Olympics: Fashion wins few medals in London
Designer Giorgio Armani predicted that the London Olympics would be the most stylish ever, but fashion experts say there has been as much bad taste as elegance on display.
Clinton arrives in Turkey for key Syria talks
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Saturday in Istanbul for talks on the conflict in Syria with Turkish leaders after Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Bashar al-Assad's regime and its allies.
Olympics: Most Britons say Games worth the cost - poll
Most Britons believe the London Olympics have delivered good value for money, according to a poll published Saturday, as the hosts revel in Britain's best performance at the Games for more than a century.
US nuns ready to talk with Vatican after rebuke
American nuns in open conflict with the Vatican over claims they have "radical feminist" views and have strayed too far from Catholic doctrine offered Friday to talk with top Church leaders.
Ivan Dychko won boxing bronze at Olympics
Kazakhstan boxer Ivan Dychko won the bronze medal of the +91 kg heavyweight division at the Olympics in London.
Olympics: Bolt targets record in Olympic finale
Usain Bolt is targeting a spectacular send-off as the Olympic track and field competition draws to a close on Saturday with Jamaica aiming to seal their sprinting supremacy.
Boxer Niyazimbetov reached Olympics final
Adilbek Niyazimbetov, Kazakhstan boxer in the -81 kg weight division, reached the final of the boxing competition at the Olympics.
Serik Sapiyev reaches Olimpic boxing final
Kazakhstan boxer Serik Sapiyev has reached the final of the boxing competition in light welterweight (-69 kg) division at the Olympics in London.
Olympics: London mayor turns Games into political gold
London mayor Boris Johnson has had a golden political Olympics, emerging for the first time as a serious contender for prime minister despite -- or perhaps because of -- his clownish antics.
Olympics: 2012 Games a world away from London 1948
The razzmatazz of the London 2012 Olympics is a world away from the last Games held in London in 1948, when athletes had to survive on rations, stitch their own kit and wash it themselves.
230,000 trees to be planted along Western Europe – Western China highway
It is planned to plant 231 thousand saplings instead of the trees that were cut down along Western Europe - Western China highway.
Swiss algorithm tracks crime, rumours, epidemics to source
Scientists in Switzerland said on Friday they had devised software that can swiftly trace terror suspects, computer viruses, rumour-mongering and even infectious diseases back to their source.
Manchester United slashes price for US IPO
Britain's world-renowned football club Manchester United slashed the price of its US share launch, cutting the amount it was raising in Friday's IPO to $233 million from a hoped-for $300 million or more.
Olympics: Bolt targets double dose of golden glory
Usain Bolt can become the first man to claim a second successive 100m-200m Olympic Games double on Thursday with the Jamaican superstar confidently predicting his own 200m world record could fall.
Long-haul travel boosts illness risk for athletes -- study
The questions arising from a new probe which says elite athletes who have to travel very long distances are nearly three times likelier to fall ill than when they play at home.
Jamiroquai to perform in Almaty on City Day
British band Jamiroquai is expected to come to Almaty on September 15 to congratulate Almaty on its City Day.
Olympics: Adilbek Niyazymbetov reached semifinals of boxing tournament
Kazakhstan's Adilbek Niyazymbetov has reached the semifinals of the London Olympics boxing tournament by winning over Iran's Ehsan Rouzbahani.
'Preferential shares' scandal ruins Spanish savers
The bank called them "preferential stakes", but Inocencio Merino would prefer to have avoided them.
Olympics: Closing ceremony 'camp and cheesy': music director
The London Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday will be a "beautiful, cheeky, cheesy, camp, silly and thrilling" journey through British pop history.
Tongan wreck may be pirate treasure ship: official
Divers in Tonga have discovered a shipwreck believed to be a pirate vessel that folklore says sank in the 19th century with a hold full of treasure, officials in the Pacific nation said Thursday.