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Turkmenistan changes constitution to extend leader's rule Turkmenistan passed constitutional changes to prolong the presidential term of office.

14 September 2016

Boxing: Golovkin eyes Saunders after stopping Brook The world's top-ranked middleweight Gennady Golovkin wants another fight in Britain after stopping Kell Brook and is targeting a unification bout with Billy Joe Saunders.

13 September 2016

Kazakhstan makes former deputy PM new prime minister Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev promoted a former deputy premier to succeed longtime ally prime minister Karim Massimov.

13 September 2016

Kazakhstan shifts PM to security chief Kazakhstan's ageing President Nursultan Nazarbayev shifted longtime ally Karim Massimov from prime minister to security chief.

13 September 2016

Oil prices gain despite rising OPEC supply forecast Oil prices on the rise joining the positive movement on equities markets despite a new forecast from producing countries for 2017.

13 September 2016

US to give Philippines military planes The United States is giving the Philippines two used military aircraft in the face of territorial disputes with China.

07 September 2016

Iran president calls on Muslims to punish Saudi 'crimes' Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called Wednesday on the Muslim world to unite and punish the Saudi government.

07 September 2016

Study of exhaust particles hints at Alzheimer's risk Microscopic particles, possibly from air pollution, have been found in human brain tissue, according to a new study into Alzheimer's risk.

06 September 2016

Strongman's death stirs uncertainty in Uzbekistan and region The death of Uzbek leader Islam Karimov after 27 years in charge with no clear successor lined up plunges his homeland into uncertainty.

05 September 2016

Kazakhstan cafe kicks stigma with mentally disabled staff 40-person staff is exclusively composed of patients from local psychiatric institutions in Training Cafe in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

05 September 2016

Crowdfunding site launches in Singapore and Hong Kong Kickstarter made its Asia debut in Singapore and Hong Kong, giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to raise funding from global investors.

01 September 2016

EU Chamber urges China to lift foreign investment curbs A European lobby group in China on Thursday slammed the country's unequal investment landscape.

01 September 2016

New fossils show life on Earth at least 3.7bn years old Life on Earth is even older than we though - fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years have been discovered.

01 September 2016

Kazakhstan arrests 21 suspected of plotting terrorist attacks Kazakhstan has arrested 21 members of radical groups plotting terror attacks in public places.

31 August 2016

iPhone spyware spotlights Israel's secretive surveillance industry The discovery of sophisticated spyware to infiltrate and remotely take control of iPhones put a spotlight on Israel's surveillance industry.

29 August 2016

Goat polo, tug-of-war as Central Asia readies for Nomad Games In a melee of hooves and hands, a scrum of horseriders on the plains of Central Asia wrestle to get control of the ball.

29 August 2016

Singapore wages war on Zika-bearing mosquitoes Singapore officials went door-to-door Monday to wipe out mosquitoes after the discovery of 41 locally transmitted cases of Zika virus.

29 August 2016

Bogan, ranga, rurosexual added to Australian dictionary Heading Down Under where locals are "dry as a dead dingo's donger" and beachgoers don "budgie smugglers"?

25 August 2016

Italy quake death toll nears 250 The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to 247 on Thursday amid fears many more corpses would be found.

25 August 2016

Viral photos add fuel to French burkini debate An angry debate over a ban on burkinis in France was further stoked by images of a veiled woman surrounded by police on a beach in Nice.

25 August 2016