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©Reuters/Kacper Pempel France suspends pig imports from North America, Japan France has suspended imports of live pigs from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Japan to try to prevent the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus entering the country, the French agriculture ministry announced.
03 May 2014
Baurzhan Anderzhanov. Photo  ©astanaopera.kz Astana Opera's Anderzhanov to perform at German Aalto Musik-Theatre The lead singer of the Astana Opera Baurzhan Anderzhanov will sing in six performances of the German Aalto Musik-Theatre in Essen.
03 May 2014
Rolls-Royce says in talks to sell energy unit to Siemens German engineering giant Siemens, which is seeking to buy French firm Alstom's energy division, is in talks to purchase Rolls-Royce's energy production arm, the British aircraft engine maker said.
01 May 2014
Photo courtesy of Kazcosmos Kazakhstan's KazEOSat-1 satellite launch delayed over ventilation problems KazEOSat-1 satellite was not been launched on schedule from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana.
29 April 2014
G7 to impose new sanctions on Russia as Kiev warns of 'world war' The Group of Seven rich countries agreed Saturday to impose new sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, after Kiev accused Moscow of seeking to trigger a "third world war".
26 April 2014
Madina Basbayeva. Photo ©vk.com Kazakh ballerina to perform in Don Quixote in France French choreographer Charles Jude has invited the leading ballerina of the Astana Opera Madina Basbayeva to perform on the stage of the Bordeaux National Opera.
25 April 2014
Mirage-2000 fighter jets. ©Reuters/Pichi Chuang France to send fighter jets for NATO Baltics patrols Four French fighter jets will join NATO air patrols over the Baltics starting on Sunday, France's chief of defense staff said Wednesday during a visit to Washington.
24 April 2014
Mukhtar Ablyazov. © Tengrinews/Yaroslav Radlovskiy UK revokes Ablyazov's refugee status Great Britain has announced its decision to terminate the refugee status of a former Kazakhstan banker and minister accused of fraud and money laundering.
23 April 2014
Small French park becomes home for desperate Syrian families They ended up there penniless after wandering from country to country for months.
23 April 2014
Vienna's Versailles offers imperial hideaway Schoenbrunn Palace was Marie-Antoinette's summer childhood home and the beautiful and tragic Sissi's favoured residence. Mozart performed there as a child and Napoleon was so smitten he moved in -- twice.
23 April 2014
A view shows a car of the Orient Express train. ©Reuters/Charles Platiau Step aboard Orient Express for journey back in time The Orient Express lets out a whistle and a chug, just as it did 130 years ago when it pulled out of Paris's Gare de Strasbourg on its inaugural journey to Istanbul.
22 April 2014
Only 1 in 7 Japanese scientists are women: study Just a seventh of scientists in Japan are female, government figures show -- the lowest rate of any developed nation, despite being a record high for the country.
16 April 2014
Napoleon Bonaparte. Photo courtesy of growth.in.ua Lock of Napoleon's hair stolen in Australia A lock of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair and other "priceless" artefacts linked to the French emperor have been stolen from a museum in Australia, police said.
16 April 2014
©Reuters/Michaela Rehle Mass DNA tests at French school to find rapist More than 500 male students and staff were to give DNA samples in an unprecedented operation launched Monday to uncover who raped a 16-year-old girl in the toilets of a French school.
14 April 2014
French Jewish group urges Hitler furniture auction ban France's main Jewish body on Sunday called for the cancellation of an auction of Adolf Hitler and Nazi air force chief Hermann Goering's personal effects due in Paris next month.
14 April 2014
©Reuters/Vincent Kessler Cannes film festival prepares to unveil its A-list Cannes film festival organisers will on Thursday fire the starting gun for this year's Riviera movie extravaganza when they unveil the films chosen to compete for its top Palme d'Or prize.
13 April 2014
Carla Bruni 'crazy about Israel' ahead of Tel Aviv show France's former first lady Carla Bruni declared herself "crazy about Israel" and talked about Jewish family ties in an interview published by an Israeli daily.
13 April 2014
French lawyer convicted of murdering heiress after 36 years A former Riviera lawyer was convicted on Friday of killing a glamorous casino heiress 36 years ago, after a legal battle that has gripped France.
12 April 2014
With one tweet, Hollande's ex puts pressure on Mexico trip The French leader's jilted ex-girlfriend has stepped back into the limelight with a tweet urging Paris to help a woman who says her Mexican ex-husband abducted their children, just as Francois Hollande visits Mexico.
10 April 2014
Mukhtar Ablyazov. ©Tengrinews/Yaroslav Radlovskiy French court blocks extradition of Kazakh tycoon Ablyazov On Wednesday a French court of appeal blocked the extradition of exiled Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, who wanted for embezzlement of around $6 billon in Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.
10 April 2014

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