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Man drowns while rescuing his drowning daughter in western Kazakhstan A man has drowned while rescuing his drowning daughter in the Ural River, Atyrau Oblast, western Kazakhstan on August 20.

25 August 2014

Boarding school in decay in Karaganda A boarding school for visually impaired children in the city of Karaganda in central Kazakhstan is in decay.

25 August 2014

Russian poetry and Kazakh music heavyweights in gay smooch The recent Kazakhstani ad showing a Kazakh composer and a Russian poet kissing has generated an outpouring of discontent in Kazakhstan.

25 August 2014

Kazakhstan may remain dependent on Russian petroleum products through to 2019 As of now Russia accounts for 1/3 (1.36 million tons) of all the petrol consumed in Kazakhstan and for about 14% (0.7 million tons) of diesel fuel.

25 August 2014

Kazakh smartphone produced in China may enter international market Zerde smartphone designed by Kazakhs from Urumqi, China may enter the international market.

25 August 2014

Golovkin-Rubio unify middleweight titles: Winner to face Cotto Kazakhstani Gennady Golovkin (30-0, KOs 27) will face Mexican Antonio Rubio (59-6, KOs 51) in a unification fight.

25 August 2014

Dias Kadyrbayev to get no more than 7 year sentence after pleading guilty Kazakh student Dias Kadyrbayev has formally pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice in Boston bombings case two weeks before the trial.

25 August 2014

CSTO Secretary General meets with Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha has met with Yerlan Idrissov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.

25 August 2014

Germany should drive economic recovery in Europe: IMF chief IMF chief C. Lagarde wants Germany to play a bigger role in propelling economic recovery in Europe, suggesting that German wages should rise.

25 August 2014

Japanese PM visits Hiroshima after killer landslides Prime Minister pledged full support for victims of last week's massive landslides in Hiroshima, as he made his first visit to the Japanese city.

25 August 2014

Russia plans another aid convoy to Ukraine: Lavrov Moscow has informed Kiev that it intends to send a second humanitarian aid convoy into rebel-held eastern Ukraine in the coming days.

25 August 2014

Major 7.0-magnitude quake strikes Peru: USGS A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Peru Sunday, US experts said.

25 August 2014

'Game of Thrones' eyes Emmys glow With a staggering 19 nominations, royal feud saga "Game of Thrones" will cast a long shadow over Emmy awards.

25 August 2014

Fresh crisis as France's Hollande orders PM to form new cabinet France was thrown into fresh crisis after President Francois Hollande told his prime minister to form a new government.

25 August 2014

Thousands expected at funeral of slain black teen Thousands are expected on Monday to attend the funeral of the unarmed black teen shot dead by a white policeman in Missouri.

25 August 2014

Japan's Sony hit by cyber attack, bomb threat Japanese entertainment giant Sony said its online music and gaming sites came under a cyber attack by a hacker group.

25 August 2014

E-cigarettes should be banned for minors: US heart assn E-cigarettes should be subject to the same regulations as cigarettes and should not be sold to minors.

25 August 2014

President Nazarbayev on sanctions against Russia and their impact on Kazakhstan According to him, escalation of the situation in Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions are to have an adverse effect on the Eurasian Economic Union.

25 August 2014

Burger King plans to buy Canadian chain Tim Hortons Fast-food chain Burger King plans to buy chain Tim Hortons in an acquisition that will make it the world's third largest in the fast-food sector.

25 August 2014

Chinese media warn US over warplane interception China's state-run media warned Washington that Beijing could treat its surveillance flights as an "act of hostility"

25 August 2014