official told AFP.

07 November 2015 16:49

Russian plane black boxes point to 'attack', Putin halts flights Analysis of black boxes from the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt killing 224 people points to a bomb, sources close to the probe said, as Moscow halted flights to the country.

07 November 2015 12:38

'No politics please': Russians bury first Egypt crash victims Numb with grief, a young woman wept and called for her mother at a funeral in a small village in northwestern Russia for one of the victims of the plane crash inEgypt.

06 November 2015 15:53

True colours: China summit foments Taiwan's green-blue split The colours blue and green symbolise the rift between opposing political parties in Taiwan, an entrenched divide that polarises friends and families, with this weekend's historic China summit adding fuel to the fire.

06 November 2015 14:12

Obama says bomb may have caused Egypt plane crash US President Barack Obama raised the possibility that a bomb brought down a Russian plane that crashed over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

06 November 2015 12:34

France advises against non-essential travel to Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort France advised its nationals against all non-essential travel to Sharm el-Sheikh following the crash of a Russian passenger jet that took off from the Egyptian resort at the weekend.

06 November 2015 10:57