News about death

Kazakh officials discuss connection between Proton launches and saiga deaths Is there a connection between the mass die-out of saigas in Kazakhstan and rocket launches from Baikonur cosmodrome?

31 May 2015

SUV crashes into kindergarten playground killing a 5 y.o. girl and injuring 8 children in Almaty Black Toyota Land Cruiser has crashed into a kindergarten playground killing a five-year-old child in Almaty’s Taugul 1 Mikroraion.

29 May 2015

B.B. King death probed as homicide after poison claim: coroner Las Vegas police have launched a homicide investigation into the death of B.B. King, a coroner's office.

26 May 2015

70 Dalmatian pelicans found dead in western Kazakhstan 70 Dalmatian pelicans have been found dead in Atyrau Oblast in western Kazakhstan.

25 May 2015

'Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash killed in US car crash Nobel Prize-winning US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the film "A Beautiful Mind," was killed with his wife in a New Jersey car crash.

25 May 2015

Memphis plans send-off for 'King of the Blues' Memphis, Tennessee, where guitar legend B.B. King started his career, will mourn the late King of the Blues with a procession next week before his burial in his native Mississippi.

22 May 2015

B.B. King service in Vegas before Mississippi return Fans will pay last respects to B.B. King in Las Vegas before the blues legend returns to be buried in his native Mississippi.

19 May 2015

Blues legend B.B. King, 89, mourned by music world Blues legend B.B. King, whose crisp, powerful guitar licks made him among the instrument's greatest masters and a towering influence for generations of musicians, has died at 89.

16 May 2015

Kazakhstan to render aid to Nepal: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kazakhstan will render assistance to Nepal.

04 May 2015

'Stand By Me' singer Ben E. King dead at 76 Ben E. King, the soul singer whose Gospel-influenced "Stand By Me" became one of the most broadcast songs of the 20th century, has died at 76.

02 May 2015

Dead worker found under collapsed bridge in Almaty, investigation launched A bridge under construction collapses in Almaty, kills one and injures 20 others, bringing safety at Kazakhstan's construction sites and industries into spotlight.

01 May 2015

Australia PM hails Gallipoli soldiers on Anzac Day Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Saturday hailed the sacrifice of the thousands of soldiers from Australia and New Zealand killed in the Battle of Gallipoli.

25 April 2015

Kenya officials suspended over university massacre Nine Kenyan officials have been suspended and could face charges of criminal negligence over the massacre at Garissa university earlier this month.

22 April 2015

Another ally of Ukraine ex-president Yanukovych found dead A former Ukraine deputy was shot dead in Kiev, the fourth ally of ousted pro-Moscow ex-president Viktor Yanukovych to die in suspicious circumstances.

16 April 2015

Italian fashion designer Francesco Smalto dies at 87 Italian designer Francesco Smalto, who as one of the stars of the men's fashion industry clothed princes, has died in Morocco aged 87.

07 April 2015

Nazarbayev expresses condolence over Russian trawler President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has expressed condolence to the Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Dalniy Vostok trawler that sunk in the Western Pacific Ocean.

03 April 2015

At least 54 dead in trawler sinking off Russia'a Far East Rescuers were searching freezing waters off Russia's Far East after a fishing boat sank in the Sea of Okhotsk with the loss of at least 54 lives.

02 April 2015

Kazakh PM Karim Massimov attends funeral of Lee Kuan Yew Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov has attended the state funeral service for the founding father of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew.

01 April 2015

Death toll in Chile floods rises to 18 At least 18 people were killed in flash floods that hit a normally arid region of northern Chile last week, and about the same number remain missing.

31 March 2015