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Former Kazakh PM under house arrest on corruption charges Former Prime Minister of Kazakhstan and ex-Defense Minister Serik Akhmetov has been put under house arrest on corruption related charges.

20 November 2014

Surgeons remove pencil from boy's chest in Kazakhstan Kazakhstani surgeons have removed a pencil from the chest of a 10 y.o. boy.

19 November 2014

Kazakhstani team to compete with Apple Desktop computers capable of competing with Apple's iMac will be produced in Kazakhstan.

19 November 2014

Customs Union may ban food additive that keeps fruits fresh The Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan may ban E912 food additive that makes fruits look shinier and keeps them fresh longer.

19 November 2014

Zhapparkul and Goricheva bring bronze and silver Weightlifter Zhazira Zhapparkul brought Kazakhstan a bronze medal in snatch at the IWF World Championships in Almaty.

19 November 2014

Explosion in Almaty college: Why was the grenade real? An explosion of a grenade in Almaty college in southern Kazakhstan killed a student. It also injured 12 others, some of whom remain in critical condition. But how could a real grenade replace a model in a basic military training classroom?

19 November 2014

India's Modi in Fiji to meet Pacific leaders Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted by cheering crowds clamouring for selfies when he visited Fiji.

19 November 2014

Samsung scraps unit merger on shareholder opposition South Korea's Samsung scrapped a merger between two major units, citing the spiralling cost of buying back stock from shareholders opposed to the deal.

19 November 2014

Joe Biden leaves on Ukraine, Turkey, Morocco tour US Vice President Joe Biden departed on a five-day tour of Ukraine, Turkey and Morocco, with the ongoing struggle between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels.

19 November 2014

Sister's boyfriend arrested in search for Miss Honduras Officials arrested a suspect in the disappearance of the reigning Miss Honduras, Maria Jose Alvarado, whose sister's boyfriend is now being heldю

19 November 2014

IMF, World Bank policies may share blame in Ebola crisis Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, had just called for an increase in the country's budget deficit so that it could battle Ebola.

19 November 2014

With two years left, Obama prepares to go it alone Barack Obama has only two years left in office but he is not ready to slow down.

19 November 2014

Tags on fish may act as 'dinner bell' for seals: study Sound-emitting tags fitted to fish to track their survival may, paradoxically, be alerting predator seals to their whereabouts.

19 November 2014

US Senate rejects Keystone pipeline by one vote The US Senate narrowly rejected a bill that would have approved construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to bring crude oil to Gulf coast refineries.

19 November 2014

Irate Mexico president on defensive over mansion Mexico's under-fire President Enrique Pena Nieto defended his wife's controversial purchase of a mansion owned by a government contractor.

19 November 2014

Almaty struggles to reduce CO2 emissions Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan but the ecological damage from the city's growing vehicle usage exacerbated by the lack of high-quality public transport hangs like a smog over the country's cultural capital.

19 November 2014

New York's Times Square gets huge digital billboard New York's Times Square will be illuminated by the world's highest resolution video display screen of its size -- nearly as big as a football field.

19 November 2014

Take two from U2 with film version of album U2, who faced mockery for sending their album for free to iTunes' half billion users, are back with a new experiment -- a film version by leading urban artists.

19 November 2014

Obama says Ebola fight far from over in W. Africa US President Barack Obama warned that the fight to stem the Ebola outbreak was far from over in West Africa.

19 November 2014

Small volcanoes could slow global warming: study Small volcanic eruptions could be slowing global warming by spewing sulfur aerosols that reach the upper atmosphere and reflect sunlight away from the Earth.

19 November 2014