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Transparent film uses light to power phone batteries
A transparent film that costs just one euro ($1.30) to make could bring an end to the anguish of mobile phone users facing the dreaded dead-battery message.
26 February 2013
Boxing: Italia Thunder defeat Astana Arlans 4:1
Kazakhstan Roman Shegrinov, Asset Aysin, Yelik Abdraimov and Estonian Ainar Karlson lost to Dolce & Gabbana Italia Thunder’s boxers.
25 February 2013
Centre-left favoured as Italy holds landmark election
Italy on Monday holds a second day of voting in a critical election for the future of the eurozone in which the centre-left Democratic Party is expected to win but fall short of a governing majority.
25 February 2013
French Foreign Minister to visit Kazakhstan
An official visit of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to Kazakhstan is scheduled for March 1-2, 2013.
25 February 2013
Tennis: Galina Voskoboyeva wins WTA Memphis International Doubles
Kazakhstan Galina Voskoboyeva paired with Kristina Mladenovic won over Johanna Larsson/Sofia Arvidsson duo in the final match.
25 February 2013
Turkey blasts Assad regime as Aleppo toll rises
Turkey lashed out against Syria as the death toll from a missile strike on Aleppo rose to 58 Sunday, while a US official urged the opposition to reconsider its boycott of international meetings.
25 February 2013
Firefox smartphone system challenges Android, iOS
Mozilla Foundation announced Sunday it will launch in mid 2013 its widely anticipated Firefox operating system for smartphones in a direct challenge to the duopoly of Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
25 February 2013
Lightning-fast mobile hits speed bump in Europe
Lightning-fast fourth generation mobile networks are spreading rapidly worldwide, led by the United States, Japan and South Korea, but Europe lags behind and its economic crisis could brake investment.
25 February 2013
Will the next pope be Italian?
After a Pole and a German, will the Roman Catholic Church revert to an Italian leader once again?
25 February 2013
The steamy art of Latvia's ritual saunas
Lying face down in deep snow, naked, in bone chilling sub-zero weather is enough to make anyone think twice.
24 February 2013
Versace goes wild with dominatrix punk in Milan
Italian fashion icon Donatella Versace brought her own spin to punk on Friday, unveiling a collection dominated by fierce outfits in shiny black, white, or lipstick red vinyls and deadly accessories.
24 February 2013
Germany returns lost ancient artifacts to Kosovo
Kosovo's culture minister on Friday said Germany had returned seven millennia-old artefacts that were smuggled out during the 1998-1999 war with Serbia and were unexpectedly found in a German police raid.
24 February 2013
France tops US in women on corporate boards: study
France has overtaken the United States in placing women on the boards of the world's 200 largest companies.
23 February 2013
'Amour' triumphs at French Cesars
Michael Haneke's Oscar-nominated film "Amour" about a man and his dying wife on Friday scooped the top prizes at France's annual film awards, the Cesars.
23 February 2013
Britain loses AAA rating in Moody's downgrade
Moody's stripped Britain of its triple-A debt rating Friday, saying government debt was still mounting and that growth was too weak to reverse the trend before 2016.
23 February 2013
US executive blasts 'extremist' French government
An outspoken American CEO criticized France's government anew Thursday, but praised French women and wine and said that he himself was named after the iconic crooner Maurice Chevalier.
23 February 2013
Rompetrol to get full control over Rompetrol Rafinare
Kazakhstan-owned Rompetrol and Romanian government signed a Memorandum of understanding on disputes settlement over Rompetrol Refinare.
22 February 2013
Uncertainty hangs heavy as Italy braces for elections
Italy was poised to hold its most important elections in a generation starting on Sunday, as financial markets warned an unclear outcome could plunge the eurozone's third economy back into crisis.
22 February 2013
French kidnap victims likely separated as search pushes on
A kidnapped French family of seven has likely been separated into two groups by their abductors, France said Thursday, as Nigerian security forces combed restive border areas to find them.
22 February 2013
Historic week looms for Vatican with papal resignation
Pope Benedict XVI's final Sunday prayers in St Peter's Square will signal the start of a week in the Vatican that will make history with the first voluntary papal resignation in more than 700 years.
22 February 2013
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