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Flood victims give account of disaster in Karaganda Oblast
Kokpekty villagers talked about the homes they lost in the flood caused by a dam burst.
01 April 2014
Astana may soon have its first crematorium
An entrepreneur from Astana Valikhan Sabilov is planning to build a private crematorium in the capital.
31 March 2014
Six dead, one missing in S. Korea fishing boat fire
Six people died after jumping off a fishing boat that caught fire off a South Korean island on Monday, with efforts underway to rescue its missing captain, the coastguard said.
24 March 2014
China hit by new flood of dead pigs in river
Chinese authorities have found 157 dead pigs in a river, state media said Wednesday, a year after 16,000 carcasses were discovered in Shanghai's main waterway, underscoring the country's food safety problems.
19 March 2014
Australian police dig for 'multiple' baby graves at rural home
Police in Australia began digging up a rural property on Tuesday searching for what reports said were "multiple babies" in secret graves.
18 March 2014
Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott found dead in New York
L'Wren Scott, American fashion designer to the stars and long-time girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, was found dead at her New York apartment.
18 March 2014
Five babies a day left at Chinese city's 'baby hatch'
More than 260 unwanted children, most of them babies, have been abandoned in a Chinese "safe haven" in just over six weeks -- more than five a day -- since it opened in late January.
17 March 2014
Deceased organ donation: integrated database for Kazakhstan
Creation of an electronic donor database is suggested as one of the major steps in developing deceased organ donation in Kazakhstan.
15 March 2014
Sri Lanka family finds mass grave in garden
A Sri Lankan family has stumbled upon the remains of at least nine bodies buried in the garden of their home, police said Saturday, the latest mass grave to be discovered in the country's former war zone.
02 March 2014
17 bodies dumped in Mexico mass grave
Mexican authorities discovered at least 17 bodies dumped in an unmarked grave outside the western city of Guadalajara after arresting a suspected drug trafficker, a state prosecutor said Friday.
22 February 2014
Police, protesters wage 'war' in deadly Kiev clashes
Riot police launched a fresh assault on protesters in central Kiev early Wednesday, escalating a bloody standoff that has already left at least 18 people dead in a dramatic turning point for Ukraine's three-month political crisis.
19 February 2014
More bodies unearthed amid Mexico violence
More than a dozen bodies were unearthed in a troubled region of southwestern Mexico where the military also engaged in a deadly firefight that killed one person.
12 February 2014
Woman lay dead in Sydney house for nearly eight years
An elderly lady lay dead in her inner city home for nearly eight years before her skeletal remains were found, an inquest heard Thursday, in a case dubbed "the woman Sydney forgot" by local media.
06 February 2014
Search ends at Canada seniors home where fire killed 28
Canadian authorities on Monday called off a search for remains in the rubble of a Quebec retirement home ravaged by a fire that killed at least 28 people.
04 February 2014
Fears death toll could rise in Indonesia volcano eruption
Indonesian officials searched through thick ash for bodies Sunday after Mount Sinabung volcano erupted, killing at least 15 people.
03 February 2014
36 dead in air strikes on Syria's Aleppo: monitor
At least 36 people were killed Sunday in regime air strikes and aerial attacks with explosive-packed barrels on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
03 February 2014
Wolves in sheep clothing: possible involvement of foreign forces in Kiev
The press office of the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior posed a video of the shocking warfare-like protest.
23 January 2014
New whale stranding on notorious New Zealand beach
More than 50 pilot whales beached themselves Saturday on the same remote New Zealand coast where another 52 whales have either died or been put down in the past two weeks.
19 January 2014
Body of Indian minister's wife taken to hospital for autopsy
The body of the wife of an Indian minister, found dead in a luxury hotel days after accusing her husband on Twitter of being unfaithful, was moved to a hospital Saturday for an autopsy.
18 January 2014
17 bodies found after Laos air disaster: minister
Laos said Friday at least 17 bodies had been recovered after a plane plummeted into the Mekong River killing all on board in the country's worst known air disaster.
18 October 2013