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Pop stars Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj sparkled at the MTV Europe Music Awards, held in the Scottish city of Glasgow for the first time.

• 10 ноября 2014, 18:07

Kazakhstan's capital Astana has entered the Smart21 Communities list.

• 29 октября 2014, 12:20

Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of Jewish children in Prague from the Nazis in the run-up to World War II, was given the Czech Republic's top honour.

• 29 октября 2014, 10:57

Girl's rights champion Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in history, won the World's Children's Prize.

• 29 октября 2014, 09:55

Kazakh film The Owners has been awarded two presigious awards, one in the United States, another in Poland.

• 27 октября 2014, 12:42

Award-winning US stage and screen actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the next Oscars show, organizers announced Wednesday.

• 16 октября 2014, 09:57

Novelist Richard Flanagan said he was ashamed to be Australian after winning the Man Booker Prize for his book "The Narrow Road to the Deep North".

• 15 октября 2014, 16:47

French cinema queen Catherine Deneuve said she was "pleased and touched" to accept a lifetime achievement award at the Mumbai Film Festival.

• 15 октября 2014, 11:24

Hip-hop newcomer Iggy Azalea dominated the shortlist for the American Music Awards with nods in six categories just months after her debut album.

• 14 октября 2014, 15:15

French economist Jean Tirole is a master of game theory and industrial organisation, who added a Nobel prize to a gleaming heap of honours for his work.

• 14 октября 2014, 13:20

The winner of the Nobel economics prize is notoriously hard to predict, but it's usually an American male opposed to big government and big spending.

• 11 октября 2014, 15:48

Education rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai dedicated her Nobel peace prize on Friday to "voiceless" children around the world.

• 11 октября 2014, 11:26

Patrick Modiano, a historical novelist haunted by France's painful experience of Nazi occupation and his own childhood wounds, won the Nobel Literature Prize.

• 09 октября 2014, 21:04

Japan celebrated three more Nobel prizes, including for a scientist remembered as the salaryman who stood up to a corporation -- and won.

• 09 октября 2014, 15:50

American record producer and musician Quincy Jones was bestowed with the Order of Arts and Letters, one of France's top cultural honours.

• 07 октября 2014, 13:58

British-American researcher John O'Keefe won the Nobel Medicine Prize with May-Britt and Edvard Moser, for discovering an "inner GPS" that helps the brain navigate.

• 07 октября 2014, 10:16

Awarding Nobels decades after the original scientific discovery could lead to the coveted prize becoming irrelevant.

• 05 октября 2014, 10:14

A record 73 restaurants have won stars in the 2015 New York City edition of the prestigious Michelin guide, 14 of them across the river in Brooklyn and Queens.

• 01 октября 2014, 14:39

Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian was over the moon when she won a 50,000-euro prize from a French foundation.

• 24 сентября 2014, 14:51

Blockbuster musical "The Lion King" was named the most successful production in history.

• 23 сентября 2014, 12:56